Akademisk Boldklub Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (or AB) is a Danish professional football club from Gladsaxe north of Copenhagen, currently playing at the 3rd highest level of Danish domestic football in the Danish 2nd Division group 1. The club was established on ...

are a Danish professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club based in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, who currently play in the Danish 1st Division. They have played at their current home ground, the

Gladsaxe Stadium Gladsaxe Stadium ( da, Gladsaxe Stadion) is a sports center located on Gladsaxevej 200, Søborg, Gladsaxe Municipality, in Copenhagen, which is primarily used for association football matches. The stadium hosts a number of training courses for ...

, since 1938, but were founded much earlier, in 1889. They were one of the founding clubs of

the Football Tournament The Football Tournament ( da, Fodboldturneringen) was a Danish football tournament played 14 times in the years 1889–1903. The tournament was played under the auspices of the Danish Football Association, and was contested by the best Danish teams ...

in 1889. Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally-organised competitions. All players who have played in 25 or more such matches are listed below. Players are listed according to the date of their first professional contract signed with the club. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only; wartime matches are excluded, substitute appearances are included. The all-time appearance record is held by former

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international sweeper

René Henriksen René Henriksen (born 27 August 1969) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender for Danish club Akademisk Boldklub and Panathinaikos in Greece. Henriksen was capped 66 times for the Danish national team, and he repres ...

, who amassed 339 appearances in two spells with the club, first from 1988 to 1999, and then for one further season in 2005–06 after a six season tenure in Greece with

Panathinaikos Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos ( el, Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club ba ...

. Despite playing in a defensive role, Henriksen also holds the goalscoring record, with 42 goals. His nearest challenger in either field is former

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international striker Abdul Sule, with 137 appearances and 30 goals between 2000 and 2004. Nicolai Stokholm also has 137 appearances.

List of players

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