Arbejder Sport Aarhus Fodbold, commonly known as ASA Fodbold, is the

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

department of the multi-sports club ASA, based in the neighbourhood of

Frederiksbjerg Frederiksbjerg is a borough in Aarhus, Denmark. Frederiksbjerg is part of the postal district Aarhus C and is located just south of the historical city centre, separated from it by a broad railway yard and connected by three bridges. Despite bein ...

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

, Denmark. Founded in 1933, the club mainly features football. Currently, the ASA's first men's team plays in the

Denmark Series The Denmark Series () is the fifth tier in the Danish football league system. Teams are divided into four groups of ten. The top team in each following promotion group is promoted to the Danish 3rd Division. The bottom three teams in each group ...

, the fifth tier of the

Danish football league system The Danish football league system, also known as the football league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league structure for association football in Denmark, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotio ...

, after reaching successive promotions in 2019 and 2021. ASA is the largest football club within '' Ringgaden'' (Ring 1) in Aarhus, defining the inner city. This led to the club's nickname, ''"Klubben i centrum"'' ("The club in the centre"). The club has around 250 senior members and 320 youth members, making it one of the larger clubs in

History

In the 1930s, the

Social Democrats Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, s ...

had, as part of their cultural policy, which included a goal to end "

bourgeoisie The bourgeoisie ( , ) are a class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people, in general, which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between the peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted wi ...

" elite sports, formed ''Dansk Arbejder Idræt'' (DAI). In short, the workers could meet each other under friendly conditions, and had loosely organised people to travel around the country to start workers' clubs. This is how ASA also started. ASA stands for Arbejder Sport Aarhus ("Worker's Sports Aarhus") and was founded after a month diligent agitation in the social democrat newspaper ''Demokraten''. Subsequently, the

Social Democratic Youth of Denmark The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark (, DSU) is the national youth wing of the Danish Social Democrats (Denmark), Social Democrats. It is not to be confused with Frit Forum, which is for those in higher education, and whose membership is not re ...

called De Unges Idræt og Arbejdernes Oplysnings Forbund ("Youth Sports and the Workers' Enlightenment Association") to convene at the founding general assembly on 22 April 1933. Approximately 200 people had turned up to become members, and already the following week the first practice started on an allotted track between Aarhus Municipal Hospital and Nordre Cemetery. The

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was DKK 1 per month and 50 øre for the unemployed. The club's social democratic background quickly helped provide grounds and pitches for football. One of ASA's first chairmen was

Orla Hyllested Orla Schartau Hyllested (4 August 1912 – 6 September 2000) was a Danish union representative, politician and mayor of Aarhus. Hyllested grew up in Aarhus in a working-class family and was a trained mason. Through his work he became involved in ...

, who later became Mayor of

. As a result of the above social democrat connections, ASA already moved to its current grounds at the borough of

in 1934–35.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:ASA Fodbold Football clubs in Denmark Association football clubs established in 1933 1933 establishments in Denmark Sport in Aarhus