Brønshøj BK, full name Brønshøj Boldklub, is a Danish
football
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club located in the outskirts of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
. The club was founded on 15 May 1919.
History
Early years
Brønshøj BK's first decades were spent in local leagues in the Copenhagen area, and also saw mergers with other local teams, although always retaining the name Brønshøj Boldklub.
Brønshøj Boldklub had their first appearance in
Danmarksturneringen (the national league system) in the season of 1944–45 after winning a qualification group, and the team has continuously since then been a part of the
Danmarksturneringen. The next decade was spent yo-yoing between the two lower tiers, the team almost getting demoted out of the league system in the season of 1952–53. They were saved only by a marginally better goal difference than
Hvidovre IF
Hvidovre Idrætsforening, more commonly known as Hvidovre IF () is a Danish association football club from Hvidovre, Capital Region of Denmark. The club competes in the Danish 1st Division, the second tier of Danish football, and plays its ...
.
Division 1
The late 1950s saw the team make a positive turn around, first winning the 3rd tier in 1955–56, and then winning the 2nd tier in 1961, thereby entering the 1st tier (1. division) for the first time ever in 1962. Relegation followed in 1964. The team stuck in 2. division for a handful of seasons being runners up in 1969, and thus getting promoted to 1.division yet again. The stay in the highest league lasted three seasons.
This part of the century in a way marked the best days of Brønshøj BK. The team did not make the top of the 1st tier, but they were relatively competitive in the league due to the strict code of
amateurism
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that Danish football was under at the time. The team also managed to make it to the semifinals of the Danish Cup three times, and additionally about a dozen players appeared on the national team.
The peak
The team was again yo-yoing between the two lower tiers for several seasons, before two consecutive promotions again saw them a place in the 1st tier (1.division) in 1983.
Brønshøj BK reached its peak in the season of 1984 under the guidance of manager
Ebbe Skovdahl
Ebbe Skovdahl Hansen (5 July 1945 – 23 October 2020) was a Danish football manager. He most prominently was a successful manager at Brøndby, for whom he had also played in his active years. He helped turn the side into the most dominant Danis ...
, when the team finished in 5th place in 1. division, the club's all-time highest. The club was relegated from the 1. division in 1989, and has not since then been represented in the highest tier.
The explanation for this last fact could be that in the meantime, the national league system had undergone a dramatic change, with the introduction of professional football in 1978.
Brønshøj BK did (and do) sign contracts with some of their players, but they have never featured a full-time professional squad, so even today, this is meaningful as it shows an economical responsibility that has kept the club free from the bankruptcies, overstretching of budgets and mergings, that has been the fate of several other Danish teams over the years. At the same time though, the shown responsibility has made it increasingly hard to compete with the top-flight teams.
Recent years
The team has been going up and down between the two lower tiers since 1990, although having had a string of seasons in the 2nd tier from 2010–11 to 2014–15 under the auspices of manager
Bo Henriksen. This after winning the 3rd tier (2. division-East) in 2009/10.
Brønshøj Boldklub is currently participating in the 3rd tier after relegation in 2015. The team only narrowly escaped demotion from the national league system in 2018, with a win in the last match of the season against
Greve Fodbold.
Notable players
* Most appearances:
Brian Kaus, 350 appearances in all. (1985–90, 1996–2004)
* Most goals: Kaj Petterson, 314 goals. (1938–54)
* Preben (Benny) Arentoft: played 96 games, 1961-65; club manager, 1974-79. Became the first Danish footballer to win a European cup title when Newcastle United (England) won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969.
National team
11 players in all have represented Brønshøj BK on the
Danish national team, almost all of them in the period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The last player to represent the club on the Danish national team was
Kent Nielsen in 1986.
In 2018 Brønshøj BK was represented by 2 players on the
Gambia national football team
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.
First representative on a national team: Ove Andersen in 1955.
Most caps:
Per Røntved, 21 matches from 1970 to 1972. (He had 75 caps overall)
Current squad
''As of 15 March 2025''
Achievements
* 14 ''seasons'' in the ''
Highest Danish League''
* 32 ''seasons'' in the ''
Second Highest Danish League''
* 20 ''seasons'' in the ''
Third Highest Danish League''
Brønshøj BK has made it to the semi-finals of the
Landspokalturneringen (the equivalent of the English FA cup) four times. That was in the seasons of 1955/56, 1957/58, 1960/61 and 1987/88.
Supporters
The official fan club of Brønshøj BK is called Hvepsene (lit. "The Wasps"), and make up the majority of fans of the team, and arrange bus trips for away matches, family days with the team, and the like.
Brønshøj BK has only one known
ultra group, Brønshøj Drunken Army, a nominally left-wing and anti-racist firm that supports the team standing up throughout the match with chants, songs and dance.
As of November 2011, Hvepsene and BDA made the largest
tifo
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''Tifo'' are most commonly seen in ...
in the Danish 1st Division that year
Største tifo i 1. division
References
External links
Brønshøj Boldklubnbsp;– official site
Brønshøj Boldklubnbsp;– clubfacts at the
Danish Football Association
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's database (archived 27 September 2007)
Doctor Brønshøjnbsp;– Independent supporters' site with summary in English (archived 28 September 2007)
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Football clubs in Denmark
Association football clubs established in 1919
1919 establishments in Denmark
Football clubs in Copenhagen