Sports Club Egedal (; simply known as SC Egedal or SCE) was a Danish

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club from

Egedal Egedal Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark. It covers an area of with a total population of 45,563 (1. January 2025). History On 1 January 2007 Egedal municipality was created as the result ...

which was founded on 1 July 2011. The club was the result of a partial merger between the women's and men's senior teams of Stenløse Boldklub and

Ølstykke FC Ølstykke Fodbold Club af 1918 ; also known as Ølstykke FC or ØFC) is an association football club based in the town of Ølstykke on Zealand, Denmark. The men's team competes in the Zealand Series, one of the sixth tiers of the Danish football l ...

. At the extraordinary general assemblies of the two parent clubs in January and February 2011, the members of the clubs voted by a large majority to merge the two senior departments, and the

Danish Football Association The Danish Football Association (; DBU) is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues, alongside the men's and women's national teams. Based ...

(DBU) approved the partial merger on 2 April 2011. The

Zealand Zealand ( ) is the largest and most populous islands of Denmark, island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size) at 7,031 km2 (2715 sq. mi.). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 Januar ...

-based team played their home matches at Ølstykke Stadium, which has a total capacity of 3,000 spectators (of which 752 seated). The club was a member of DBU and the local football association,

DBU Zealand DBU Zealand () is the local governing body for association football and futsal on Zealand, Denmark. They are responsible for the governance and development of men's and women's football at all levels in the region. DBU Zealand is a member of the Un ...

, and played in red jersey, navy blue shorts and navy blue socks. The club's logo symbolized the

Veksø helmets The Veksø helmets (or Viksø helmets) are a pair of Bronze Age ceremonial horned helmets found near Veksø in Zealand, Denmark. Overview In 1942 a workman was digging (c. 0.7m below the moss surface) at a peat bog extraction site in Brøns Mose ...

, which are unique to both Egedal's local history and Danish cultural perception. The two helmets can be dated to the Late

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, approximately 1,000 to 800 BC. After a historically strong

Danish 2nd Division The 2nd Division () is a professional association football league for men and the third division in Denmark. It is organised by the Divisionsforeningen on behalf of the Danish Football Association (Danish FA; DBU) as part of the nation-wide Da ...

East group in 2011–12, SC Egedal suffered relegation to the fourth-tier

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 ...

(2012–13) despite achieving 32 points and a goal score of only −3. Despite the relegation, SC Egedal managed to hold on to a core group of players, and mixed with a larger group of young talents from Team Egedal, the red-blues managed to return to the higher divisions after only a season's absence. The team won the Denmark Series Group 2 ahead of GVI on goal difference, to which especially Thomas Wagner was a major contributor with no less than 40 season goals. The following season in the 2nd Division East 2013–14 was one long battle for avoiding relegation, and the team eventually had to see themselves suffered relegation to the Denmark Series again at the end of the season. At the start of the new season, SC Egedal dismissed head coach Jimmy Kastrup on 6 October 2014, after disappointing results, and the club ended the season as 11th in the league table. On 24 February 2015, Stenløse Boldklub held an extraordinary general meeting, where it was decided that at the end of the season, Stenløse Boldklub would withdraw from SC Egedal. This meant that the club was dissolved as of 30 June 2015,Stenløse Boldklub kører solo
/ref> and that Stenløse Boldklub had to continue the upcoming season in the fifth-tier

Zealand Series Zealand Series () is the highest division for men organized by the regional association DBU Sjælland and one of the sixth-highest divisions overall in the Danish football league system. The Zealand Association Football Championship () was intro ...

while

had to compete in the DBU Zealand Series 3, the eight-tier in 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 ...

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