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| Full name | Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Akademikerne (The Academics) | ||
| Short name | AB | ||
| Founded | 1889 | ||
| Ground | Gladsaxe Stadium, Gladsaxe | ||
| Capacity | 13,507 (7,707 seated) | ||
| Chairman | Brian Joseph Grieco | ||
| Manager | Joey Guðjónsson | ||
| League | Danish 2nd Division | ||
| 2023–24 | 5th of 12 | ||
| Website | https://ab-fodbold.dk/ | ||
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Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (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 February 26, 1889, through a merger of Frederiksberg Studenternes Kricketklub and Polyteknisk Boldklub. AB is nine time Danish Champions, eight time Copenhagen Champions, one time Danish Cup Champions and six times Copenhagen Cup Champions, and the club is thus one of the most successful in Danish football.
The club has training and club facilities in Bagsværd north of Copenhagen and plays its home matches at Gladsaxe Stadium, also called Stade de Lundberg, named after one of the club's pioneers, Knud Lundberg.
Since the foundation, AB has played in a green and white kit and had an owl as mascot. The club's official fan club is named AB Forever and was founded in 1995.
AB is one of the oldest football clubs in Denmark and is originally from Copenhagen. Here the club had training facilities on Østerbro from 1903 to 1922. From 1923 to 1965 the club had training facilities on Nørrebro. In 1965, AB moved to Gladsaxe where the club belongs today. Most of the club's titles were won in the time in Copenhagen, especially in the 1890s and the 1940s.
The club participated in the foundation of the Danish Football Association in 1889 and has over the years developed many football players who have played on the Denmark national team, including Harald Bohr, Karl Aage Hansen, Knud Lundberg, Kresten Bjerre and René Henriksen. Harald Bohr's brother, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr, did not make it to the national team, but indeed played for the club, as a goalkeeper.[1]
- ^ "National service for footballers". The Guardian. 2005-07-27. Archived from the original on 2023-05-27.