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| Full name | Football Club København | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Byens Hold (The Team of the City); The Lions | |||
| Short name | FCK Copenhagen | |||
| Founded | 1 July 1992 | |||
| Ground | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen | |||
| Capacity | 38,065 | |||
| Owner | Parken Sport & Entertainment A/S | |||
| Chairman | Henrik Møgelmose | |||
| Head coach | Jacob Neestrup | |||
| League | Superliga | |||
| 2023–24 | Superliga, 3rd of 12 | |||
| Website | fck.dk | |||
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Football Club Copenhagen (Danish: Football Club København, pronounced [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀn]), commonly known as FC København, FC Copenhagen, Copenhagen or simply FCK, is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and Boldklubben 1903, with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub from 1876 being the oldest club in Continental Europe.
F.C. Copenhagen has won a shared record 15 Danish Football Championships and a shared record 9 Danish Cups. In European football F.C. Copenhagen has reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and the group stage of the UEFA Europa League more times than any other Danish club and are the only Danish club who has reached the knockout stage of the Champions League. As of December 2022, Copenhagen are the highest ranked Scandinavian club in the UEFA team rankings list.[1]
Copenhagen plays its matches at the Parken Stadium, which also serves as the venue for Denmark national football team matches. Since their foundation, FCK have developed a fierce rivalry with Brøndby IF. The Copenhagen Derby games between the two sides have attracted some of the biggest crowds in Danish football history.[2]
- ^ "UEFA Rankings". UEFA. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ Attendance season records at NetSuperligaen.dk, which dates back to the Danish Superliga 1998-99, shows that the biggest crowd each year has been a derby between F.C. København and Brøndby.