Brøndby IF

Brøndby IF

Full name	Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening
Nickname(s)	Drengene fra Vestegnen (The Boys from Vestegnen)
Founded	3 December 1964 (1964-12-03)
Ground	Brøndby Stadium
Capacity	28,000 (23,400 seats)
Chairman	Jan Bech Andersen
Head coach	Jesper Sørensen
League	Danish Superliga
2023–24	2nd of 12
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening short Brøndby IF is a professional association football club based in Brøndbyvester. The club was founded in 1964 when two local clubs merged (Brøndbyøster IF and Brøndbyvester IF).

Brøndby IF has won 11 Danish championships and 7 Danish Cups. Brøndby reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup 1990-91.

Honours

• Winners (11): 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2021
• Danish Cup
  • Winners (7): 1989, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2005,2008, 2019
• Danish League Cup
  • Winners (3): 1984, 2005, 2006
• Danish Super Cup
  • Winners (4): 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002

Current squad

As of 31 March 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Austria Patrick Pentz (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) 2 DF Norway Sebastian Sebulonsen 3 DF Norway Henrik Heggheim 4 DF Denmark Jacob Rasmussen 5 DF Denmark Rasmus Lauritsen 7 FW Denmark Nicolai Vallys 8 MF Denmark Mathias Greve 9 FW Norway Ohi Omoijuanfo (Vice-captain) 10 MF Denmark Daniel Wass (2nd Vice-captain) 11 FW Denmark Filip Bundgaard 14 DF Denmark Kevin Mensah (Captain) 16 GK Denmark Thomas Mikkelsen 18 DF Denmark Kevin Tshiembe 19 MF Denmark Bertram Kvist

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF Poland Mateusz Kowalczyk 22 MF Croatia Josip Radošević 23 MF United States Christian Cappis 24 DF Croatia Marko Divković 28 FW Japan Yuito Suzuki 30 DF Belgium Jordi Vanlerberghe 31 DF Suriname Sean Klaiber 32 DF Denmark Frederik Alves 36 FW Denmark Mathias Kvistgaarden 37 MF Denmark Clement Bischoff 40 GK Denmark Jonathan Ægidius 41 FW Denmark Oscar Schwartau 99 FW Ghana Emmanuel Yeboah

Coaching staff

Name	Role
Jesper Sørensen	Head coach
Frederik Birk Christensen	Assistant coach and Chief analyst
Henrik Hansen	Assistant coach
Casper Ankergren	Goalkeeper coach
Anders Storskov	Fitness coach

Records

• Home victory, Danish Superliga: 7–0 vs. Herfølge, 11 July 2005
• Away victory, Danish Superliga: 7–0 vs. Esbjerg, 26 August 2001; 7–0 vs. AGF, 21 August 2016
• Home loss, Danish Superliga: 1–6 vs. Esbjerg, 14 March 2004
• Away Loss, Danish Superliga: 0–5 vs. Midtjylland, 29 July 2007
• Biggest win, European match 9–0 vs. Juvenes/Dogana, 2 July 2015
• Biggest Loss, European match 0–5 vs. PAOK, 20 August 2015; 0–5 vs. Manchester United, 4 November 1998
• Highest attendance, Brøndby Stadion: 31,508 vs. Copenhagen, 18 June 2003
• Highest average home attendance, season: 18,204, 2004–05
• Most appearances, European matches: 70, Per Nielsen
• Most appearances, total: 556, Bjarne Jensen
• Most goals scored, season, Danish Superliga: 28, Ebbe Sand 1997–98
• Most goals scored, Danish Superliga: 71, Kamil Wilczek
• Most goals scored, European matches: 12, Ruben Bagger
• Most goals scored, total: 121, Kim Vilfort

UEFA club ranking

Current

As of 24 May 2021, Source: [1]

Rank	Team	Points
131	Slovan Bratislava	7.500
132	Mainz	7.000
133	Brøndby IF	7.000
134	Konyaspor	7.000
135	Jablonec	7.000

Other weblinks

• Official website (in Danish)
• Brøndby IF Archived 2021-06-30 at the Wayback Machine at Superliga (in Danish)
• Brøndby IF at UEFA (in English)