Denmark national football team

This article is about the men's football team. For the women's team, see Denmark women's national football team.

Denmark

Nickname(s)	De Rød-Hvide (The Red and Whites), Danish Dynamite, Olsen-Banden (The Olsen Gang), Olsens Elleve[1](Olsen's Eleven), The Red and White Football Aces[2]
Association	Danish Football Association (Dansk Boldspil-Union)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Morten Olsen
Asst coach	Peter Bonde Torben Storm
Most caps	Peter Schmeichel (129)
Top scorer	Poul "Tist" Nielsen (52) Jon Dahl Tomasson (52)
Home stadium	Parken Stadium
FIFA code	DEN
FIFA ranking	10
Highest FIFA ranking	3 (first time: May 1997 most recently: August 1997)
Lowest FIFA ranking	38 (March 2009)
Elo ranking	19
Highest Elo ranking	1 (first time: April 1914 most recently: April 1920)
Lowest Elo ranking	65 (May 1967)
Home colours Away colours
First international
Unofficial: Denmark 5–1 Smyrna F.C. (Athens, Greece; 23 April 1906) Official: Denmark 9–0 France B (London, England; 19 October 1908)
Biggest win
Denmark 17–1 France (London, England; 22 October 1908)
Biggest defeat
Unofficial: Denmark B 1–11 Basque Country (Denmark; 29 August 1937) Official: Germany 8–0 Denmark (Breslau, Germany; 16 May 1937)
World Cup
Appearances	4 (First in 1986)
Best result	Quarter finals, 1998
European Championship
Appearances	7 (First in 1964)
Best result	Winners, 1992
Confederations Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 1995)
Best result	Winners, 1995

Olympic medal record
Olympic Games
Silver	1908 London	Team
Silver	1912 Stockholm	Team
Bronze	1948 London	Team
Silver	1960 Rome	Team

The Denmark national football team (Danish: Danmarks fodboldlandshold) represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU), the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU. Denmark's home ground is Parken Stadium in Østerbro and their head coach is Morten Olsen.

Denmark was the winners of football at the Intercalated Games in 1906 and silver in the Olympics of 1908 and 1912. However, as amateurs who prohibited their internationals from becoming professionals at foreign clubs, Denmark did not qualify for the World Cup until 1986, although they won another Olympic silver in 1960.

Since 1983, the team has continuously been visible as a solidly competitive side, with the triumph in the 1992 European Championships in Sweden as its most prominent victory, beating the European champions from Netherlands in the semifinal, and the World champions from Germany in the final. They also managed to win the 1995 Confederations Cup, defeating Argentina in the final. Their best FIFA World Cup result was achieved in 1998, where they narrowly lost a well played quarter-final against Brazil.

Teams

Apart from the men's senior A-level team, Denmark competes with a women's national team, and has teams at various youth levels for both men and women, most prominently the U21 national team. Historically, the A-level team competed in the Olympics until and including the 1988 tournament, whereafter Olympic games count as U21 national games. In addition to the A-level team and youth teams, Denmark also have a special league national team named Ligalandsholdet, with the best Danish footballers from the Nordic leagues. Ligalandsholdet was created in 1983, and has ever since (except in 2005), each year been playing some unofficial games for the national team, in the winter break of the Nordic leagues. Sometimes the media also refer to Ligalandsholdet as Denmark's B-team, as the best Danish footballers selected for the A-team often play in leagues outside of the Nordic countries. As such, the national team coach also at several times, outlined the purpose of having unofficial matches played by Ligalandsholdet, to be an opportunity of testing new potential upcoming Danish players for the A-team.

History

Amateur years

The first three editions of the Olympic football event in 1900–1906 had an unofficial status, as the event was not yet open for national football teams to compete, and only had limited participation of three or four club teams from a few nations. Denmark had no club team invited in the 1900 Olympics and the 1904 Olympics, but then received a special invitation for the 1906 Olympics, to compete against 1 Greek club team (Athens) and 2 club teams from the Ottoman Empire (Smyrna and Thessaloniki). The team to represent Denmark was compiled of players from the Copenhagen Football Association (KBU), and they managed to win the event, and thereby an unofficial gold medal. Two years later, in the first official football tournament at the 1908 Olympics, Denmark won a silver medal. At the next 1912 Olympics the team again managed to win a silver medal, which was followed by a golden era from April 1914 until April 1920, with Denmark ranked most of the time as nr.1 in the world by the elo ranking.

Danish team at the 1912 Olympics.

Although Denmark figured fairly prominently in the pre-World Cup era, international success would elude them for years from the first World Cup in 1930 and forward. Despite the country's ability to produce outstanding football talents, DBU only had ambition (or economy) to let the national team play friendly matches and the regional tournament Nordic Championship, during the time from October 1920 until June 1948. When DBU decided to increase the ambitions a bit, and allowed the national team to start contesting the Olympics again, this promptly resulted in a bronze medal at the 1948 Olympics. After the team only reached the quarter-final at the 1952 Olympics, DBU however decided not to contest the next 1956 Olympics. As football remained an amateur pastime, most of the best Danish footballers moved abroad to make a living,^[3] and due to DBU enforcing the rule, to bar all professionals from the national team, it started to become difficult to assemble a highly competitive team.

Denmark experienced their next revival at the 1960 Olympics, with a third set of Olympic silver medals. This was followed by another notable performance in the Euro 1964, where Denmark managed to achieve an impressive fourth place. The fourth place, was however by many people considered as being more the result of a comparatively easy draw, rather than a result of a well playing team. In order for Denmark to qualify for the semifinal, they only had to beat nations like Malta, Albania and Luxembourg. At the semifinal, Denmark received a clear 0–3 defeat against Soviet Union, and then finally also lost the bronze match to Hungary.

The strict rule of only allowing amateurism at the national team, was finally abolished by DBU in May 1971, as they had acknowledged this change was needed, in order to build a highly competitive team. In February 1978, when DBU also decided to allow professional football to be introduced in the Danish leagues, the way was at the same time paved for the national team, to sign its first sponsorship with the well-known Danish brewery Carlsberg. The new sponsorship enabled DBU, to hire Sepp Piontek from Germany in July 1979, as the first full-time professional coach of the national football team. The full transition of the national team from amateurism to professionalism had now been accomplished, and indeed, this would soon lead to a vast improvement in the performances of the team.^[3]

Danish Dynamite (1980–1990)

In the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Denmark finished with 8 points from as many games, including a 3–1 win against eventual World Cup champions Italy, but Denmark failed to qualify for the final tournament despite the impressive result. Qualification for the Euro 1984 saw the team beat England at Wembley Stadium when Allan Simonsen converted a penalty kick for a 1–0 win. Denmark qualified for their first international tournament since 1964, and the team was dubbed "Danish Dynamite" in a competition for the official Danish Euro 1984 song.^[3] Denmark's participation ended in the semi-final when the team lost on penalties to Spain, most remembered for Preben Elkjær's penalty miss, his shorts torn apart. Following the strong performance at the finals, the name of "Danish Dynamite" became a mainstay for the following decade of Danish national team football under coach Piontek.

Denmark made their first World Cup appearance in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and with the attacking duo of Michael Laudrup and Preben Elkjær the team surprised the world, sweeping the group, including a 6–1 thrashing of Uruguay. In the second round Denmark once again faced Spain, and once more Denmark lost out. The team received a trashing of their own, losing 5–1, including four goals by Emilio Butragueño. The first Spanish goal was caused by a miss-timed backpass by Jesper Olsen to Butragueño, an unfortunate action subsequently coined as "a real Jesper Olsen" (en rigtig Jesper Olsen). The phrase would live on for 13 years, and was repeated by the Danish TV commentators in 1999, when an identical backpass was carried out by Jesper Grønkjær to Filippo Inzaghi, at his debut game for the national team.^[4]

After the glory days of 1986, the success of the team continued, as it first qualified for the Euro 1988 tournament, and then had a nearby qualification for the 1988 Olympics. In the qualification group for the Olympics, the job to coach Denmark in these particular games, had for the first time been given to Richard Møller Nielsen, and he proofed his skills, as Denmark initially managed to secure a spot for the final tournament -ahead of West Germany. But following the discovery that Dane Per Frimann was not eligible for the teams 2–0 win over Poland, Denmark was penalised the points of the win, and subsequently did not have enough points to qualify. After this disappointing news had arrived, Denmark had to pin all its hope and faith, for a successful performance at the Euro 1988, instead. The straight opposite however happened, as Denmark's participation ended in early defeat, after Denmark lost all the group games to Spain, Germany, and Italy. A period of transition with faltering results, had now started, and as Denmark subsequently also failed to qualify for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Sepp Piontek decided to stop as coach for the national team in April 1990, where he was replaced by his assistant coach Richard Møller Nielsen.

1992 European Championship Victory

The first goal for the newly appointed coach, was to qualify for the Euro 1992 in Sweden. Denmark started out with a secure home victory against Faroe Islands, but the following results in the qualification were an away draw against Northern Ireland and a 2–0 home loss against Yugoslavia. Due to the bad start, and a strong disagreement with the coach about the new defensive team tactics, the two best Danish footballers at the time, Michael Laudrup and Brian Laudrup, decided to quit playing for the team in November 1990. When the coach subsequently also decided to dismiss quality players like Jan Mølby and Jan Heintze from the team, due to disciplinary problems, several newspapers started to demand that Richard Møller Nielsen should step down, as the team was clearly falling apart under his influence. Despite this strong criticism, the team managed to win the rest of their five games in the group, including a 2–1 away win against Yugoslavia. This strong comeback was however not enough to qualify, as the team still had to settle with a second place in the group, behind Yugoslavia.

What initially appeared to be a failed qualification, would however soon turn out, to become Denmark's finest hour in the international competitions. Due to international sanctions resulting from the Yugoslav wars, UEFA announced on 31 May 1992 – only 10 days before the competition commenced – that Yugoslavia were to be excluded from the competition and their place given to Denmark, who entered as the second-placed team in its qualifying group.^[5]

Contrary to popular belief,^[3] the team however did not enter the tournament completely unprepared, after having rallied home from seaside vacations. The majority of players were already assembled to play a friendly match against the CIS, when Denmark officially got the spot at the tournament.^[6] Relying heavily on goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel and his defense, as well as creative spark Brian Laudrup – having fortunately decided to make a comeback for the national team in April 1992 – the Danish team created one of the biggest surprises in the event's history, as they went on to win the European Championship trophy, under coach Richard Møller Nielsen's defensive playing style. Advancing from the group stage ahead of England and France, Denmark beat the Dutch defending Euro 1988 champions on penalties in the semifinal, and with the 2–0 win against reigning 1990 FIFA World Cup champions Germany in the final, Denmark had won its first international trophy.

Decline and Revival (1993–2000)

In August 1993, one year after the Euro 1992 win, Michael Laudrup decided to settle his ongoing dispute with Richard Møller Nielsen about the team tactics, and made a comeback for the national team. The following years Denmark saw mixed results, as they first failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but then managed to win the 1995 Confederations Cup, beating Copa América champions Argentina 2–0 in the final. As defending champions at the Euro 1996, Denmark was not able to continue its previous success, but disappointed with a lacklustre performance, causing an early elimination already in the group stage. Result wise the tournament was not a complete disaster, as the team had achieved a respectable win against Turkey, a draw against Portugal and only a defeat to Croatia. The reason why both the coach and team faced strong criticism after the tournament, was mainly because of the defensive and boring playing style. As controversy previously had occurred in fall 1995, over DBU's decision to prolong the contract with Richard Møller Nielsen, there was a strained relationship to the press already ahead of the Euro 1996 tournament; and facing a new wave of criticism, the coach decided in a mutual agreement with DBU, to terminate his contract already by the end of June 1996.

The new coach to be assigned, was the sympathetic Swede, Bo "Bosse" Johansson, who gave the team a more offensive strategy, and the 1998 FIFA World Cup saw the revival of the Danish team, starring both Laudrup brothers in their last international campaign. After beating Saudi Arabia 1–0, drawing with South Africa and losing 2–1 to later champions France in mediocre games, the Danish team qualified to the knockout stages as second in the group. In the next game however, Denmark played some of the best football of the entire tournament, beating Nigeria 4–1 in a fantastic game. In the quarterfinal against Brazil, the Danes went out with a beautiful 2–3 defeat to the later silver medalists, in a very close and emotional game. Next challenge then was, to qualify the team for the Euro 2000, for the first time without the Laudrup brothers. When this goal indeed was achieved by "Bosse", he received a lot of praise. But when the team showed up for the final tournament, and disappointed big time with 3 lost games in the group stage, "Bosse" was heavily criticized for having selected too many players for the squad, with injury problems and poor form. Facing the strong criticism after the teams disappointing performance in the Euro 2000 tournament, "Bosse" decided not to prolong his contract.

The Olsen Gang (2000–2014)

FIFA World Rankings evolution for Denmark national team (August 1993 – July 2009).

The new coach, starting for Denmark in July 2000, turned out to be the former national team captain from the successful team of the 1980s, Morten Olsen, and the team was quickly dubbed the "Olsen Gang", a reference to the series of Danish movies based around the main character Egon Olsen and his genius (criminal) plans. The nickname was also sometimes used for the Danish team -as an alternative to the more commonly used "Danish Dynamite"-, already back in those days when Olsen played as a captain. In the era with Olsen as a coach, his great experience from among others Ajax Amsterdam was transferred to the national team, as Denmark's tactics shifted from the preferred 4–4–2 formation practised by Bo Johansson, to an even more attacking style, with an emphasis on the speedy wingers available to him at the time, namely Jesper Grønkjær and Dennis Rommedahl.^[7] Based on that, the preferred starting formation with Olsen as coach, has always been either a 4–3–3 or a 4–2–3–1.^[8][9] He even poses an outspoken opposition to the 4–4–2 system, as he announced the desire to leave his position as national coach, in case he was asked to play with this system as a standard.^[10] To support the development of players for the new tactical 4–3–3 system used by Olsen, all the national youth teams also changed their formation into the same 4–3–3 system.^[11] Another change Olsen brought to the national team, was to stress the importance of only using fit players, who were granted regular playing time at their club team. A principle that he however later has been forced to compromise with at several times, as the player material available in such a relatively small nation, doesn't always provide many realistic substitute options.

Denmark qualified both for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the Euro 2004, but despite impressive results in the group stage in both tournaments, especially the 2–0 win against reigning World Cup winners France in 2002, Denmark didn't manage to advance any further, and in both tournaments got clearly defeated with a score of 0–3 in the first round after the group stage. At the World Cup 2002 Denmark were defeated by England at round 16, and at Euro 2004 the defeat took place in the quarterfinal against the Czech Republic. The Euro 2004 will also be remembered for an incident in the game with Italy, where Italian star Francesco Totti was caught on camera spitting on Danish player Christian Poulsen; and then subsequently the joint elimination of Italy by Denmark and Sweden in the last group stage match, when the two teams drew 2–2 following a Swedish goal in the 89th minute, making for the exact and famous result that would see the Italians eliminated.

For the 2006 World Cup qualification, Denmark was paired with, among others, 2002 World Cup bronze winners Turkey and Euro 2004 champions Greece competing for only one guaranteed spot at the final tournament. Following a poor start of the qualification, Denmark were trailing both Turkey and surprise leaders Ukraine. Denmark needed Turkey to lose points in the final games in order for Denmark to clinch the 2nd place of the group and one last chance to qualify via two play-off games. Indeed, had Turkey lost points to Albania in their last game, Denmark would have gone through, but instead they had to settle for 3rd place in the group and a longer summer break. After failing to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, coach Olsen considered leaving the job, having received several offers from club teams, but decided to stay and extended his contract until after the 2010 FIFA World Cup, spurred on by his and the team's popularity among the Danish population.^[12]

When the next attempt to qualify for the Euro 2008 also failed -after among other things to have received an administrative defeat against Sweden at home turf, due to a spectator's intrusion on the field-, the team got heavily criticized, with many Danes asking for the departure of Morten Olsen as a coach. This suggestion was however refused by DBU and the majority of coaches in the Danish Superliga, who still had trust in Olsen being the best coach for Denmark.^[13] In the qualification group for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the trust in Olsen was immediately paid back. Despite a difficult group with both Portugal and Sweden as higher ranked opponents, Denmark managed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup by winning the group, after among other things, getting two victories against Sweden and one victory plus a draw against Portugal. After having celebrated the successful World Cup 2010 qualification, the contract with Morten Olsen as coach was extended for two more years, until the Euro 2012.^[14]

At the 2010 World Cup, Denmark was grouped with Japan, Cameroon and the Netherlands. Denmark lost the first match 2–0 to Netherlands, but then had a vital 2–1 victory against Cameroon, which enabled further advancement in case of victory over Japan, in the last third match. The game against Japan however ended with a 3–1 defeat, and thereby Denmark didn't reach their declared goal of advancement to round 16. Apparently the biggest reason for the lack of success, was however this time, that Denmark in both the preface -and during the 3 games at the tournament- had struggled with a lot of injuries hitting their best players.

When measuring the performance of the national team by winning share and earned points, Olsen's reign of the Danish national team from July 2000 until December 2010, has so far been the second most successful in the era of full time professional coaches, which began in 1979. As of December 2010, Morten Olsen has a winning share of 51.3%, and with three points for a victory and one for a draw, Olsen has an average of 1.81 points per game.^[15] In comparison, Richard Møller Nielsen still have the best record among the professional coaches of the Denmark national football team, with a 54.8% winning share and an average of 1.89 points per game.^[16] This kind of statistic of course only provide an overall indication of the performance, as it doesn't take the difficulty of the opponents into account -and/or the number of "difficult games". For a more accurate evaluation of the performance of the national team under the guidance of various coaches, one should also compare the development in the teams position at the official FIFA ranking or Elo ranking, where the merits of qualification and results in the final European Championship and World Cup tournament get the highest weight. Beside of the success of Olsen to qualify Denmark for the World Cup in 2002 and 2010, and the European Championship in 2004, he also gained several great results in the friendly games. In example, a friendly 4–1 win over England in 2005; being the worst loss for the English team since 1980, and a repetition of the friendly 3–2 win achieved by Denmark on English ground at Old Trafford in 2003.

Supporters

Main article: Roligan

Apart from the national team, Denmark is equally famous for its traveling fans, known as roligans. The movement emerged during the 1980s as the declared opposition to hooliganism. The goal of the roligan movement is calm, yet cheerful, support during the matches, as rolig means calm in the Danish language. The roligans have since developed an image of easy-going nature and rabid support, and are often considered amongst the world's best national team fans, along with the Tartan Army of Scotland. They were collectively given the FIFA FairPlay Award at the 1984 European Championships.^[17] Just before the 1986 World Cup, the roligan movement was organized in order to support the national team at the tournament.

The good reputation of the Danish supporters was however sullied by the 2008 UEFA qualifier fan attack, happening in June 2007 at the Euro 2008 qualifying game against Sweden, when an enraged Danish supporter invaded the pitch and tried to attack the referee, following his decision to hand out a red card for Christian Poulsen and a penalty kick to Sweden at the last minute of the game. The attacking fan was stopped by some of the Danish football players on the field, before he reached the referee, but due to the episode the game was immediately canceled by the referee, and UEFA subsequently decided to award a 0–3 defeat for Denmark, as a punishment.

Stadium

For stadium history, see Parken Stadium.

Parken, with a capacity of 38,009 spectators, located in Copenhagen, and used as official home stadium by the Denmark national football team.

First home game of the Denmark national football team, was a 2–1 friendly win over England at 25 May 1910, taking place with 12,000 spectators at the stadium "KBs baner" (located in the area "Granen", where Forum Copenhagen later was build).^[18] As the facilities were considered too small, a new stadium in Copenhagen was built with the name Idrætsparken, that since its opening 25 May 1911 hosted all the home games of the football club KB and most of the home games of the national team. During the first 82 years of the national team, from October 1908 until November 1990, Denmark played a total number of 254 A-level home games, of which 232 were played in Idrætsparken. According to the official statistics, the home games at Idrætsparken result wise ended with 125 victories, 41 draws and 66 lost games; and the stadium reached a record of 51,600 spectators for the 1–2 game against Sweden in June 1957.^[19] In regards of the first era from 1908–1990, only 22 home games were played at other stadiums than Idrætsparken; of which 11 took place at NRGi Park (then known as Atletion) in Århus, followed by Aalborg Stadion in Aalborg with 6 games, and the remaining 5 games hosted by four other stadiums. Whenever another stadium than Idrætsparken was used for a home game, it was however only for some of the less important friendly games or Olympic qualifiers. While only Idrætsparken was used to host the games related to big important tournaments, like the Nordic championship, European Championship and World Cup. When a major rebuilt of Idrætsparken began in December 1990, the subsequent two official Euro 1992 qualification games, were however moved to Odense Stadium in Odense.

On September 9 in 1992, the rebuilt Idrætsparken, now called Parken, became the biggest venue in Denmark with 42,358 seats, and was opened with a friendly 1–2 defeat against Germany. This first game in Parken had a visit of 40,500 spectators;^[20] while the current stadium record at 42,099 spectators was reached the 8 October 2005, for a World Cup qualifying game against Greece.^[21]

The capacity of the stadium was later reduced to 38,009 seats, after the upper part of the D-side was converted from 4,000 extra seats into office and VIP areas, in June 2009.^[22][23] Despite this decrease in capacity, the stadium is today still the biggest venue in Denmark by far; as the next biggest venue Brøndby Stadium only has a capacity of 26,000 seats. During the time from September 1992 until May 2006, Parken was the sole stadium of all the men's senior national team matches. However, meagre spectator support at some of the friendly matches at Parken, which for the years in 2000–2005 attracted an acceptable average of 23,862 per game, but down to 9,598 for the friendly 3–1 win over Israel in April 2002;^[24] caused the decision by DBU, to start moving many of the friendly matches to other stadiums around the country. These other stadiums had less spectator capacity than Parken, but just about enough, to cover the Danes somewhat lower interest for the friendly games.

At 27 May 2006, Parken's 13-year monopoly on national team matches got broken for the first time, when Denmark played a friendly game at the NRGi Park stadium in Århus, against the World Cup 2006 participants Paraguay. This particular game got outsold within a short while, with almost 19,000 of the 20,227 tickets being sold within the first hour of sale,^[25] and was support-wise a big success with a total audience of 20,047 spectators.^[26] When the two next friendly games were played at some other new venues, August 16 at Fionia Park in Odense with Poland as opponent, and September 1 at Brøndby Stadium with Portugal as opponent, the number of spectators however dropped to a disappointing level. The match against Poland only attracted 11,088 spectators,^[27] while the match against Portugal only attracted 13,186 spectators;^[28] and the match against Portugal was in particular deemed as a support-wise failure, as it featured a higher ranked opponent, which spectators normally would have a high interest to watch. The main reasons why Brøndby Stadium failed to attract a high number of spectators, were generally thought to be a combination of the poor rainy weather, and the fact that this stadium is located on the outskirts of Copenhagen; and as such does not attract a new demographic audience compared to Parken, due to the travel distances being more or less the same for the majority of the population.

Currently, while most of the friendly games continue to be played at some of the smaller stadiums in Denmark, it has been decided to continue playing all of the qualifying games for the European Championships and World Cup, only at Parken Stadium.^[29] Those friendly games, which are believed to create a high interest from spectators, will also continue to be played at Parken. In example, the friendly game against Germany in August 2010, took place at Parken Stadium, due to the general expectation of many spectators having a desire to watch the game. After the weak performance of Denmark at the World Cup 2010, the friendly game however only managed to draw a total number of 19,071 spectators.^[30] During the last 18 years, from September 1992 until October 2010, Denmark played a total of 73 A-level games at Parken Stadium; of which 46 were won, 16 got drawed, and only 11 were lost.^[31]

Competitive record

World Cup Location and Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1930 Did not enter - - - - - - - 1934 Did not enter - - - - - - - 1938 Did not enter - - - - - - - 1950 Did not enter - - - - - - - 1954 Did not enter - - - - - - - 1958 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1962 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1966 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1970 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1974 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1978 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1982 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1986 Round of 16 9 4 3 0 1 10 6 1990 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1994 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 1998 Quarter-finals 5 5 2 1 2 9 7 2002 Round of 16 10 4 2 1 1 5 5 2006 Did not qualify - - - - - - - 2010 Round 1 24 3 1 0 2 3 6 2014 - - - - - - - - 2018 - - - - - - - - 2022 - - - - - - - - Total 4/19 - 16 8 2 6 27 24 List of FIFA World Cup matches Year Round Score Result 1986 Round 1  Denmark 1 – 0  Scotland Win Round 1  Denmark 6 – 1  Uruguay Win Round 1  Denmark 2 – 0  Germany Win Round 2  Denmark 1 – 5  Spain Loss 1998 Round 1  Denmark 1 – 0  Saudi Arabia Win Round 1  Denmark 1 – 1  South Africa Draw Round 1  Denmark 1 – 2  France Loss Round 2  Denmark 4 – 1  Nigeria Win Round 3  Denmark 2 – 3  Brazil Loss 2002 Round 1  Denmark 2 – 1  Uruguay Win Round 1  Denmark 1 – 1  Senegal Draw Round 1  Denmark 2 – 0  France Win Round 2  Denmark 0 – 3  England Loss 2010 Round 1  Denmark 0 – 2  Netherlands Loss Round 1  Denmark 2 – 1  Cameroon Win Round 1  Denmark 1 – 3  Japan Loss

Summer Olympics (unofficial) Year Round GP W D* L GS GA 1900 Was not invited - - - - - - 1904 Was not invited - - - - - - 1906 Gold 2 2 0 0 14 1 Total 1/3 2 2 0 0 14 1 The first 3 Olympic football events were only unofficial tournaments, with a few nations represented by a club team. Starting from 1908, the Olympic football tournament became an official event, with representation of the official national football teams. Summer Olympics (official) Year Round GP W D* L GS GA 1908 Silver 3 2 0 1 26 3 1912 Silver 3 2 0 1 13 5 1920 First round 1 0 0 1 0 1 1924 Did not enter - - - - - - 1928 Did not enter - - - - - - 1936 Did not enter - - - - - - 1948 Bronze 4 3 0 1 15 11 1952 Quarter-final 3 2 0 1 7 6 1956 Did not enter - - - - - - 1960 Silver 5 4 0 1 11 7 1964 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1968 Did not enter - - - - - - 1972 Second round 6 3 1 2 11 7 1976 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1980 Did not enter - - - - - - 1984 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1988 Did not qualify - - - - - - Total 7/17 25 16 1 8 83 40 After the Olympics 1988, the football event was changed into a tournament, with participation only for the U21 national teams.

European Championship UEFA European Championship record Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1960 Did not qualify 1964 Fourth Place 4th 2 0 0 2 1 6 1968 to 1980 Did not qualify 1984 Semi Final 3rd 4 2 1 1 9 4 1988 Group Stage 7th 3 0 0 3 2 7 1992 Champions 1st 5 2 2 1 6 4 1996 Group Stage 9th 3 1 1 1 4 4 2000 Group Stage 16th 3 0 0 3 0 8 2004 Quarter Final 8th 4 1 2 1 4 5 2008 Did not qualify 2012 Qualified 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 8/14 24 6 6 12 26 38 FIFA Confederations Cup Location and Year Round GP W D* L GS GA 1992 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1995 Champions 3 2 1 0 5 1 1997 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1999 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2001 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2003 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2005 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2009 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2013 Total 1/8 3 2 1 0 5 1

Results and schedule

See also: List of Denmark national football team results and 2011–12 in Danish football

The box below, show the results of all A-level matches played within the last 12 months, and the scheduled matches for the nearest future.^[32]

Date	Opponent	Result	Score*	Venue	Competition
7 Sep 2010	Iceland	W	1–0	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	Euro 2012 qualification
8 Oct 2010	Portugal	L	1–3	Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal	Euro 2012 qualification
12 Oct 2010	Cyprus	W	2–0	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	Euro 2012 qualification
17 Nov 2010	Czech Republic	D	0–0	NRGi Park, Århus, Denmark	International Friendly
9 Feb 2011	England	L	1–2	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	International Friendly
26 Mar 2011	Norway	D	1–1	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	Euro 2012 qualification
29 Mar 2011	Slovakia	W	2–1	Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava, Slovakia	International Friendly
04 Jun 2011	Iceland	W	2–0	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland	Euro 2012 qualification
10 Aug 2011	Scotland	L	1–2	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	International Friendly
6 Sep 2011	Norway	W	2–0	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	Euro 2012 qualification
7 Oct 2011	Cyprus	W	4–1	GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus	Euro 2012 qualification
11 Oct 2011	Portugal	W	2–1	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	Euro 2012 qualification
11 Nov 2011	Sweden	W	2–0	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	International Friendly
15 Nov 2011	Finland	W	2–1	Blue Water Arena, Esbjerg, Denmark	International Friendly

* Denmark score always listed first

Standings in Group H of the Euro 2012 qualification

Legend
Group winners and best runner-up among all groups directly qualify for the finals
Remaining group runners-up advance to the play-offs

Teamv · d · e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Denmark 8 6 1 1 15 6 +9 19  Portugal 8 5 1 2 21 12 +9 16  Norway 8 5 1 2 10 7 +3 16  Iceland 8 1 1 6 6 14 −8 4  Cyprus 8 0 2 6 7 20 −13 2

Cyprus  — 1–4 0–0 1–2 0–4 Denmark  2–0 — 1–0 2–0 2–1 Iceland  1–0 0–2 — 1–2 1–3 Norway  3–1 1–1 1–0 — 1–0 Portugal  4–4 3–1 5–3 1–0 —

Players

See also: List of Denmark international footballers and 2009–10 in Danish football

The players are freely chosen by the national team manager. They are normally assembled, from their respective club teams, at Hotel Marienlyst in Elsinore for a week-long training camp preluding the upcoming game. Friendly games are typically played on a Wednesday evening. World Cup qualifiers are played on both Saturday and Wednesday evenings; while Euro qualifiers now take place on both a Friday and Tuesday evening when playing two games in a row, or on a Friday/Saturday/Tuesday at rounds with only one game scheduled.^[32][33]

Payment

Each player in the national team receives a set amount of money per game, including bonuses for a game win and qualification for European Championship and World Cup tournaments. Through the years, these money prizes have gone from around €1,340 for a game win in 1987 and around €26,800 for the Euro 1988 participation alone, to around €67,000 for the 1998 World Cup, and up to €107,000 for the 2002 World Cup participations, per player.^[34] Currently, the payments for participation in games outside the big tournaments are regulated by a collective agreement -to be renegotiated after a certain number of years-, while all payments for participation of players in a final tournament squad are regulated by the 1998 agreement between DBU and Spillerforeningen. The 1998 agreement has outlined, that whenever the team manage to qualify for a World Cup or European Championship, the selected players for the final tournament shall receive 50% of DBU's revenues from the event, and 65% of DBU's revenues from the sale of merchandise and license agreements. In top of that, the sponsors of the team also pay a relatively high qualification bonus, each time the team qualify for a final tournament. This additional qualification bonus is shared between the group of players being selected for the final 18-man squad, to one or several of the qualification matches played, with the exact distribution normally decided according to the number of times the player was selected.^[35]

Each of the 23 selected players for the 2002 World Cup received DKK 498,000 (equal to €66,800) from the event revenues,^[35] plus DKK 122,900 (equal to €16,500) from the sale of merchandise and license agreements, plus an unknown qualification bonus from the sponsors, plus the standard payment from DBU each time they got selected for the final 18-man squad to a qualification match.^[36] In comparison, each of the 23 selected players for the 2010 World cup received DKK 635,000 (equal to €85,100) from the event revenues, plus DKK 98,900 (equal to €13,200) from the sale of merchandise and license agreements, plus a qualification bonus from the sponsors at DKK 2,800,000 (equal to €375,000) to be shared between the players -corresponding to an amount of €2,080 per time the player got selected for the final 18-man squad to a qualification match. Beside of the qualification bonus, the players also received this standard payment from DBU, each time they were selected for the 18-man squad to a qualification match:^[36]

• Starting fee: home games = DKK 1,2 per spectator, away games = DKK 8,290
• Bonus for a draw: home games = DKK 0, away games = DKK 9,475
• Bonus for a win: home games = DKK 17,765, away games = DKK 29,600

Based on Denmark's results and number of spectators at home games,^[15] the standard qualification match payment, to a player selected for all Denmark's qualification matches, hereby equals a total amount of DKK 235,898 (or €31,600) for the 6 qualification matches in the 2008–09 season, and a total amount of DKK 170,788 (or €22,900) for the 4 qualification matches in the 2009–10 season. Finally the players could also add a seasonal payment named "regular bonus" from the sponsors, with a total of DKK 4,350,000 (equal to €583,100) to be shared each season by the squad of 18 players selected for a match; meaning that a player who got selected for all matches of the national team from August 1 to July 31, would receive an additional amount of DKK 241,700 (equal to €32,400) in both the 2008–09 season and 2009–10 season.^[36]

The last amount of a players income generated by the national team, is the standard payment received for each friendly match:^[37]

• Starting fee: home games = DKK 1,0 per spectator, away games = DKK 5,000
• Bonus for a draw: home games = DKK 0, away games = DKK 0
• Bonus for a win: home games = DKK 10,000, away games = DKK 10,000

Based on Denmark's results and number of spectators at home games,^[15] the standard payment to a player selected for all Denmark's friendly matches, hereby equals a total amount of DKK 41,426 (or €5,500) for the 3 friendly matches in the 2008–09 season, and a total amount of DKK 88,773 (or €11,900) for the 7 friendly matches in the 2009–10 season.

When all these payments are added together for a player, under the assumption that he was selected for all matches in each season, and the final 2010 World Cup squad, then he would have received a total payment from DBU at €69,500 in the 2008–09 season, and a total payment from DBU at €186,300 in the 2009–10 season.

Player names and numbers

Shirt numbers became quickly associated with a certain position. So to describe someone as 'Denmark's number 9' would be to describe a player as the best choice for centre forward. This terminology continues today, and the team has kept to the tradition of numbering players in the starting squad from 1 to 11 (with 12 upwards for substitutes), at all games played outside the major tournaments. For games at major tournaments, such as the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Football Championship, the team is required to play with permanent squad numbers throughout the tournament.

Numbers are traditionally associated with a certain position on the field, but there are no set rules. Furthermore, established players will tend to use the same number whenever they play. Christian Poulsen, for example, retains the Denmark number 2 no matter what position he plays in. However, when Poulsen does not play, another player will be number 2.

Current squad

The following players were selected by manager Morten Olsen for the Friendly Matches against Sweden and Finland which will play on 11 and 15 November 2011, respectively.

Caps and goals as of 11 October 2011.

# Type Player Position Age Caps Goals Club 1GK Anders Lindegaard Goalkeeper 27 5 0 Manchester United 1GK Thomas Sørensen Goalkeeper 35 99 0 Stoke City -1 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 3DF Daniel Agger (c) Centre back 26 44 5 Liverpool 3DF Andreas Bjelland Centre back 23 4 0 Nordsjælland 3DF Simon Kjær Centre back 22 21 0 Roma 3DF Jores Okore Centre back 19 2 0 Nordsjælland 3DF Lasse Nielsen Centre back 23 0 0 AaB 3DF Lars Jacobsen Right back 32 47 1 København 3DF Simon Poulsen Left back 27 15 0 AZ 3DF Daniel Wass Right back 22 4 0 Evian -1 4 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 5MF Mikkel Beckmann Offensive MF 28 6 0 Nordsjælland 5MF Christian Eriksen Offensive MF 19 19 2 Ajax 5MF William Kvist Central MF 26 26 0 VfB Stuttgart 5MF Martin Jørgensen Offensive MF 36 102 12 AGF 5MF Christian Poulsen Defensive MF 31 89 6 Evian 5MF Jakob Poulsen Central MF 28 18 1 Midtjylland 5MF Lasse Schøne Offensive MF 25 8 2 NEC 5MF Michael Silberbauer Central MF 30 23 1 Young Boys 5MF Niki Zimling Defensive MF 26 8 0 Club Brugge -1 6 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 7FW Nicklas Bendtner Striker 23 45 17 Sunderland 7FW Nicolai Jørgensen Left wing 20 2 0 Bayer Leverkusen 7FW Tobias Mikkelsen Right Wing 25 1 0 Nordsjælland 7FW Michael Krohn-Dehli Left wing 28 18 4 Brøndby 7FW Dennis Rommedahl Right wing 33 113 21 Brøndby

Recent call-ups

The following list of active players, were not called up for the latest match of the national team, but were called up for an A-level match within the last 12 months, and remained available on the noted match day for a potential selection to the final squad.

Type Player Position Age Caps Goals Club Latest Callup 1GK Stephan Andersen Goalkeeper 29 8 0 Évian 2011-10-11 (Euro qualifier) 1GK Kasper Schmeichel Goalkeeper 25 0 0 Leicester City 2011-06-04 (Euro qualifier) 1GK Jesper Christiansen Goalkeeper 33 11 0 Elfsborg 2011-03-29 (Friendly game) 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 3DF Bo Svensson Centre back 32 3 0 Mainz 05 2011-10-11 (Euro qualifier) 3DF Jesper Juelsgård Left back 22 0 0 Midtjylland 2011-10-11 (Euro qualifier) 3DF Nicolai Boilesen Left back 19 2 0 Ajax 2011-09-06 (Euro qualifier) 3DF Mathias Jørgensen Centre back 21 6 0 København 2011-08-10 (Friendly game) 3DF Johnny Thomsen Right back 29 3 0 København 2011-08-10 (Friendly game) 3DF Leon Jessen Left back 25 4 0 Kaiserslautern 2011-06-04 (Euro qualifier) 3DF Per Krøldrup Centre back 32 33 0 Fiorentina 2010-11-17 (Friendly game) 3DF Patrick Mtiliga Left back 30 5 0 Nordsjælland 2010-11-17 (Friendly game) 3DF Kris Stadsgaard Centre back 26 2 0 Málaga 2010-11-17 (Friendly game) 4 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 5MF Thomas Enevoldsen Offensive MF 24 11 1 Groningen 2011-08-10 (Friendly game) 5MF Bashkim Kadrii Left wing 20 1 0 OB 2011-08-10 (Friendly game) 5MF Kasper Lorentzen Central MF 25 3 1 Randers 2011-06-04 (Euro qualifier) 5MF Martin Vingaard Central MF 26 9 1 København 2011-02-09 (Friendly game) 5MF Daniel Jensen Offensive MF 32 52 3 Werder Bremen 2010-11-17 (Friendly game) 5MF Thomas Kahlenberg Central MF 28 36 4 VfL Wolfsburg 2010-11-17 (Friendly game) 5MF Hans Henrik Andreasen Offensive MF 32 1 0 OB 2010-11-17 (Friendly game) 6 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 7FW Nicklas Pedersen Striker 24 7 0 Groningen 2011-09-06 (Friendly game) 7FW Mads Junker Striker 30 6 1 Roda 2011-08-10 (Friendly game) 7FW Morten Skoubo Striker 31 6 1 OB 2011-06-04 (Euro qualifier) 7FW Morten Rasmussen Striker 26 5 1 Sivasspor 2010-11-17 (Friendly game)

Previous squads

Olympics / Confederations Cup Olympics 1908 squad Olympics 1912 squad Olympics 1920 squad Olympics 1948 squad Olympics 1952 squad Olympics 1960 squad Olympics 1972 squad Confederations Cup 1995 squad

UEFA European Championship Euro 1964 squad Euro 1984 squad Euro 1988 squad Euro 1992 winning squad Euro 1996 squad Euro 2000 squad Euro 2004 squad

FIFA World Cup World Cup 1986 squad World Cup 1998 squad World Cup 2002 squad World Cup 2010 squad

Best players of all time

In November 2006, the Danish Football Association nominated eight Danish national team footballers for the "Best Danish Footballer of All Time" award. The nominated players were Morten Olsen, Henning Jensen, Allan Simonsen, Preben Elkjær, Michael Laudrup, Brian Laudrup, Peter Schmeichel, and Jon Dahl Tomasson. The winner of the award was decided by a public vote arranged by the broadcasting channel TV2, which ended with Michael Laudrup as a clear winner, with 58% of the votes.^[38]

Hall of Fame

Denmark's Hall of Fame was established in October 2008, as a special award to celebrate the best footballers, teams and coaches; throughout the history of the national team. A jury with 6 people (representing the newspapers, authors of football books, active players of the national team, TV2, DBU, and a Hall of Fame member), each year have the job to award one or two new members for the Hall of Fame. The award will be handed out at the official Danish Football Awards, which is a yearly DBU event, broadcasted by TV2 in November. Beside of receiving the award, all Hall of Fame members are also invited to leave a footprint in bronze, to decorate the entrance hall at "Fodboldens hus" -the DBU headquarters in Brøndby.^[39]

Hall of Fame members:

• Carl Aage Præst (1945–1949)^[40]
• Harald Nielsen (1959–1960)^[41]
• Allan Simonsen (1972–1986)^[40]
• Preben Elkjær (1977–1988)^[42]
• Danish Dynamite team (1980–1989): Represented with a footprint of Morten Olsen (c, 1970–1989) and Sepp Piontek (coach, 1979–1990).^[43]
• Euro 1992 team (June 1992): Represented with a footprint of Lars Olsen (c, 1986–1996) and Richard Møller Nielsen (coach, 1990–1996).^[39]
• Michael Laudrup (1982–1998)^[39]
• Peter Schmeichel (1987–2001)^[44]

Coaching staff

When the national team is assembled and train together ahead of a match, the team is coached by:

Coaching staff	Name
National manager	Morten Olsen
Assistant managers	Peter Bonde & Torben Storm
Offense coach	Ebbe Sand
Goalkeeper coach	Lars Høgh
Physical coach	Jens Bangsbo

Former managers

Main article: Denmark national football team statistics#Managers

The responsibility and job description for the manager of the Denmark national football team, has changed throughout the history. In the first years from 1908–1918, DBU preferred to assign a manager with the overall responsibility. But this was followed by a long era in 1919–1956, with either no manager or only a caretaker manager assigned. When DBU decided to assign Arne Sørensen (Nov.1956-Dec.1961) and Poul Petersen (Jan.1962-Dec.1966) as managers for a roling period of several years, they were granted the responsibility to coach the physical training and decide the team tactics before and during the game, but had no influence upon the selection of players for the national team -which was a job for the special appointed selection committee: "UdtagelsesKomitéen".^[45]

For the years in 1967–1969, the management of the team more or less became a sole responsibility for "UdtagelsesKomitéen", following a new approach. In this new approach, the job to select players continued to be the responsibility for "UdtagelsesKomitéen", but the chairman of the committee was now also appointed to be the "tactical manager" of the national team, as DBU realised the need of having a special tactical manager assigned, to get influence upon both the selection of players and the related tactics before and during the game. The appointed tactical manager, however didn't have the responsibility to train the team, as a special physical coach was selected for that part of the job. In 1970, the approach with two managers assigned was however abandoned again, when DBU realised the need to assign only one manager with the sole responsibility of the team.^[45]

For the years in 1970–1979, the job to select players was however not yet a sole responsibility of the manager alone, but only a shared responsibility, as this continued to be a matter for "UdtagelsesKomitéen" to decide. When a selection of players had to be made, it was decided by a vote in the committee, with the appointed manager being granted an influence of 3 votes, and the four members of the committee being granted 1 vote each. This special selection procedure continued until July 1979, where it was decided to hand out the sole responsibility of all manager related areas, to the manager himself, with the assignment of Sepp Piontek as the first full time professional manager of the national football team.^[45]

The box below, list all assigned football managers for the national team, since the first official game in October 1908.
During the years from 1911 to 1961, a total of 169 games were played without an assigned manager.

Manager	Period	Games	Win	Draw	Loss	Win %	Elo ranking
Charles Williams	Oct.1908–Dec.1910	4	3	0	1	75.0%	nr.2
no manager	Jan.1911–Dec.1912	5	3	0	2	60.0%	nr.2–nr.3
Axel Andersen Byrval	Jan.1913–Dec.1915 Jan.1917–Dec.1918	16	14	1	1	87.5%	nr.1–nr.2 nr.1–nr.2
no manager	Jan.1916–Dec.1916 Jan.1919–Jul.1920	10	5	1	4	50.0%	nr.1 nr.1–nr.3
caretaker manager	Aug.1920	1	0	0	1	0.0%	nr.4
no manager	Sep.1920–Dec.1938	77	35	13	29	45.5%	nr.3–nr.21
caretaker managers	Jan.1939–Oct.1956	18	10	3	5	55.6%	nr.16–nr.35
no manager	Jul.1939–Sep.1956	74	29	11	34	39.2%	nr.16–nr.35
Arne Sørensen	Nov.1956–Dec.1961	41	20	8	13	48.8%	nr.25–nr.46
no manager	Jun.1957–Sep.1961	3	1	0	2	33.3%	nr.25–nr.46
Poul Petersen	Jan.1962–Dec.1966	47	17	8	22	36.2%	nr.28–nr.63
Erik Hansen (tactical coach) Ernst Netuka (training coach)	Jan.1967–Dec.1967	8	4	2	2	50.0%	nr.47–nr.65
Erik Hansen (tactical coach) Henry From (training coach)	Jan.1968–Jan.1969	11	4	1	6	36.4%	nr.45–nr.56
John Hansen (tactical coach) Henry From (training coach)	Feb.1969–Dec.1969	9	5	1	3	55.6%	nr.36–nr.54
Rudi Strittich	Jan.1970–Dec.1975	61	20	11	30	32.8%	nr.40–nr.60
Kurt "Nikkelaj" Nielsen	Jan.1976–Jun.1979	31	13	6	12	41.9%	nr.40–nr.58
Sepp Piontek	Jul.1979–Apr.1990	115	52	24	39	45.2%	nr.2–nr.54
Richard Møller Nielsen	May 1987 – May 1988a May 1990–Jun.1996	73	40	18	15	54.8%	nr.6–nr.9 nr.4–nr.15
Bo Johansson	Jul.1996–Jun.2000	40	17	9	14	42.5%	nr.6–nr.25
Morten Olsen	Jul.2000–Aug.2011b	119	60	32	27	50.4%	nr.6–nr.34
Total for all games	Oct.1908–Aug.10.2011b	763	352	149	262	46.1%	nr.1–nr.65
a) Nielsen coached 8 games in the 1988 Olympics qualification, winning 6, drawing 1, and losing 1. b) Accurate up to and including August 10, 2011.

See also

• Copenhagen XI
• Faroe Islands national football team
• Greenland national football team
• Roligan
• Sports in Denmark

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Literature

• Palle "Banks" Jørgensen (2002), "Landsholdets 681 profiler fra 1908 til i dag", TIPS-Bladet, ISBN 87-91264-01-4. (Danish)

External links

• Official national team page
• Official player and match statistics
• Official league national team page
• Official national team shop
• De Danske Roligans
• National team, players and others (statistics)

Preceded by 1992 Argentina	Confederations Cup Winners 1995 (First title)	Succeeded by 1997 Brazil
Preceded by 1988 Netherlands	European Champions 1992 (First title)	Succeeded by 1996 Germany