Brøndby

2019–20 season
Sporting director/Director of football	Ebbe Sand until 10 July 2019 Carsten V. Jensen from 10 July 2019
Head coach	Niels Frederiksen
Stadium	Brøndby Stadium
Danish Superliga	4th
Danish Cup	Fourth round
UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round
Top goalscorer	League: Kamil Wilczek (17) All: Kamil Wilczek (20)
Highest home attendance	21,746 (vs. Copenhagen, Superliga, 6 October 2019)
Lowest home attendance	10,295 (vs. Inter Turku, Europa League, 11 July 2019)
Home colours Away colours
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2019–20 Brøndby IF season was Brøndby IF's 39th consecutive season in top-division of the Danish football league, the 30th consecutive in Danish Superliga, and the 54th as a football club. Besides the Superliga, the club competed in the 2019–20 Danish Cup and 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. It is the first season with head coach Niels Frederiksen, after replaced he caretaker manager Martin Retov.

Club

First team staff Position Staff Head coach Niels Frederiksen Assistant coach Martin Retov Assistant coach Jesper Sørensen Fitness coach Ahron Thode Goalkeeper coach Lars Høgh Goalkeeper coach Claus Fallentin Last updated: 20 August 2019. Source: [1]

Club administration Position Staff Administrative director Jesper Jørgensen until 10. juli Administrative director Ole Palmå from 10. juli Sporting director Ebbe Sand until 10. juli Director of football Carsten Vagn Jensen from 10. juli Head of Recruitment John Møller Chief analyser Matthias Borst Team manager Thomas Andersen Kitmanager Leif Mortensen Last updated: 20 August 2019. Source: [2]

Staff changes

1 July 2019 Brøndby announced that they had hired Niels Frederiksen as their new head coach, on a two-year contract. ^[1] He joined the team after the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship that same summer. ^{[1] [2]} Besides this Matthias Jaissle left the club, ^[3] while caretaker Martin Retov, assumed his former position as assistant, along with new signing Jesper Sørensen. ^{[2] [4]} Besides this, Matthias Borst, Claus Fallentin, Lars Høgh and Ahron Thode all remained with the club. ^[5]

The day before the first competitive game of the season, Brøndby IF announced that they had replaced CEO Jesper Jørgensen with the commercial director Ole Palmå. ^[6] At the same time, it was announced that Ebbe Sand resigned from his job as sporting director after only six months in the job, as Carsten V. Jensen was hired as Executive Football Director, and Sand did not want another role in the staff of the club. ^[6]

Goal of the season

In March 2019, the club updatede their "Strategi 6.4", which among other things meant the club changed the sporting goals, so as the club in this and next season should qualify for the championship playoff in the Superligaen, as to secure European qualification from 2021-22. ^[7]

Ebbe Sand announced before the end of the previous season, that it was an objective of the club to slim the squad, and make it younger, i order for the clubs talents to make their breakthrough as senior players easier. ^{[8] [9]}

Stadium and attendance

On 13 July 2019, Brøndby IF announced that they had secured the Danish authorities permit to place a video surveillance system at Brøndby Stadium ^[10] The technology should be used to recognize fans who had quarantine from the stadium, and was used the first time for the first home game of the season, against Silkeborg IF. ^[10]

After the record for most season passes the previous season, the record for renewals were broken this season. ^[11] 8,157 renewed their season pass, which equalled an increase of 27% compared to the year before. ^[11]

Season

The season officially started with a VO2max-test on 19 June, and the first training session was on 20 June 2019. ^[12] After this they played som friendlies, before the first competitive game on 11 July, against FC Inter Turku from Finland.

Players

First team

Parts of this article (those related to 6 July 2019) need to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2019)

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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   GER Marvin Schwäbe 2 DF   DEN Jens Martin Gammelby 3 DF   GER Anthony Jung 5 MF   KOS Besar Halimi 6 DF   ISL Hjörtur Hermannsson 7 MF   GER Dominik Kaiser 8 MF   DEN Kasper Fisker 10 MF   GER Hany Mukhtar 11 FW   DEN Mikael Uhre 12 MF   SWE Simon Tibbling 14 MF   DEN Kevin Mensah 16 GK   DEN Michael Tørnes 17 FW   DEN Andreas Bruus 18 MF   DEN Jesper Lindstrøm 19 MF   DEN Morten Frendrup

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW   POL Kamil Wilczek 21 MF   DEN Lasse Vigen Christensen 22 MF   CRO Josip Radošević 23 DF   FIN Paulus Arajuuri 24 DF   DEN Joel Kabongo 25 DF   TRI Luke Singh (loaned from Toronto FC until 31 December 2019) 27 MF   SWE Simon Hedlund 28 DF   DEN Anton Skipper Hendriksen 29 MF   DEN Peter Bjur 30 GK   DEN Mads Hermansen 42 MF   NOR Tobias Børkeeiet 50 FW   CRO Ante Erceg — DF   SVK Gregor Sikosek (loaned to NK Domzale from 27 August 2018 until 31 December 2019) — MF   DEN Rezan Corlu (loaned to Lyngby BK from 21 June 2019)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos	Player	Transfer form	Type	Date	Transferfee	Ref.
16	GK	Michael Tørnes	Vendsyssel FF	Transfer	3 June 2019		[14]
18	MF	Jesper Lindstrøm	Masterclass	Own	3 June 2019		[15]
29	MF	Peter Bjur	Masterclass	Own	3 June 2019		[15]
30	GK	Mads Hermansen	Masterclass	Own	3 June 2019		[15]
--	FW	Andreas Bruus	FC Roskilde	Loan ended	30 June 2019		[16]
--	DF	Christian Enemark	HB Køge	Loan ended	30 June 2019		[17]
--	MF	Rezan Corlu	AS Roma	Transfer	21 June 2019		[18]
42	MF	Tobias Børkeeiet	Stabæk Fotball	Transfer	5 July 2019		[19]
Total						€ 1,300,000

Updated: 6 July 2019 Source: brondby.com

Out

No.	Pos	Player	Transfer to	Type	Date	Transferfee	Ref
3	DF	Benedikt Röcker	SV Wehen Wiesbaden	End of contract	30 June 2019		[20]
16	GK	Benjamin Bellot	BSG Chemie Leipzig	End of contract	30 June 2019		[21]
18	FW	Nikolai Laursen	PSV Eindhoven	Loan ended	30 June 2019		[22]
40	GK	Casper Hauervig	HB Køge	Transfer	30 June 2019		[23]
--	DF	Christian Enemark	Næstved Boldklub	End of Contract	30 June 2019		[17] [24]
--	MF	Rezan Corlu	Lyngby BK	Loan	21 June 2019		[18]
Total						€ 0

Updated: 21 June 2019 Source: brondby.com

Brøndby Player of the Month

Brøndby Player of the Month is an monthly award, in which the fans decides who has been the best player in the last month. The fans can vote on three players picked by the club. The voting begins after the last game each month, and is done through Facebook ^[25]

Month	No.	Pos	Player	Ref	Nominated	Ref
July	7	MF	Dominik Kaiser	[26]	Kamil Wilczek Anthony Jung	[27]
August						[28]
September				[29]	Andreas Maxsø Josip Radosevic	[30]
October
November
December
February
March
April
May

Pre-season

  Win   Draw   Loss

Albertslund v Brøndby

22 June 2019	Albertslund	0–3	Brøndby	Albertslund
13:30 [31]	Wilczek 28' Uhre 74' Hedlund 75'	Report		Stadium: Albert Park

Lech Poznan v Brøndby

26 June 2019	Lech Poznan	1–0	Brøndby	Opalenica, Poland
18:00	Puchacz 10'	Report		Stadium: Hotel Remes

Wisla Plock v Brøndby

29 June 2019	Wisla Plock	1–1	Brøndby	Opalenica, Poland
16:00	Stevanovic 12'	Report	Uhre 84'	Stadium: Hotel Remes

Union Berlin v Brøndby

6 July 2019	Union Berlin	2–1	Brøndby	Berlin, Tyskland
15:30 [32]	Polter 63' Mees 90'	Report	Arajuuri 82'	Stadium: Stadion An der Alten Försterei Attendance: 12,307 [33]

Competitions

Overview

Superliga

Overview

Last updated: 26 July 2020 Source: brondby.com

Regular season

Championship round

Points and goals will carry over in full from the regular season.

Matches

Brøndby IF's matches in the regular season of 2019–20. ^[36]

  Win   Draw   Loss

Brøndby v Silkeborg

14 July 2019 1	Brøndby	3–0	Silkeborg	Brøndby
18:00	Arajuuri 14' Kaiser 36' Wilczek 74'	Report	Rochester Sørensen  72'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 13,056 Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen

Randers v Brøndby

21 July 2019 2	Randers	2–2	Brøndby	Randers
16:00	Riis 8' Piesinger  51' Graves Jensen  84' Egho 90+5'	Report	Kaiser 9'  72' Arajuuri  71'  90+4' Uhre 90+2'	Stadium: Randers Stadion Attendance: 5,984 Referee: Michael Tykgaard

Brøndby v OB

28 July 2019 3	Brøndby	3–2	OB	Brøndby
18:00	Lindstrøm 25' Kaiser  59' Jung  67' Wilczek 79', 88'	Report	Barrett Laursen 53' Drachmann  47' Kadrii 67' (str.) Lund  73'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 13,689 Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard

Brøndby v Horsens

4 August 2019 4	Brøndby	1–2	Horsens	Brøndby
16:00	Wilczek 10'  86' Arajuuri  41' Jung  90'	Report	5' 17' Hansson 60' (sm.) Arajuuri  73' Lumb  81' Thorsen	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 15,145 Referee: Anders Poulsen

Hobro v Brøndby

11 August 2019 5	Hobro	0–2	Brøndby	Hobro
18:00	33' Sabbi	Report	Hjörtur Hermannsson Wilczek 52', 85' Mensah  60'	Stadium: Hobro Stadion Attendance: 4,186 Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen

Brøndby v AaB

18 August 2019 6	Brøndby	2–1	AaB	Brøndby
18:00	Radošević  14' Kaiser 32' Wilczek 49'	Report	Olsen 55' Christensen  64'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 11,349 Referee: Jens Maae

Brøndby v AGF

25 August 2019 7	Brøndby	0–3	AGF	Brøndby
18:00	Børkeeiet  44' Hermannsson  85'	Report	Amini  38' Helenius  45+3' Duncan  46' Blume 57' Ankersen 86' Mortensen 90+3'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 14,145 Referee: Mads Kristoffersen

Midtjylland v Brøndby

1 September 2019 8	Midtjylland	1–0	Brøndby	Herning
18:00	Skipper 7' ( o.g.) Frank  25' Mabil  31'	Report	Lindstrøm  10'	Stadium: MCH Arena Attendance: 10,944 Referee: Jorgen Burchardt

Brøndby v Nordsjælland

15 September 2019 9	Brøndby	4–2	Nordsjælland	Brøndby
18:00	Kaiser 32' Larsson  43' Radošević 44' Mukhtar 59' Maxsø  71' Wilczek 86' ( pen.)	Report	Thychosen  39' Francis 54' Atanga 64' Jenssen  85'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 14,648 Referee: Jakob Kehlet

Esbjerg v Brøndby

22 September 2019 10	Esbjerg	3–1	Brøndby	Esbjerg
16:00	Petre 13' Kauko 18' Halsti  57' Sørensen 71'	Report	Kaiser 37' Lindstrøm  38'	Stadium: Blue Water Arena Attendance: 5,907 Referee: Michael Tykgaard

SønderjyskE v Brøndby

29 September 2019 11	SønderjyskE	2–1	Brøndby	Haderslev
18:00	Jakobsen 33' Hassan  42' Banggard 80'  90+5' Ekani  88'	Report	Kaiser  14' 85'	Stadium: Sydbank Park Attendance: 6,067 Referee: Anders Poulsen

Brøndby v Copenhagen

6 October 2019 12	Brøndby	3–1	Copenhagen	Brøndby
14:00	Hedlund 6'  45+1' Wilczek 23' 76' Hermannsson  28' Frendrup  80'	Report	Maxsø 30' ( o.g.) Bendtner  31' Stage  41' Falk  65' Zeca  75'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 21,746 Referee: Jorgen Burchardt

Lyngby v Brøndby

20 October 2019 13	Lyngby	0–3	Brøndby	Kongens Lyngby
18:00	Tshiembe  67'	Report	Wilczek 38', 70' ( pen.) Hermannsson  60' Kaiser 72'	Stadium: Lyngby Stadion Attendance: 8,547 Referee: Mads Kristoffersen

Brøndby v Randers

27 October 2019 14	Brøndby	5–2	Randers	Brøndby
16:00	Wilczek 25', 32' ( pen.)  90+2' Kaiser 45+3' Mukhtar 69' Jung  79' Piesinger 90' ( o.g.)	Report	Egho 10'  79' Marxen 16' Carlgren  29' Rømer  62' Piesinger  79' Conboy  90+1'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 17,558 Referee: Jens Maae

Silkeborg v Brøndby

4 November 2019 15	Silkeborg	0–1	Brøndby	Silkeborg
19:00	Gertsen  53' Hagelskjær  84' Romo  90+1'	Summary	Hedlund 14'	Stadium: JYSK Park Attendance: 5,432 Referee: Jakob Kehlet

Brøndby v Esbjerg

10 November 2019 16	Brøndby	2–1	Esbjerg	Brøndby
16:00	Hermannsson  11' Mráz 29' 35' Frendrup  63'	Summary	Parunashvili  51' Yakovenko 75'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 12,392 Referee: Mads Kristoffersen

AGF v Brøndby

24 November 2019 17	AGF	2 – 1	Brøndby	Århus
18:00	Bundu 32' Mortensen 66'	Summary	Rosted  21' Maxsø  35' Jung  68' Wilczek 76'  85' Mráz  87'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 14,043 Referee: Morten Krogh

Copenhagen v Brøndby

1 December 2019 18	Copenhagen	2–1	Brøndby	Østerbro
14:45	Fischer 28', 90'	Report	Wilczek 6'	Stadium: Parken Referee: Jakob Kehlet

Brøndby v Midtjylland

8 December 2019 19	Brøndby	1–2	Midtjylland	Brøndby
21:00	Wilczek 64'	Report	Mabil 60' Onyeka 82'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Referee: Jorgen Burchardt

Brøndby v Hobro

15 December 2019 20	Brøndby	1–1	Hobro	Brøndby
19:00	Hedlund 37'	Report	Kristoffersen 8'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Referee: Michael Tykgaard

OB v Brøndby

16 February 2020 21	OB	0–2	Brøndby	Odense
21:00		Report	Jung 8' Christensen 60'	Stadium: Odense Stadion Referee: Michael Tykgaard

Brøndby v Lyngby

1 March 2020 23	Brøndby	1–0	Lyngby	Brøndby
19:00	Hedlund 53'	Report		Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Referee: Jens Maae

Nordsjælland v Brøndby

8 March 2020 24	Nordsjælland	2–2	Brøndby	Farum
22:00	Damsgaard 39' Atanga 60'	Report	Slimane 6' Mráz 44'	Stadium: Right to Dream Park Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen

Brøndby v SønderjyskE

2 June 2020 25	Brøndby	1–0	SønderjyskE	Brøndby
22:00	Lindstrøm  56' 61' Tibbling  88' Uhre  90+2'	Report	Eskesen  39' Absalonsen  44' Ekani  70' Jakobsen  71' Marfelt  81'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Referee: Sandi Putros

Horsens v Brøndby

7 June 2020 26	Horsens	3–2	Brøndby	Horsens
20:00	Hansson 52', 60' Therkildsen 90+1'	Report	Jung 18'  80'  83' Rosted 64'  90' Tibbling  81'	Stadium: CASA Arena Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen

Danish Cup

Matches

Brøndby v SønderjyskE

30 October 2019 Fourth round	Brøndby	0–1	SønderjyskE	Brøndby
12:00		Report	Banggaard  66' Bah  79' Lieder 84' Jónsson  86'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadium Referee: Jens Maae

UEFA Europa League

First-qualifying round

  Win   Draw   Loss

Brøndby v Inter Turku

11 July 2019	Brøndby	4–1	Inter Turku	Brøndby
19:00	Wilczek 5', 67' Tibbling 71' Fisker 78'	Report	Furuholm 22'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 10,295 Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson ( Sweden)

Inter Turku v Brøndby

18 July 2019	Inter Turku	2–0 (3–4 agg.)	Brøndby	Kupittaa, Turku
18:30 ( Lokal tid)	Markkula 52' Valenčič 56' Muniz  81'	Report	Jung  3' Fisker  75' Kaiser  90'	Stadium: Veritas Stadion Attendance: 3,711 Referee: Keith Kennedy ( Northern Ireland)

Second-qualifying round

Lechia Gdańsk v Brøndby

25 July 2019	Lechia Gdańsk	2–1	Brøndby	Gdańsk, Poland
19:00	Paixão 26' (str.) Mladenovic  55' Lipski 63' Makowski  87'	Report	Hedlund 59'	Stadium: Gdańsk Stadion Attendance: 25,875 Referee: John Beaton ( Scotland)

Brøndby v Lechia Gdańsk

1 August 2019	Brøndby	4–1 ( a.e.t.) (5–3 agg.)	Lechia Gdańsk	Brøndby
19:30	Arajuuri 15' Jung  45' Wilczek 53' Lindstrøm 94', 118' Uhre  102' Børkeeiet  105'	Report	Paixão 66' Peszko  105' Mladenović  105'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 16,426 [37] Referee: Miroslav Zelinka ( Czech Republic)

Third-qualifying round

Brøndby v S.C. Braga

8 August 2019	Brøndby	2–4	S.C. Braga	Brøndby
18:30	Kaiser 15', 50'  76'	Report	Paulinho 18' A. Horta 20'  38' Viana  55' R. Horta 90+2' Hermannsson 90+5' (sm.)	Stadium: Brøndby Stadion Attendance: 15,642 Referee: Tamás Bognár

SC Braga v Brøndby

15 August 2019	SC Braga	3–1 (7–3 agg.)	Brøndby	Braga, Portugal
20:45		Report		Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Braga

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