Akademisk Boldklub

The foundation

Akademisk Boldklub was founded on February 26, 1889, through a merger of the two academic sports clubs Fredericia Studenternes Kricketklub and Polyteknisk Boldklub. Fredericia Studenternes Kricketklub was a cricket club founded in 1884 by graduating students from the Latin School in Fredericia. When they became students in 1883, they moved to Copenhagen to study at the University of Copenhagen. The following year, they founded the club so that they could play cricket again. Like most other clubs at the time, Fredericia Studenternes Kricketklub originally only had cricket on the program. However, from around 1887, football became more popular in Denmark as Frederik Markmann, chairman of the board of Københavns Boldklub, took the initiative to translate the laws of the English Football Association to Danish in collaboration with three clubmates and Holger Forchhammer from Fredericia Studenternes Kricketklub. The club got football on the program from then on and participated in Københavns Boldklub's Medal Football Competition. Holger Forchhammer and his brother Johannes were key people in Fredericia Studenternes Kricketklub at that time. Holger Forchhammer took initiative to start a collaboration with Herlufsholm Kostskole, where Holger's father was the rector, to recruit talented players to the team. Holger also became board member of AB's first board and chairman of the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark from 1897 to 1899,…

Danish Champions: Winners (9): 1919, 1921, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1967 Silver (10): 1917, 1932, 1936, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1970 Bronze (8): 1929, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1956, 1999, 2000 Danish Cup: Winners (1): 1998–99 Runners-up (3): 1955–56, 1994–95, 2000–01 Danish Super Cup: Winners (1): 1999 Copenhagen Champions: Winners (8): 1890, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1900 Silver (5): 1891, 1897, 1898, 1901, 1908 Bronze (3): 1904, 1905, 1907 Copenhagen Cup: Winners (6): 1936, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1950 Runners-up (6): 1914, 1915, 1925, 1931, 1946, 1953 51 seasons in the Highest Danish League 29 seasons in the Second Highest Danish League 11 seasons in the Third Highest Danish League