Fremad Amager

BK Fremad Amager

Full name	Boldklubben Fremad Amager (mother club) Fremad Amager Elite ApS (professional section)
Nickname(s)	Englene (en: The Angels) Ama'rkanerne
Founded	10 June 1910
Ground	Sundby Idrætspark, Copenhagen
Capacity	7,200 (2,500 seated)
Chairman	Erik Truelsen (mother club) Flemming Kjellerup (professional section)
Manager	John 'Faxe' Jensen
League	Danish 2nd Division, Group 2
2014–15	2nd Division East, 4th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

The club's house since 1975.^[1]

Boldklubben Fremad Amager (Fremad A for short) is a Danish professional football club based in the district of Amager Vest, Copenhagen. As of the 2013/2014-season, the club's first team play in 2nd Division, East group. The club consists of an amateur department and a professional section, that is owned 80% by Fremad Amager Elite ApS – a company created on 1 January 2014 – while the remaining 20% is owned by the amateur department of the club. The club have played their home games at Sundby Idrætspark since 1922.^[1] Fremad Amager's last spell in the highest football league in Denmark was in the autumn of 1994. Since the promotion to the nationwide football leagues in 1929, the club has spent the majority of its history, with the exception of three seasons, in the different division structures (known as "Danmarksturneringen i fodbold"). The club reached the Danish Cup final in 1972 while playing at the second highest level, but lost against Vejle Boldklub, who had also won the Danish championship in 1971.^[1] As a result, Fremad Amager participated in the 1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup, but did not advance beyond the first round.^[2]

The club was co-founder of the representative team Alliancen in 1940 and in 1949 they also became members of the competing representative team Stævnet until both football combinations ceased existing in the 1980s.^[3] On 1 July 2008, the club participated in the formation of the superstructure FC Amager together with neighbouring clubs Dragør Boldklub, Kastrup Boldklub and Kløvermarken FB. The merger was short-lived. After only 8-month of existence, the merger club went bankrupt in March 2009 at the start of second half of the 2008–09 season. The league licence, that the merger team was playing under, was returned to Fremad Amager, who was relegated to the lower ranking regional football league, Copenhagen Series, shortly before the club's 100 years anniversary.^[1] Having been described as a working class team, the club enjoy long-standing rivalries against neighbouring clubs Boldklubben Frem, Kastrup Boldklub and Boldklubben 1908.

Team colours and crest

Boldklubben Fremad Amager's club colours are blue and white. The team's home kit consists of a blue shirt, white shirts and blue socks, while the away kit can have different colours – as specified in the club's constitution.^[4]

The current club shield was introduced in 1952, replacing a circular emblem. For the club's centenary celebrations in 2010, the emblem was inscribed in a green-coloured wreath consisting of crossed conventionalized branches of the olive tree (similar to the flag of the United Nations) and text above and below the shield noting the centenary.

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  1952 – present

Kit evolution

–2013 Home colours –2013 Away colours

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Years	Kit manufacturer	Main shirt sponsor		Back of shirt sponsor
		Brand	Company name	Brand	Company name
2010–2012	Adidas	Hotel Amager PUB		N/A
2012–2014		Fagfolkenes Flytteforening		Clausen's Service
2014–		City Container		Hafnov's Ejendomsservice

Players

Current squad

As of 28 January 2016^[5]

No. Position Player 1 GK Kim Drejs 3 DF Villads Bache 4 DF Mike Mortensen 6 DF Christian Groth Møller 7 MF Martin Jensen 8 MF Cem Vardar 9 FW Olcay Şenoğlu [6] 10 MF Mohammed Abdalas 11 MF Malte Meier Carlssen 12 MF Marc Wehner 13 MF Johannes Madsen

No. Position Player 15 FW Christian Holst 16 FW Kristian Karsum [7] 17 FW Finnur Justinussen [8] 18 FW Emil Vatani 19 FW Nicolas Mortensen 20 FW Younes Nielsen 22 MF Rune Friis 24 GK Alexander Horsebøg TBD MF Heini Vatnsdal TBD MF Hakan Redzep [9] TBD DF Morten Rasmussen [10]

Retired numbers

12 – De Blå/Hvide Engle (official fan club)^[11][12]

Club's honours

Domestic

• Danish football championship
  • Runner-up (2): 1939–40, 1940–41
  • Third place (1): 1946–47
• Kvalifikationsligaen (II)
  • Runner-up (1): 1994 (spring)
• A-rækken (II)
  • Winners (2): 1924–25, 1925–26
• Oprykningsserien/2. Serie/2nd Division/1st Division (II)
  • Runner-up (7): 1930–31, 1935–36 (east), 1937–38, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1993 (fall)
• B-rækken (III)
  • Winners (1): 1920–21
• 3rd Division/2nd Division (III)
  • Winners (4): 1969 (east), 1971 (east), 1987 (east), 1991 (east, spring)
  • Runner-up (5): 1954–55, 1958, 1968 (east), 1991 (east), 2007–08 (east)
• Kvalifikationsturneringen/Danmarksserien (IV)
  • Winners (3): 1964, 1974^‡ (group 1), 1976^‡ (group 1)
  • Runner-up (1): 2010–11 (group 1)
• Københavnsserien (V)
  • Winners (3): 1983^‡, 1994^‡, 2009–10
• DBU Pokalen
  • Runner-up (1): 1971–72
• KBUs Pokalturnering
  • Winners (1): 1952–53
  • Runner-up (1): 1933
• Fælledklubbernes Pokalturnering
  • Winners (1): 1924

^‡: Won by reserve team

European

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
  • First round (1): 1972–73

Achievements

• 20 seasons in the Highest Danish League^[13]
• 41 seasons in the Second Highest Danish League^[13]
• 25 seasons in the Third Highest Danish League^[13]
• 3 seasons in the Fourth Highest Danish League^[14][15]
• 1 season in the Fifth Highest Danish League^[16]

References

1. Jacob Schneider (2010-06-10). "Fra arbejderklub til fodbold-'brand' i krise". Amager Bladet. Retrieved 2014-04-25. Archived
2. Tom Hermansen (27 May 2011). "Elevatorklubben vil op igen". Tipsbladet. Retrieved 2014-04-25. Archived
3. Jørgensen, Palle "Banks" (2002). Landsholdets 681 profiler fra 1908 til i dag. TIPS-Bladet. p. 3. ISBN 87-91264-01-4.
4. Fremad Amager. "Vedtægter for Boldklubben Fremad Amager". www.fremad-amager.dk. Retrieved 2014-04-22. Archived
5. "Players". Fremad Amager. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-21. Archived
6. "Fremad Amager henter Olcay Senoglu". bold.dk. 18 November 2015.
7. "Fremad Amager henter defensivspiller i B93". bold.dk. 15 December 2015.
8. "VIKING TIL FREMAD AMAGER". Fremad Amager. 9 October 2015.
9. "Fremad A. snupper Redzep". bold.dk. 28 January 2016.
10. "Molle drager til Fremad Amager". bold.dk. 28 January 2016.
11. "Trøje 12 'sidder' nu på fanklubben". Ken Foltmar, Fremad Amager Online. Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
12. "Fanklubben er nu officiel 12. mand". Fanklubben De Blå/Hvide Engle – Fremad Amager's Officielle Fanklub. 7 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
13. haslund.info. "Deltagelse i Danmarksturneringen – Fremad Amager". www.haslund.info. Retrieved 2013-09-05. Archived
14. Dansk Boldspil-Union/DBU København. "Turneringer & resultater – Stilling – Herre-DS, Pulje 1 (2011)". www.dbu.dk. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
15. In 1963 and 1964, the club's first team played in the Danish 4th Division/Kvalifikationsturneringen.
16. Dansk Boldspil-Union/DBU København. "Turneringer & resultater – Stilling – KS Herre 09/10 (2010)". www.dbu.dk. Retrieved 2013-09-08.

External links

• Official website (Danish)

Coordinates: 55°38′47″N 12°35′57″E / 55.64639°N 12.59917°E