2008–09 Danish Superliga
19th season of Danish Superliga
Football league season
The 2008–09 Danish Superliga was the 19th season of Danish Superliga league championship, which determines the winners of the Danish football championship , governed by the Danish Football Association . The season started on 19 July 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. The defending champions were Aalborg BK .
The Danish champions qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League qualifying round. Runners-up and 3rd placed team qualified for 2009–10 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. 11th and 12th placed teams were relegated to the 1st Division . The 1st Division champions and runners-up were promoted to the Superliga.
The following teams were promoted to Superliga after the end of the 2007–08 season :
The following teams were relegated from Superliga after the end of the 2007–08 season :
Participating clubs
Location of teams in
Danish Superliga 2008–09
Stadia and locations
Team
City
Stadium
Capacity
AaB
Aalborg
Energi Nord Arena
13,800
AC Horsens
Horsens
Casa Arena Horsens
8,000
AGF
Aarhus
NRGi Park
21,000
Brøndby IF
Brøndby
Brøndby Stadium
29,000
Esbjerg fB
Esbjerg
Blue Water Arena
18,000
F.C. Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Parken Stadium
34,098
FC Midtjylland
Herning
SAS Arena
11,809
FC Nordsjælland
Farum
Farum Park
10,000
OB
Odense
Fionia Park
15,761
Randers FC
Randers
Essex Park Randers
12,000
SønderjyskE
Haderslev
Haderslev Fodboldstadion
10,000
Vejle BK
Vejle
Vejle Stadion
10,500
Managerial changes
League table
Source:
Danish Superliga Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) Champions;
(R) Relegated
Notes:
^ a b c Because F.C. Copenhagen , winners of 2008–09 Danish Cup , also won the league, Odense BK as league runners-up earned a spot in the third while cup runners-up AaB qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
^ Denmark was ranked second in the UEFA Fair Play Ranking[ 16] and thereby earned an additional Europa League spot, with the winners of national Fair Play competition entering in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. That spot was granted to Randers FC because they were the best team in the national Fair Play competition which has not already qualified for Europe.[ 17]
Results
Matchday 1–11
Source:
dbu.dk (in Danish) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Matchday 12–33
Source:
dbu.dk (in Danish) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Goals
Source: dbu.dk (in Danish)
Top goalscorers
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
AaB : Anders Due , Thomas Enevoldsen
AC Horsens : Søren Friis , Casper Johansen
AGF : Ole Budtz , Ulrik Lindkvist
Brøndby IF : Kasper Lorentzen
Esbjerg fB : Jeppe Mehl , Emmanuel Ukpai
F.C. Copenhagen : Jesper Grønkjær , Dame N'Doye , Zdeněk Pospěch , Oscar Wendt
FC Midtjylland : Kim Christensen , Winston Reid
FC Nordsjælland : Søren Christensen
Randers FC : Issah Ahmed , Mikkel Beckmann , Carsten Fredgaard , Kenneth Møller Pedersen
SønderjyskE : Morten Bertolt
Vejle BK : Valentino Lai , Ibrahim Salou
1 goal
AaB : Michael Beauchamp , Luton Shelton , Marcus Tracy
AC Horsens : Adam Eckersley , Thomas Kortegaard , Jimmy Mayasi , Simon Nagel , Kenneth Emil Petersen , Allan Søgaard
AGF : Davit Devdariani , Frederik Krabbe , Michael Lumb , Dan Thomassen
Brøndby IF : Stefán Gíslason , Peter Madsen , Thomas Rasmussen , Joseph Elanga
Esbjerg fB : Kári Árnason , Gunnar Heiðar Þorvaldsson , Mikkel Vendelbo
F.C. Copenhagen : Hjalte Nørregaard
FC Midtjylland : Ken Fagerberg , Gheorghe Florescu , Christian Sivebæk
FC Nordsjælland : Benjamin Kibebe , Henrik Kildentoft , Issey Nakajima-Farran , Stephan Petersen , Simon Richter
OB : Eric Djemba-Djemba
Randers FC : Tiago Targino
SønderjyskE : Anders Egholm
Vejle BK : Martin Borre , Adda Djeziri , Allan Gaarde , Adeshina Lawal , Sladan Peric , Pablo Piñones-Arce , Chidi Dauda Omeje , Thomas Røll , Rasmus Würtz , Bora Zivkovic
Own goals
Hat-tricks
Season statistics
Scoring
Cards
Attendances
Source: hvemvandt.dk [permanent dead link ] (in Danish)
Team
Average
Highest
Lowest
Copenhagen
20,038
32,856
11,286
Brøndby
16,908
26,014
9,689
AGF
11,516
18,239
8,246
OB
10,218
15,486
6,662
Midtjylland
7,777
10,613
5,670
Esbjerg
7,229
12,081
4,049
AaB
7,168
9,470
5,415
Vejle
6,524
10,092
3,429
Randers
6,059
8,550
3,322
Horsens
4,685
8,217
2,604
Nordsjælland
4,020
8,443
2,019
SønderjyskE
3,420
6,988
1,609
Player of the Month
Kits
See also
References
External links
Domestic leagues Domestic cups European competitions Related to the national team Club seasons
Superliga
Domestic leagues Domestic cups League cups UEFA competitions