Akademisk Boldklub
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| Full name | Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe |
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| Nickname(s) | Akademikerne (The Academics) |
| Short name | AB |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Ground |
Gladsaxe Stadion, Gladsaxe |
| Capacity | 13,800 (8,000 seated) |
| Chairman | Ronny Saul |
| Manager | Søren Bjerg |
| League | Danish 2nd Division |
| 2014–15 | 1st Division, 11th (relegated) |
Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (or AB, AB Gladsaxe) is a Danish professional football club from Gladsaxe north of Copenhagen, currently playing at the 3rd highest level in Danish domestic football, the 2nd Division.
The club was formed in 1889 by a group of academics, and the only requirement to play for the club at that time was to be a university student. The club was dominant in early Danish football and won the Danish championship, which was introduced in 1913, in 1919 and 1921. In all, AB has won the championship on 9 occasions (1919, 1921, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952 and 1967).
One of the most renowned players of the club is Harald Bohr, the brother of Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr, who himself played a number of games as goalkeeper. Other famous footballers from the AB history include Knud Lundberg, who represented the Danish national team in not one, but three sports (basketball, handball and football), and Karl Aage Hansen, who scored 17 goals in 22 matches for the national team. Both Lundberg and Hansen played for the club in its heyday, from the end of the Second World War to the mid-fifties, a period when the club won four championships in ten years.
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