Farum BK
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| Full name | Football Club Nordsjælland |
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| Nickname(s) | The Wild Tigers |
| Short name | FCN |
| Founded | 1 July 2003 |
| Ground | Right to Dream Park, Farum |
| Capacity | 11,100 |
| Owner | Pathways Group (99 %) |
| Chairman | Tom Vernon |
| Head coach | Kasper Hjulmand |
| League | Danish Superliga |
| 2015–16 | Danish Superliga, 9th |
| Website | Club home page |
Football Club Nordsjælland (FCN; Danish pronunciation: [ˈnoɐ̯ɕɛlɑnˀ]) is a professional Danish football team from the North Zealand town of Farum. Founded as Farum Boldklub from the merger of the town's two football clubs Farum IK and Stavnsholt BK in 1991, the club changed its name to FC Nordsjælland in 2003.
FCN plays in the Danish Superliga, winning its first medal in the 2002–03 season, taking third place. Since then, the Wild Tigers have made four appearances in Europe under both the old UEFA Cup format in 2003–04, 2008–09 and in the UEFA Europa League during the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. In 2010, the club won its first Danish Cup and successfully defended it the following year in 2011, beating Midtjylland in both finals. FCN won the 2011-12 Danish Superliga in May 2012 which qualified the team to participate in the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League.
Nordsjælland plays its home matches at Right to Dream Park, which has a capacity of 10,100 of which 9,800 seating and 300 standing spectators. The club is known for focusing on youth and talent development. Their playing style is often referred to as aggressive and attacking minded football, where they play a 4–2–3–1 system.
Established on 1 January 1991, from the merger of two football clubs, Farum Idræts Klub (formed in 1910) and Stavnsholt Boldklub af 1974, both from the then Farum municipality (now consolidated with Værløse as the Furesø municipality), Farum BK would become one of the few merger success stories in Danish football, but not without controversy. The club was an initiative local Farum residence and of then local mayor Peter Brixtofte, whom took a personal interest in the club, as well as garnered sponsorship for the team. The club kit colours became a combination of the two merged clubs, the red and white of Stavnsholt with the yellow and blue of F.I.K. combined into a kit with yellow and red striped shirts and dark blue shorts and socks, which is still used in some form to this day. Colours were not the only thing the newly formed club inherited, as Thomas Andreasen who had been with Stavnsholt BK was carried over into the new Farum squad, Andreasen would go on to make a record 295 appearances, playing from the Denmark Series all the way to the Danish Superliga, until his departure from the club in 2007.
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