Denmark

Denmark.

BK Frem won the Second Division championship. The other two promoted teams were

Brønshøj Boldklub and

Herning Fremad.

First Division. Two outsiders and two leaders.

B 1909 finished last with 18 points.

KB – 15th with 18 points. Rather strange, for this team had some good players, including national team members like goalkeeper Ole Quist.

B 1901 – 14th with 23 points and completing the group of relegated teams.

Ikast fS – 13th with 25 points.

B 93 – 12th with 27 points. Weak season, but a historic one in the same time.

Esbjerg fB – 11th with 28 points.

Køge Boldklub – 10th with 29 points.

Kolding IF – 9th with 30 points. Jan Molby in this squad, still unknown player.

Næstved IF – 8th with 32 points.

Vejle B – 7th with 33 points.

Hvidovre IF – 6th with 33 points.

Lyngby BK – 5th with 34 points.

Brøndby IF – 4th with 34 points. Young and yet unknown Michael Laudrup in the squad. The only team playing with more than sponsor’s name on their shirts – there were no more teams with pretty much every player playing with different add.

B 1903 – 3rd with 35 points. Not in the title race, though.

AGF – 2nd with 40 points. A fovourite this year, but lost the title by a single point. However, they were the highest scoring team in the league – 61 goals. As for players – the veteran star striker of the 1970s, Henning Jensen, and one of newer national team goalkeepers, Troels Rasmussen.

And the new champions – OB Odense. Minimal victory, just by a point, but they clinched the title. 18 wins, 5 ties, 7 matches lost, 51-28 goal-difference, and 41 points. Since OB Odense was one of the better known abroad Danish clubs back then, it was a bit curious that this their only 2nd title – the first came in 1977. As for the team – hardly any recognizable names, but such was Danish football traditionally, so no surprise. Even professionalism did not produce concentration of strong players in one or two clubs – good players continued to be spread thinly, the best aiming to move abroad as soon as possible. Thus OB Odense was nothing special by international measures, but good enough collective to win the championship.