Continental Denmark is partner of the Danish Pros club since 2001. Beside of boardings at the home games of the team we can use tickets available for game visits together with business customers. Further more Continental Denmark is also partner of FC Midjylland.

The joy only lasted a few months. When FC Copenhagen celebrated winning both the Danish championship and the cup at the back end of May 2004, the fans went wild with excitement. They had again been able to put one over their big rivals, Brøndby. But a few months later FC Copenhagen’s adversaries were laughing their heads off and many fans were gob-smacked. The proud double winners went astray in the second round of Champions League qualifying. Everything went according to plan  in the first leg. FCK won 2-1 in Slovenia against NK Gorica. But the second leg was a match the fans, players, coaches and the majority of the Danes would love to forget. Gorica won 5-0 in “Parken”, FC Copenhagen’s stadium. The tabloid “B.T.” wrote of the “biggest fiasco in the history of Danish club football.”

The history is long, very long. Copenhagen’s Bolklub was founded in 1876. It is therefore continental Europe’s oldest club. Clubs with a longer tradition are only to be found on the British Isles. Copenhagen BK’s history lasted 116 years. CBK was the first Danish championship winner and they won a total of 15 titles. They then fused with Boldklubben 1903, seven time championship winners, to become FC Copenhagen.

Parken – a modern arena purely for football – is also where the Danish national team play their home games. The same team that surprised Europe in 1992 when becoming European champions after beating Germany in the final. Excitement in Denmark knew no bounds. So everything was set up just right for FC Copenhagen to get off to a good start after being formed on 1 July 1992. The club’s ambition was to win, if possible, a major trophy every year and therefore qualify for the international stage. And this was to happen with attacking football and solid budgeting.

It was a dream start for the young club that was basically recruited from BK 1903 players that, shortly before the fusion, humiliated Bayern Munich 6-2 in the European Cup. In the final game of the season, FC Copenhagen secured the Danish championship with 3-2 victory against the local rivals Brøndby. It was however the last one until 2001. In between, the club underwent radical changes and a rejuvenation. The club was launched on the stock exchange in November 1997 and a new president was installed.

On the pitch, things were slowly back on the up again. But then, success returned in a big way after the dam had burst. Runners-up a year later, the following two seasons saw them take two further titles. The most successful season on the domestic front was 2004 when they won the double. FC Copenhagen can look back on four championships and three cup wins in their 13 year history. The founding year’s ambitions have been fulfilled, on the whole.

Only their long-term aim to be involved at the cutting edge of European club football has not yet come to fruition. The best performance so far came in the 2001/2002 season. FCK were only narrowly had to succumb to the top European team, Lazio in the final round of the Champions League qualifying. But they forced their way into the third round of the UEFA cup where the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund went through 2-0 on aggregate (1-0, 0-1).

In the current championship race, the team coached by Hans Backe now have no chance of successfully defending the title. Arch rivals Brøndby are already way out ahead with a 16 point advantage at the halfway stage. FC Copenhagen are back in fifth. But the aim is to climb back up the table and end the season in one of the league positions giving them the right to play in a European competition. It’s the only place where they can make up for the disgrace suffered against NK Gorica.