FC Copenhagen Women: New team impress on and off the pitch

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FC Copenhagen Women: New team impress on and off the pitch

FC Copenhagen may be the new kids on the block in women’s football, but they have already made a big impression both on and off the pitch.

One of Scandinavia’s most successful men’s clubs launched their women’s side earlier this year, entering a team into Denmark’s third tier.

Four games into the season they have won all four games, scored 16 goals and conceded just once.

Their first home game of the season attracted 5,165 fans, setting a new attendance record for a women’s game in Denmark by more than doubling the previous one.

“To be honest I am very rarely moved by a match,” said Copenhagen’s chief executive Jacob Lauesen.

“But this is a stadium with normally 100 people, there have not been 1,000 fans here for the last 10 years.

“We needed to rent additional ******* capacity and we had to open the back stand which hasn’t been used for 20 years. We had to get a blacksmith to open the emergency exit because nobody knew where the lock was.”

Copenhagen’s women’s team has been launched in the same way their men’s team was back in 1992 – by merging with another club.

Their hopes of entering a team straight into Denmark’s top female division were rejected, so Copenhagen linked with local grassroots club FC Damso and launched the new club at tier three under their licence.

The current squad consists of players on semi-professional or voluntary contracts, but the club want a full-time set-up as soon as possible and aim to be playing in Europe within five years.

Much of that depends on their commercial success off the pitch, which centres around using partners who are willing to tailor their approach to the women’s team.

“Too many teams around Europe are trying to make a bad copy of the men’s team under the excuse of a one-club mentality,” said Lauesen.

“We want to do things differently.”

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