2013–14 Danish Superliga

The 2013–14 Danish Superliga season was the 24th season of the Danish Superliga, which decided the Danish football championship.

Danish Superliga

Season	2013–14
Champions	AaB
Relegated	AGF Viborg FF
Champions League	AaB F.C. Copenhagen
Europa League	FC Midtjylland Brøndby IF Esbjerg fB
Matches played	198
Goals scored	543 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Thomas Dalgaard (18 goals)
Biggest home win	AaB 5–0 Viborg FF
Biggest away win	SønderjyskE 1–5 OB FC Vestsjælland 0–4 SønderjyskE
Highest scoring	OB 3–6 AGF
Highest attendance	32,846 F.C. Copenhagen 1-1 Brøndby IF[1]
Lowest attendance	1,656 SønderjyskE 1-0 Esbjerg fB[2]
← 2012–13 2014–15 →

Teams

AC Horsens and Silkeborg IF finished the 2012–13 season in 11th and 12th place, respectively, and were relegated to the 2013–14 1st Division.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2012–13 1st Division champions Viborg FF and the runners-up FC Vestsjælland.

Stadia and locations

AaB

AGF

Brøndby

Esbjerg

Midtjylland

Nordsjælland

Vestsjælland

OB

Randers

SønderjyskE

Viborg

Copenhagen

Locations of the Danish Superliga 2013–14 teams

Club	Location	Stadium	Turf	Capacity	2012–13 position
AaB	Aalborg	Nordjyske Arena	Natural	13,797	5th
AGF	Aarhus	NRGi Park	Natural	20,032	7th
Brøndby IF	Brøndby	Brøndby Stadium	Natural	29,000	9th
Esbjerg fB	Esbjerg	Blue Water Arena	Natural	18,000	4th
F.C. Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Parken	Natural	38,065	1st
FC Midtjylland	Herning	MCH Arena	Natural	11,800	6th
FC Nordsjælland	Farum	Farum Park	Artificial	10,100	2nd
FC Vestsjælland	Slagelse	Harboe Arena Slagelse	Natural	10,000	1D, 2nd
OB	Odense	TRE-FOR Park	Natural	15,633	10th
Randers FC	Randers	AutoC Park Randers	Natural	10,300	3rd
SønderjyskE	Haderslev	Haderslev Fodboldstadion (until 7 December 2013) Sydbank Park (from 8 December 2013)	Natural	10,000	8th
Viborg FF	Viborg	Energi Viborg Arena	Natural	10,065	1D, 1st

Personnel and sponsoring

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AaB	Kent Nielsen	Thomas Augustinussen	Adidas	Spar Nord
AGF	Jesper Fredberg	Steffen Rasmussen	Hummel	YouSee
Brøndby IF	Thomas Frank	Mikkel Thygesen	Hummel	UNICEF
Esbjerg fB	Niels Frederiksen	Hans Henrik Andreasen	Nike	Sydenergi
F.C. Copenhagen	Ståle Solbakken	Lars Jacobsen	Adidas	Carlsberg
FC Midtjylland	Glen Riddersholm	Kristian Bak Nielsen	Wunderelf	Nordea
FC Nordsjælland	Kasper Hjulmand	Nicolai Stokholm	Diadora	City Container
FC Vestsjælland	Ove Pedersen	Lars Pleidrup	hummel	Harboes Bryggeri
OB	Troels Bech	Anders Møller Christensen	Puma	Carlsberg
Randers FC	Colin Todd	Christian Keller	Warrior	Verdo
SønderjyskE	Lars Søndergaard	Henrik Hansen	Diadora	Frøs Herreds Sparekasse
Viborg FF	Aurelijus Skarbalius	Mikkel Rask	Kappa	Peter Larsen Kaffe

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Esbjerg fB	Jess Thorup	Signed by Denmark u-21	31 May 2013[3]	Niels Frederiksen	1 June 2013[4]	Pre-Season
Brøndby IF	Aurelijus Skarbalius	Sacked	10 June 2013[5]	Thomas Frank	10 June 2013	Pre-Season
F.C. Copenhagen	Ariël Jacobs	Sacked	21 August 2013[6]	Ståle Solbakken	21 August 2013	11th
Viborg FF	Ove Christensen	Resigned	31 January 2014[7]	Aurelijus Skarbalius	10 February 2014[8]	9th
AGF	Peter Sørensen	Sacked	26 February 2014[9]	Jesper Fredberg	27 February 2014[10]	8th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AaB (C)	33	18	8	7	60	38	+22	62	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	Copenhagen	33	15	11	7	54	38	+16	56
3	Midtjylland	33	16	7	10	61	38	+23	55	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
4	Brøndby	33	13	13	7	47	38	+9	52	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
5	Esbjerg fB	33	13	9	11	47	38	+9	48	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
6	Nordsjælland	33	13	7	13	38	44	−6	46
7	Randers FC	33	9	14	10	41	45	−4	41
8	OB	33	10	10	13	47	46	+1	40
9	Vestsjælland	33	8	14	11	31	42	−11	38
10	SønderjyskE	33	10	8	15	41	53	−12	38
11	AGF (R)	33	9	5	19	38	60	−22	32	Relegation to Danish 1st Division
12	Viborg FF (R)	33	6	10	17	38	63	−25	28

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
AaB	3	2	3	3	5	7	3	2	3	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Copenhagen	10	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	9	11	8	7	7	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
Midtjylland	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	3
Brøndby	6	9	10	10	12	12	12	11	11	7	9	10	10	8	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Esbjerg fB	1	4	2	2	2	4	4	6	2	2	3	3	6	9	8	11	11	11	10	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Nordsjælland	12	11	11	11	10	10	11	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	10	10	6	5	5	6	8	7	6	6	7	6	7	6	6	6	6	6
Randers FC	4	6	6	6	3	6	8	8	7	8	10	9	9	7	10	9	9	5	7	9	9	10	9	8	8	8	8	6	7	8	8	8	7
OB	6	8	5	4	4	2	5	7	10	9	6	4	4	6	9	8	5	7	6	8	8	7	6	7	7	6	7	8	8	7	7	7	8
Vestsjælland	6	10	8	8	8	8	6	3	5	6	7	6	8	10	7	6	8	10	11	11	10	9	11	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
SønderjyskE	6	3	7	7	9	9	9	9	8	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	10
AGF	11	5	4	5	6	3	2	4	6	5	5	8	5	3	5	5	6	8	8	6	7	6	8	9	9	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	11
Viborg FF	4	6	9	9	7	5	7	5	4	3	4	5	3	5	6	7	7	9	9	10	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	12	10	11	11	11	12

Source: superliga.dk

Results

Matchday 1–11 Home \ Away AaB AGF BIF EfB FCK FCM FCN FCV OB RFC SJE VFF AaB 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 3–1 AGF 1–3 0–2 2–1 3–1 0–1 Brøndby 0–2 3–2 1–1 2–1 0–0 Esbjerg fB 1–2 5–1 1–1 4–0 1–3 4–1 Copenhagen 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–3 2–1 Midtjylland 5–2 1–0 2–1 2–2 2–1 0–0 Nordsjælland 2–1 1–1 2–2 1–2 1–0 1–1 Vestsjælland 2–1 0–2 1–3 1–1 2–0 OB 3–6 1–1 1–0 1–1 4–2 Randers FC 3–2 2–2 3–2 1–3 1–1 0–2 SønderjyskE 1–3 1–0 2–0 0–0 0–3 Viborg FF 2–2 3–1 1–4 2–0 2–2 Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matchday 12–33 Home \ Away AaB AGF BIF EfB FCK FCM FCN FCV OB RFC SJE VFF AaB 1–0 2–0 0–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–2 2–0 5–0 AGF 2–5 1–2 0–3 1–1 0–4 0–1 2–2 0–1 0–1 0–3 2–1 Brøndby 2–2 3–0 1–0 1–3 3–1 4–1 2–2 1–2 1–1 3–1 0–0 Esbjerg fB 2–2 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 0–3[a] 2–1 0–0 Copenhagen 3–0 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–5 4–0 1–0 3–2 1–1 2–0 4–1 Midtjylland 2–3 3–0 0–1 3–0 2–3 0–1 3–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 5–2 Nordsjælland 2–4 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 Vestsjælland 0–0 2–1 0–2 2–1 0–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–4 0–1 OB 2–3 4–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–3 2–1 2–2 1–1 Randers FC 1–4 1–3 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–3 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 3–1 SønderjyskE 3–2 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–1 3–1 1–1 1–5 1–3 1–0 Viborg FF 0–2 0–3[b] 0–1 1–3 0–2 2–3 1–3 4–1 2–2 1–1 2–2 Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Notes: Match originally finished 2–2, but on 17 May Esbjerg was found to have used Ryan Laursen who was suspended for the match. Match originally finished 3–0, but on 17 May Viborg was found to have used David Boysen who was suspended for the match.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals[11]
1	Thomas Dalgaard	Viborg FF	18
2	Ronnie Schwartz	Randers FC	15
	Morten Rasmussen	FC Midtjylland
4	Igor Vetokele	F.C. Copenhagen	13
5	Simon Makienok	Brøndby IF	12
	Kasper Kusk	AaB
7	Rubin Okotie	SønderjyskE	11
8	Sylvester Igboun	FC Midtjylland	10
9	Mustafa Abdellaoue	OB	9
	Jakob Ankersen	Esbjerg fB