FC Nerds

FC Nerds is a reality television sports franchise developed by Nordisk Film that originated in Denmark in 2004 from the television program FC Zulu. The show follows a number of nerdy young men with no experience in playing association football being trained by a famous football player in order to face a football club in the country's highest national league after a few months.

FC Nerds
Created by	Palle Strøm Keld Reinicke
Original work	FC Zulu
Owner	Nordisk Film
Years	2004–2008
Films and television
Television series	FC Nerds (independent international versions, see below)
Miscellaneous
Genre	Reality Sports entertainment

The format has been nominated for the Rose d'Or and, in 2005, an International Emmy Award in the Non-Scripted Entertainment category.^[1]

Several international versions of the show spawned, including in Australia, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Teams from these international versions would sometimes compete against the Danish FC Zulu team.

International versions

  Currently in production

  No longer in production

Country/Region	Local title	Network(s)	Coach(es)	Original run
Australia	Nerds FC	SBS TV	Andy Harper (series 1) Craig Foster (series 2)	14 April 2006 – 4 August 2007
Belgium	FC Nerds	VT4	Johan Boskamp	2 April – 21 May 2008
Denmark	FC Zulu	TV 2 Zulu	Mark Strudal TNT	13 September 2004 – 30 October 2006
Finland	FC Nörtit	Subtv	Atik Ismail	2006
Germany	Borussia Banana – Helden im Strafraum	RTL II	Lothar Matthäus	6 September – 25 October 2005
Iceland	Knattspyrnufélagið Nörd	Sýn	Logi Ólafsson Ásmundur Haraldsson	2006
Netherlands	Atletico Ananas	Nederland 2 (BNN)	Peter van Vossen	2005
Norway	Tufte IL (part of Heia Tufte!)	TVNorge	Erik Thorstvedt Klaus Pettersen	2005 – 2006
	FK Zebra	TV 2 Zebra	Egil Olsen	1 October – 19 November 2008
Spain	Paketes FC	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Sweden	FC Z	ZTV TV6	Glenn Hysén Richard Lidberg	2005 – 2007