Aarhus Gymnastikforening

AGF played its first football match against Aarhus Idrætsklub Olympia in November 1902, a 2–5 loss. Six years later, the club won the Jutland Football Championship by winning 3–2 over Ringkøbing IF in the final. AGF won the Jutland Football Championship seven times and was in three finals of the Danish Football Championship before AGF became a member of the newly founded Denmark Tournament in 1927.

In 1911, AGF got its own clubhouse after which the club bought the pitches at Dalgas Avenue. In 1920, AGF began to play its home matches at the newly built Aarhus Stadium, where the club has played ever since. In 1941, the club moved from the clubhouse at Dalgas Avenue to Fredensvang in the suburb of Viby J.[1] For three seasons in a row from 1949–51 AGF finished in third place in the top division. After spending the 1952–53 season in the 2. division, AGF returned strongly to the 1. division and in the next 12 seasons won four Danish Football Championships and five Danish Cups.[2] AGF also participated in the first edition of the European Cup, where it lost to French club Stade de Reims. In 1961, AGF reached the quarter-final in the same tournament where it lost to eventual tournament winners Benfica.[3] AGF was relegated to the 2. division in 1968 and in 1973 but returned to the 1. division in 1976. This was the start of 30 years in the top division.

The introduction of professional football in Denmark had a big influence on the success AGF experienced from the late 1970s and forward until 1998. With the former Real Madrid star Henning Jensen on the team was AGF close at winning the Danish Football Championship in 1982. AGF played 2–2 against B 93 in the last game of the season sending the championship to Odense Boldklub. In 1984 AGF was again close to clinching the championship but lost it by a single point to the rivals from Vejle Boldklub. Finally in 1986 AGF won its fifth Danish Football Championship. Flemming Povlsen, Jan Bartram and John Stampe was the profiles in the team. In 1987, 1988 and 1992 AGF also won the Danish Cup.

In 1996, with players like Stig Tøfting and Håvard Flo, was AGF again close at winning the Danish Football Championship but AGF was overtaken by Brøndby IF in the second last round of the tournament. AGF got revenge by winning the final of the Danish Cup against Brøndby IF in the same season.

In 1998, AGF finished third in the Danish Superliga but financial problems resulted in some poor results the following years. In 2000, Peter Rudbæk was fired after seven years as manager. From 2000 onwards, the club experienced some of its worst ever results, which led to relegations in the 2005–06, 2009–10 and 2013–14 season. Each time, however, the club secured a quick return to the top-flight.

In the summer of 2014, AGF appointed Jacob Nielsen as its new director. Nielsen had been successful as director of Randers where he had managed to secure fine economic results. AGF also hired a new sporting director and Morten Wieghorst as manager. On 6 December 2015, however, Nielsen announced that Wieghorst was fired and that former Danish champion Glen Riddersholm was hired as his replacement.

With Glen Riddersholm as manager AGF finished the 2015–16 season in tenth place having won 3 games, drawn 7, and lost 5 in the remainder of the season. AGF qualified for 2016 cup final losing 2–1 to FC Copenhagen. In the 2016–17 season AGF finished 11th after having played relegation play-off matches in the new league structure introduced that season.

On 30 September 2017 Riddersholm was fired due to inconsistent results. At that point AGF was 7th in the league having started the 2017–18 season with 4 wins, 5 defeats, and 2 draws. Riddersholm's last match was a 5–1 win against FC Helsingør. New manager was David Nielsen who started with 4 consecutive league defeats but finished the season in 7th place after losing a European play-off final against FC Copenhagen 4–1.

Their home ground is Aarhus Stadium, renamed Ceres Park for sponsorship reasons since 2015, which has a capacity of 19,433.[4]

• A. G. Pettersson (1919–22)
• Mr. Brown (1922–24)
• Harald Hansen (1925–27)
• Alfred Rasmussen (1927–31)
• Fritz Molnar (1932–35)
• William von Würden (1936–37)
• Søren Jensen (1938–39)
• Knud Aage Andersen (1939–40)
• Gerhard Müller (1941–51)
• Peter Vesterbak (1952–54)
• Géza Toldi (1954–56)
• Peter Vesterbak (1956–58)
• Walther Pfeiffer (1959–60)
• Géza Toldi (1960–64)
• Henry From (1965–66)
• Erik Kuld Jensen (1967–68)
• Kaj Christensen (1969–73)
• Jimmy Strain (Denmark) (1974)
• Henry From (1974–75)
• Jørn Bjerregaard (1976)
• Erik Christensen (1977–79)
• Poul Erik Bech (1980–83)
• Jürgen Wähling (1984–86)
• Jens Harmsen (1986)
• Allan Hebo Larsen (1987–88)
• Jens Harmsen (1989)
• Ole Brandenborg (1990)
• Lars Lundkvist (1990–93)
• Peter Rudbæk (1993–00)
• Lars Lundkvist & Kent Nielsen (2000)
• Ove Christensen (2000–01)
• John Stampe (2001–02)
• Hans Petersen (2002)
• Poul Hansen (2002–03)
• Sören Åkeby (1 January 2004 – 31 December 2005)
• Brian Steen Nielsen & Jesper Tollefsen (2005)
• Ove Pedersen (1 January 2006 – 31 December 2008)
• Erik Rasmussen (1 January 2009 – 20 May 2010)
• Peter Sørensen (1 July 2010 – 26 February 2014)
• Jesper Fredberg (27 February 2014 – 30 May 2014)
• Morten Wieghorst (30 May 2014 – 5 December 2015)
• Glen Riddersholm (6 December 2015 – 30 September 2017)
• David Nielsen (2 October 2017 – present)

Since 1927, AGF has played 68 seasons at the highest level in Danish football, which is a record.[8]

AGF's first competitive European match was on September 21, 1955, in the 1955-56 European Cup, dropping a 0–2 decision to France's Stade Reims, eventually losing on aggregate 2–4 in the first round. Since then, the club has participated in numerous UEFA competitions, advancing as far as the quarter-finals of the 1960-61 European Cup and 1988-89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

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