Kjøbenhavns Boldklub

Football was added to the club's programme on 24 October 1878, making it the oldest football club in the world outside of United Kingdom.[1] The first advertised games were scheduled for the military exercise ground near Rosenborg Castle on 5 January 1879 (at 11am).[2] It took until 7 September 1879 for a first 'show'-game at Eremitagen in Klampenborg. This makes KB to be the oldest football club on continental Europe.

Since November 2018, KB is a member of the Club of Pioneers.

Danish national football team all-time top scorer Poul Nielsen (1891–1962) played for KB during all of his career.

One of Denmark's all-time greatest players, Michael Laudrup, played for the club from 1980 to 1982 before rejoining Brøndby IF.

Legendary striker Preben Elkjær played for KB for one season as a trainee (1973–1974), while Nicklas Bendtner, who as of 2019 plays for FCK, was a former trainee at KB between the years of 2002 and 2004.

Danish championship

• Champions (15) (record): 1912–13, 1913–14, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1921–22, 1924–25, 1931–32, 1939–40, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1952–53, 1968, 1974, 1980

Danish Cup

• Winners: 1968–69
• Runners-up: 1957–58, 1960–61, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1983–84
• 53 seasons in the Highest Danish League
• 6 seasons in the Second Highest Danish League
• 1 season in the Third Highest Danish League

All players who have played in 50 or more such matches or played international football during their time at the club are listed below. Players are listed according to the date of their first professional contract signed with the club. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only; wartime matches are excluded, substitute appearances are included.

Poul Nielsen holds both the appearance and goalscoring records, with 201 appearances and 276 goals between 1907 and 1927. Torben Piechnik is the only other player with over 100 appearances, with 175 between 1980 and 1987.

Name	Nationality	Position	Kjøbenhavns Boldklub career	Appearances	Goals
Ludvig Drescher	Denmark	Goalkeeper	1897–1917	Unknown
Kristian Middelboe	Denmark	Defender	1897–1921	Unknown
Oskar Nørland	Denmark	Striker	1898–1918	Unknown
Bjørn Rasmussen	Denmark	Striker	1901–1921	Unknown
Nils Middelboe	Denmark	Midfielder	1903–1913	Unknown
Ivar Lykke	Denmark	Defender	1905–1925	Unknown
Svend Aage Castella	Denmark	Midfielder	1906–1926	Unknown
Poul Nielsen	Denmark	Striker	1907–1927	201	276
Christian Morville	Denmark	Midfielder	1907–1913 1916–1931	Unknown
Steen Steensen Blicher	Denmark	Defender	1915–1935	Unknown
Poul Graae	Denmark	Goalkeeper	1915–1925	Unknown
Alf Olsen	Denmark	Striker	1915–1923	Unknown
Vilhelm Wolfhagen	Denmark	Striker	1915–1929	Unknown
Eigil Nielsen	Denmark	Goalkeeper	1934–1954	Unknown
Dion Ørnvold	Denmark	Midfielder	1937–1951	Unknown
Niels Bennike	Denmark	Midfielder	1943–1950	Unknown
Per Jensen	Denmark	Striker	1947–1953	Unknown
Jørn Sørensen	Denmark	Striker	1958–1961	Unknown
Niels-Christian Holmstrøm	Denmark	Striker	1967–1969 1971–1974	Unknown
Finn Laudrup	Denmark	Striker	1976–1980	Unknown
Ole Qvist	Denmark	Goalkeeper	1979–1986	39	0
Torben Piechnik	Denmark	Defender	1980–1987	175	Unknown
Prince Nana Takyi	Ghana	Striker	2001–2003	27	3
Jamil Fearrington	Denmark	Defender	2004–2006 2006–2007	76	12

In the first official game of the Denmark national football team on 19 October 1908, at the 1908 Summer Olympics, five players represented KB in that team, including team captain Kristian Middelboe. Since then, a total 75 players have represented KB in the senior Danish national team.[3][4]

Listed according to the year of debut.

• 1900s: Ludvig Drescher (1908), Kristian Middelboe (1908), Nils Middelboe (1908), Vilhelm Wolfhagen (1908), Oskar Nørland (1908), Bjørn Rasmussen (1908)
• 1910s: Poul 'Tist' Nielsen (1910), Ivar Lykke (1911), Svend Aage Castella (1911), Kristian Gyldenstein (1911), Christian Morville (1912), Georg Brysting (1912), Alf Olsen (1917), Steen Steensen Blicher (1918), Valdemar Laursen (1918)
• 1920s: Leo Dannin (1920), Poul Graae (1920), Axel V. Preno (1922), Svend Aage Remtoft (1923), Aage Jørgensen (1923), Wilhelm Nielsen (1925), Erik Eriksen (1929)
• 1930s: Henning Jensen (1931), Oscar Jørgensen (1932), Georg Taarup (1932), Eli Larsen (1933), Hans Christensen (1934), Egon Andersen (1936), Helge Jørgensen (1937), Jørgen Iversen (1938), John Nielsen (1938), Erik Glümer (1938)
• 1940s: Harald Lyngsaa (1940), Eigil Nielsen (1940), Jørn Jegsen (1943), Niels Bennike (1945), Gustaf Pålsson (1945), Jørgen W. Hansen (1947), Dion Ørnvold (1947), Axel Pilmark (1947), Erik Køppen (1949)
• 1950s: Arnold Olsen (1950), Erik Hansen (1951), Jørgen Johansen (1952), Martin Kristensen (1952), Per Jensen (1952), Vagn Birkeland (1954), Jens Torstensen (1956), Finn Alfred Hansen (1957), Jørn Sørensen (1958), Per Funch Jensen (1959), Arne Karlsen (1959)
• 1960s: Bent Krog (1961), Ole Sørensen (1961), Henning Helbrandt (1961), Nils Jensen (1961), Gert Hansen (1961), Eyvind Clausen (1962), Niels Møller (1966), Kurt Præst (1968), Niels-Christian Holmstrøm (1968)
• 1970s: Flemming Pedersen (1970), Niels Hagenau (1971), Eigil Nielsen (1971), Niels Sørensen (1974), Anders Sørensen (1974), Karl Aage Skouborg (1974), Torsten Andersen (1977), Klaus Nørregaard (1977), Henrik Agerbeck (1978), Ole Højgaard (1979), Finn Laudrup (1979), Ole Qvist (1979), Palle Hansen (1979)
• 1980s: Henrik Eigenbrod (1981)