2020–21 Danish Superliga

The 2020–21 Danish Superliga (officially the 3F Superliga for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st season of the Danish Superliga. The season began on 11 September with reigning champions FC Midtjylland playing against the winners of the Danish Cup, SønderjyskE, losing 2–0 away from home.

Superliga

Season	2020–21
Dates	11 September 2020 – 28 May 2021
Champions	Brøndby
Relegated	Lyngby Horsens
Champions League	Brøndby Midtjylland
Europa League	Randers
Europa Conference League	Copenhagen AGF
Matches played	193
Goals scored	559 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mikael Uhre (19)
Biggest home win	Midtjylland 4–0 Copenhagen (8 November 2020)
Biggest away win	Lyngby 0–4 Brøndby (14 February 2021)
Highest scoring	Copenhagen 4–2 Lyngby (1 November 2020) Copenhagen 4–2 Midtjylland (19 May 2021)
Longest winning run	6 matches Randers
Longest unbeaten run	10 matches Copenhagen
Longest winless run	13 matches Lyngby
Longest losing run	4 matches Horsens Lyngby Nordsjælland Randers Vejle
← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 28 May 2021.

This season marked the first season with the video assistant referee (VAR) system.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in the league – the top ten teams from the previous season, the winner of the Relegation Playoffs and the champion of the 2019–20 Danish 1st Division. Lyngby BK retained its position in the Superliga by winning the Relegation Playoffs and Vejle BK joined the top flight after winning the 1st Division title.

Stadiums and locations

AaB

Horsens

AGF

Brøndby

Midtjylland

Nordsjælland

Lyngby

OB

Randers

SønderjyskE

Vejle

Copenhagen

Locations of the Danish Superliga 2020–21 teams

Club	Stadium	Turf	Capacity	2019–20 position
AaB	Aalborg Portland Park	Hybrid	13,797	5th
AGF	Ceres Park	Hybrid	20,032	3rd
Brøndby	Brøndby Stadium	Hybrid	29,000	4th
Copenhagen	Telia Parken	Hybrid	38,065	2nd
Horsens	CASA Arena Horsens	Natural	10,400	8th
Lyngby	Lyngby Stadium	Natural	8,000	11th
Midtjylland	MCH Arena	Natural	11,800	1st
Nordsjælland	Right to Dream Park	Artificial	9,900	6th
OB	Nature Energy Park	Natural	15,633	7th
Randers	Cepheus Park Randers	Natural	12,000	9th
SønderjyskE	Sydbank Park	Natural	10,000	10th
Vejle	Vejle Stadium	Natural	10,418	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	Martí Cifuentes	Lucas Andersen	Hummel	Spar Nord
AGF	David Nielsen	Niklas Backman	Hummel	Ceres
Brøndby	Niels Frederiksen	Andreas Maxsø	Hummel	Booztlet
Copenhagen	Jess Thorup	Zeca	Adidas	Carlsberg
Horsens	Jens Berthel Askou	Hallur Hansson	Hummel	NG ZINK A/S
Lyngby	Carit Falch	Martin Ørnskov	Adidas	Jetbull
Midtjylland	Brian Priske	Erik Sviatchenko	Nike	Det Faglige Hus
Nordsjælland	Flemming Pedersen	Nicolai Larsen	Nike	DHL
OB	Michael Hemmingsen	Janus Drachmann	Hummel	Albani
Randers	Thomas Thomasberg	Erik Marxen	Puma	Verdo A/S
SønderjyskE	Glen Riddersholm	Marc Pedersen	Hummel	Frøs Herreds Sparekasse
Vejle	Constantin Gâlcă	Jacob Schoop	Hummel	Arbejdernes Landsbank

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Horsens	Bo Henriksen	Mutual consent	24 August 2020	Jonas Dal	24 August 2020[1]	Pre-season
Copenhagen	Ståle Solbakken	Sacked	10 October 2020[2]	Jess Thorup	2 November 2020[3]	9th
AaB	Jacob Friis	Resigned	29 October 2020[4]	Peter Feher (interim)	29 October 2020	7th
Horsens	Jonas Dal	Sacked	8 December 2020[5]	Jens Berthel Askou	17 January 2021	11th
Lyngby	Christian Nielsen	Sacked	21 December 2020[6]	Carit Falch	21 December 2020	12th
AaB	Peter Feher	End of tenure as caretaker	31 December 2020	Martí Cifuentes	1 January 2021[7]	7th
OB	Jakob Michelsen	Sacked	15 March 2021[8]	Michael Hemmingsen	15 March 2021[9]	9th

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brøndby	22	14	3	5	40	24	+16	45	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Midtjylland	22	13	4	5	35	20	+15	43
3	AGF	22	10	8	4	35	22	+13	38
4	Copenhagen	22	10	5	7	39	35	+4	35
5	Randers	22	9	5	8	31	21	+10	32
6	Nordsjælland	22	7	8	7	35	30	+5	29
7	SønderjyskE	22	8	4	10	30	32	−2	28	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	OB	22	7	7	8	25	28	−3	28
9	AaB	22	7	7	8	24	30	−6	28
10	Vejle	22	6	6	10	25	37	−12	24
11	Lyngby	22	5	5	12	25	43	−18	20
12	Horsens	22	2	6	14	15	37	−22	12

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Play-off (played on neutral ground if determining teams for different rounds); 6) Draw.^[10][11]

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
Brøndby	4	1	1	1	1	4	5	4	3	1	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1
Midtjylland	11	8	4	5	5	3	3	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2
AGF	2	3	2	2	2	5	4	3	4	6	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3
Copenhagen	8	11	10	9	9	8	8	9	10	9	7	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4
Randers	1	2	6	8	8	10	10	10	9	8	6	5	4	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Nordsjælland	9	9	5	7	7	6	6	7	7	4	5	8	8	8	10	10	10	10	8	10	8	6
SønderjyskE	3	7	3	4	4	2	1	1	2	3	2	4	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	6	7
OB	5	4	8	10	10	9	9	8	8	10	9	9	9	9	8	8	7	6	6	6	9	8
AaB	6	5	9	6	6	7	7	6	5	5	8	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	9	8	7	9
Vejle	10	6	7	3	3	1	2	5	6	7	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	10	9	10	10
Lyngby	7	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Horsens	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: Weltfussball

Results

Home \ Away	AAB	AGF	BRO	COP	HOR	LYN	MID	NOR	ODE	RAN	SON	VEJ
AaB	—	1–1	2–1	2–3	1–0	3–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–3
AGF	3–0	—	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	4–2	1–1	2–0	4–2
Brøndby	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	2–1	4–1	2–3	3–2	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–1
Copenhagen	1–2	3–3	1–2	—	2–0	4–2	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–2	3–2	2–1
Horsens	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	—	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–3	0–3	3–1
Lyngby	0–0	1–2	0–4	2–2	1–1	—	2–0	0–3	0–3	0–3	2–2	0–0
Midtjylland	0–0	0–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	1–0	—	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–2	5–0
Nordsjælland	2–2	3–1	0–1	0–1	2–2	4–1	4–1	—	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–1
OB	2–1	0–0	0–3	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	1–1	0–1
Randers	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	3–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	—	1–2	3–1
SønderjyskE	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–3	2–0	1–4	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	—	0–1
Vejle	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–2	0–0	3–2	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–3	4–1	—

Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship round

Points and goals carried over in full from the regular season.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BRO	MID	COP	AGF	NOR	RAN
1	Brøndby (C)	32	19	4	9	58	38	+20	61	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round		—	3–1	1–3	2–2	2–0	2–0
2	Midtjylland	32	18	6	8	57	33	+24	60	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round		1–0	—	4–1	4–0	3–0	1–1
3	Copenhagen	32	16	7	9	61	53	+8	55	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round		2–1	4–2	—	3–2	2–2	2–1
4	AGF (O)	32	13	9	10	48	42	+6	48	Qualification for the European play-off match		1–2	1–4	1–2	—	3–1	2–0
5	Nordsjælland	32	11	10	11	51	51	0	43			0–3	3–2	2–2	2–0	—	2–1
6	Randers	32	11	7	14	43	38	+5	40	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[a]		4–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	3–4	—

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Play-off (played on neutral ground if determining teams for different rounds); 6) Draw.^[12][13]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners
Notes:

1. Randers qualified for the Europa League play-off round by winning the 2020–21 Danish Cup.

Positions by round

Below the positions per round are shown. As teams did not all start with an equal number of points, the initial pre-playoffs positions are also given.

Team ╲ Round	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Brøndby	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
Midtjylland	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Copenhagen	4	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
AGF	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Nordsjælland	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Randers	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Source:

Relegation round

Points and goals carried over in full from the regular season.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		AAB	SON	ODE	VEJ	LYN	HOR
1	AaB	32	12	10	10	44	41	+3	46	Qualification for the European play-off match		—	3–2	3–2	2–1	4–0	1–1
2	SønderjyskE	32	13	5	14	45	48	−3	44			0–4	—	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–3
3	OB	32	11	10	11	40	39	+1	43			1–0	1–1	—	0–1	2–0	4–0
4	Vejle	32	9	11	12	42	50	−8	38			1–1	4–2	2–2	—	2–2	3–0
5	Lyngby (R)	32	6	8	18	36	63	−27	26	Relegation to Danish 1st Division		2–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	—	3–4
6	Horsens (R)	32	5	9	18	30	59	−29	24			1–0	1–2	1–1	3–3	1–3	—

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Play-off (played on neutral ground if determining teams for different rounds); 6) Draw.^[14][15]
(R) Relegated

Positions by round

Below the positions per round are shown. As teams did not all start with an equal number of points, the initial pre-playoffs positions are also given.

Team ╲ Round	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
AaB	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1
SønderjyskE	1	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	2
OB	2	2	2	2	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Vejle	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Lyngby	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Horsens	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Source:

European play-offs

The fourth-placed team of the championship round, AGF, advanced to a Europa Conference League play-off match against the winning team of the relegation round, AaB. The winners earned a place in the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

European play-off match

AGF	2–2 (a.e.t.)	AaB
Blume 20' J. Thorsteinsson 120'	Report	T. van Weert 69' Kusk 109'
Penalties
	3–1

28 May 2021

19:00

Ceres Park, Aarhus

Attendance: 8,083

Referee: Jens Grabski Maae

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 28 May 2021.^{[16] [17]}

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mikael Uhre	Brøndby	19
2	Patrick Mortensen	AGF	15
	Jonas Wind	Copenhagen
4	Sory Kaba	Midtjylland	11
	Haji Wright	SønderjyskE
6	Anders K. Jacobsen	SønderjyskE	10
	Jesper Lindstrøm	Brøndby
	Allan Gonçalves Sousa	Vejle
	Issam Jebali	OB
	Kamil Wilczek	Copenhagen
	Kamaldeen Sulemana	Nordsjælland
12	Vito Hammershøy-Mistrati	Randers	9
	Alhaji Kamara	Randers
	Iver Fossum	AaB

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External links

• Superliga (uefa.com)