2007 Royal League Final
Encyclopedia
The 2007 Royal League Final determined the winner of the 2006-07 edition
Royal League 2006-07
-Rules:The twelve participating teams are placed into three groups of four clubs each. The teams of each group face each other home and away. The group winners and runners-up qualify for the quarter-finals, along with the two best 3rd placed teams. As opposed to the previous edition of the...

 of the football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 tournament Royal League
Royal League
The Royal League was an annual Scandinavian football tournament held three times between teams from the three Scandinavian monarchies , starting after the end of the regular domestic seasons of Norway and Sweden. Denmark, however, are in mid-season when the tournament starts...

. It was contested at Brøndby Stadion on March 15, 2007, between Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 teams Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF is a Danish professional football club based in Brøndbyvester, Brøndby, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and is the biggest football club in Denmark with almost 2000 members. The club is also known as Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening, or Brøndby and BIF for short...

 and F.C. Copenhagen
F.C. Copenhagen
F.C. Copenhagen is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of the Parken Sport & Entertainment....

.

Match facts

 Denmark Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF is a Danish professional football club based in Brøndbyvester, Brøndby, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and is the biggest football club in Denmark with almost 2000 members. The club is also known as Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening, or Brøndby and BIF for short...


Blue shirts/Blue shorts/Blue socks
1—0
 Denmark F.C. Copenhagen
F.C. Copenhagen
F.C. Copenhagen is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of the Parken Sport & Entertainment....


White shirts/White shorts/White socks
Manager: Tom Køhlert
Tom Køhlert
Tom Køhlert is a Danish former football player at, and former manager of, Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga.He started playing for Brøndby IF right from the beginning in 1964. He becam manager in 1981....


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Team:

16 Stephan Andersen
Stephan Andersen
Stephan Maigaard Andersen is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a goalkeeper for Évian in the Ligue 1...

 (GK)

03 Thomas Rytter
Thomas Rytter
Thomas Rytter Jakobsen is a retired Danish footballer who played as a right-back. In 2001 he won the Danish Superliga championship with F.C. Copenhagen, and most prominently played for Spanish club Sevilla and German club Wolfsburg...

 

04 Per Nielsen
Per Nielsen
Per Lundgren Nielsen is a retired Danish professional football player who played in the central defense of Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga for his entire club career. With Brøndby, Nielsen won five Danish championships and three Danish Cups since his senior debut in 1993...



05 Mark Howard
Mark Howard (defender)
Mark James Howard is an English footballer who plays for Danish Superliga side AGF as a defender. Mark has played with Wayne Rooney in his time at Manchester United, where he also knows another AGF-player Adam Eckersley from....



06 Marcus Lantz
Marcus Lantz
Marcus Lantz is a Swedish professional footballer, who playsas a holding midfielder for Landskrona BoIS in the Superettan championship. He has played six matches for the Sweden national football team....

 

09 Martin Retov
Martin Retov
Martin Retov is a Danish professional football player, who currently plays as a central midfielder for AC Horsens in the Superliga. He has played more than 200 games for Brøndby IF.-Career:...



10 Martin Ericsson
Martin Ericsson
Martin Ericsson is a Swedish professional footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder for IF Elfsborg in Allsvenskan. He has played seven matches for the Sweden national football team....

 sub 90

17 Morten "Duncan" Rasmussen

22 Morten Rasmussen
Morten Rasmussen (football defender)
Morten "Molle" Rasmussen is a Danish professional footballer who currently plays as a defender for Danish Superliga club AC Horsens.Morten Rasmussen debuted for Brøndby's first team 2 October 2005 against AC Horsens...

 

23 Martin Spelmann
Martin Spelmann
Martin Spelmann is a Danish professional footballer, who currently plays for AC Horsens. He is a product of the Brøndby IF talent program, and has been around their first team since 2005. Spelmann is a defensive midfielder, but can also play as a fullback and wingback, as well as on a wing...

 sub 90

28 Chris Katongo sub 72
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Substitutes:

40 Morten Cramer
Morten Cramer
Morten Cramer , is a Danish educated police man, who formerly plays professional football as a goalkeeper at Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga. He has played one national youth team match for the Denmark national under-21 football team...

 (GK, not used)

07 Kasper Lorentzen
Kasper Lorentzen
Kasper Wellemberg Lorentzen is a Danish professional footballer, playing as a midfielder or forward for Randers FC in the Danish First Division...

 in 72

15 Ruben Bagger
Ruben Bagger
Ruben Bagger is a former Danish football player, who spent his entire professional career for Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga, and played more than 300 matches for the club. He won five Danish Superliga championships and three Danish Cup trophys with Brøndby...

 (not used)

18 Henrik Kildentoft
Henrik Kildentoft
Henrik Kildentoft is a Danish footballer. He plays at right back for F.C. Nordsjælland in the Danish Superliga. Kildentoft has amassed a total 47 youth caps for Denmark under four different age groups, he is yet to earn a senior cap....

 in 90

31 David Williams
David Williams (footballer)
David Williams is an Indigenous Australian professional football player who is currently playing for Hyundai A-League club Melbourne Heart.-Youth career:...

 in 90

32 Anders Randrup
Anders Randrup
Anders Degn Randrup is a Danish footballer. He currently plays as a right back for Danish Superliga side Brøndby IF and the Danish national team....

 (not used)

41 Nicolaj Agger
Nicolaj Agger
Nicolaj Moesgaard Agger is a Danish footballer who plays in forward for Djurgårdens IF on loan from Brøndby IF.- Biography :...

 (not used)
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Scorers:
  • Martin Ericsson
    Martin Ericsson
    Martin Ericsson is a Swedish professional footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder for IF Elfsborg in Allsvenskan. He has played seven matches for the Sweden national football team....

     (38, pen
    Penalty kick
    A penalty kick is a type of direct free kick in association football, taken from twelve yards out from goal and with only the goalkeeper of the defending team between the penalty taker and the goal.Penalty kicks are performed during normal play...

    )

Halftime:
1-0

Competition:
Royal League
Royal League
The Royal League was an annual Scandinavian football tournament held three times between teams from the three Scandinavian monarchies , starting after the end of the regular domestic seasons of Norway and Sweden. Denmark, however, are in mid-season when the tournament starts...

 (Final)

Date:
19.00 CET
Central European Time
Central European Time , used in most parts of the European Union, is a standard time that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time . The time offset from UTC can be written as +01:00...

 Thursday March 15, 2007

Venue:
Brøndby Stadium
Brøndby Stadium
Brøndby Stadium is the homeground of football club Brøndby IF, situated in the Greater Copenhagen area. It is referred to as Vilfort Park among Brøndby supporters, named after club legend Kim Vilfort.-History:...

, Brøndby
Brøndby
Brøndby Kommune is a municipality in the former Copenhagen County on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 21 km², and has a total population of 33,831...



Attendance:
17,914

Referee:
Tom Henning Øvrebø
Tom Henning Øvrebø
Tom Henning Øvrebø is a Norwegian football referee. Born in Oslo, Øvrebø is a former UEFA Elite referee, who has refereed matches in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League...



Match rules:
90 minutes.
Extra time 2x15 minutes if needed.
Penalty shootout if scores level.
Seven named subsititutes
Maximum of 3 substitutions.
Manager: Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken is a Norwegian football coach and a former player. He was named 2004 Norwegian Manager of the Year, and has won five Danish Superliga championships with Copenhagen....


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Team:

01 Jesper Christiansen
Jesper Christiansen
Jesper Ringsborg Christiansen is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for IF Elfsborg in the Allsvenskan championship. He has previously played for Danish Superliga clubs Odense BK, Vejle BK, Viborg FF, and F.C. Copenhagen, winning four Superliga championships and two Danish...

 (GK)

02 Lars Jacobsen
Lars Jacobsen
Lars Christian Jacobsen, , and raised in Odense on Funen, is a Danish footballer. He currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen.-Odense Boldklub:Jacobsen started his career with local top-flight team Odense Boldklub...

 

04 Hjalte Nørregaard
Hjalte Nørregaard
Hjalte Bo Nørregaard is a Danish football midfielder, who currently play for AGF Aarhus in the Danish Superliga. Hjalte is son of former Danish footballer Klaus Nørregaard.-Biography:...

 sub 64

05 Brede Hangeland
Brede Hangeland
Brede Paulsen Hangeland is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Fulham in the Premier League and the Norwegian national team, of which he is the captain. The son of a Norwegian oil company worker, Hangeland was born in Houston, Texas during his parents' two-year spell in the United States, but...



08 Michael Silberbauer
Michael Silberbauer
Michael Silberbauer is a Danish professional footballer, currently playing for Young Boys Bern in the Swiss Super League. He can play as right wing and central midfielder...



09 Fredrik Berglund
Fredrik Berglund
Fredrik Berglund is a Swedish former association football player who played for Stabæk in Tippeligaen, on loan from Elfsborg. Fredrik Berglund is nicknamed Bella. He played previously for F.C. Copenhagen and Esbjerg fB in Denmark and Roda JC of the Netherlands...

 sub 64

10 Jesper Grønkjær
Jesper Grønkjær
Jesper Grønkjær is a former Danish professional football player. A pacey winger, he was able to play on the right or left wing and as a second striker. Grønkjær played a total 400 league games for a number of European clubs, most notably winning the 1999 Dutch Cup with Ajax Amsterdam and playing...

 

13 Atiba Hutchinson
Atiba Hutchinson
Atiba Hutchinson is a professional Canadian soccer player who plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie.-Club career:...



16 Dan Thomassen
Dan Thomassen
Dan Vesterby Thomassen is a Danish footballer who is currently playing for the Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione A side U.S. Triestina Calcio. Before that he played for Danish Superliga side AGF Aarhus, Norwegian side Vålerenga and Danish champions F.C. Copenhagen.Thomassen came to FCK from Calcio...



17 Oscar Wendt
Oscar Wendt
Oscar Wendt is a Swedish footballer who currently plays as a left back for Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Swedish national team.When Oscar Wendt transferred to F.C...



23 William Kvist
William Kvist
William Kvist Jørgensen is a Danish footballer, who plays for the German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and the Danish national team. He can be used in most defensive and midfield positions but his favorite position is the central midfield...


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Substitutes:

21 Thomas Villadsen
Thomas Villadsen
Thomas Villadsen is a Danish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Romanian club Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ.-Biography:...

 (GK, not used)

03 Niclas Jensen
Niclas Jensen
Niclas Christian Monberg Jensen is a former Danish professional football player and current football agent. He played as a left back, and most notably won three Danish Superliga championships with F.C. Copenhagen...

 (not used)

07 Ailton Almeida in 64

14 Michael Gravgaard
Michael Gravgaard
Michael Julius Gravgaard is a Danish former football player, who effectively ended his playing career at FC Nantes in May 2010. Despite the fact of having a contract with FC Nantes until July 2011, his club was not interested to honour the contract, and opted instead in May 2010, to try and file...

 in 64

24 Jeppe Brandrup
Jeppe Brandrup
Jeppe Feldsted Brandrup is a Danish professional football player, currently playing for Lyngby Boldklub. He can play the positions as right back and right wing as well as central midfielder....

 (not used)

26 Nikolaj Hansen
Nikolaj Hansen
Nikolaj Steen Hansen is a Danish football defender, who currently plays for FC Roskilde in the Danish 1st Division.- Career :...

 (not used)

29 Lasse Qvist
Lasse Qvist
Lasse Qvist is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a striker for Nordvest FC. He is the son of former Denmark international goalkeeper Ole Qvist.-Biography:...

(not used)
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Scorers:

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