FC Amager
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FC Amager was a Danish football club, formed on 1 July 2008, which declared itself bankrupt on 30 March 2009.
It was as a merger between football clubs Boldklubben Fremad Amager, Kløvermarkens Forenede Boldklubber and Amager Fodbold Forening. The team will play its home games at Sundby Idrætspark
Sundby Idrætspark
Sundby Idrætspark is a combined football and athletics stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the home of the football club Fremad Amager, and Boldklubben 1908. The stadium has a capacity of approximately 7,200....
, the current home ground for the lead of the project, Fremad Amager, on which license the future club will be playing.
Big Visions
The vision for the AmagerAmager
Amager is a Danish island in the Øresund. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is partly situated on Amager, which is connected to the much larger island of Zealand by five bridges.-History:...
merger was announced at a press conference at Fremad Amager headquarters on Tuesday March 20, 2007 by Faroese footballer
Faroe Islands Football Association
The Faroe Islands Football Association , or FSF, is the governing body of all domestic football in the Faroe Islands, the highest level of which is the Faroe Islands Premier League. It also runs the Faroe Islands national teams for men and women. Established in 1979, it is based in...
and future club owner, Todi Jónsson
Todi Jónsson
Todi Adam Jónsson is a Faroese football striker who is playing for Faroese side KÍ.- Club career :He spent a large portion of his career at the Danish Superliga side FC Copenhagen, having arrived in 1997 from Lyngby BK together with the new CEO Flemming Østergaard...
; real estate agent, sponsor and member of the Fremad Amager board, Hanne Nørrisgaard; new sponsor Eik Bank representative, Claus Bodenhoff; and former Fremad Amager chairman Karsten Østergaard. The primary goal of FC Amager will be promotion to the Danish Superliga
Danish Superliga
The Danish Superliga is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest association football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each year, with 2 teams to be relegated, which proves to be one of the...
by the 2010/2011 season at the latest and to function as a football academy for young promising footballers from the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
and Amager
Amager
Amager is a Danish island in the Øresund. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is partly situated on Amager, which is connected to the much larger island of Zealand by five bridges.-History:...
. The football academy will house 20-25 young players from the Faroe Islands and other small nations.
The press conference was subsequently followed up by another press conference on March 26 in Tórshavn
Tórshavn
Tórshavn is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn...
, Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
, due to the great interest shown by the country's private sector and the investors close connections to the country.
The reason why the team does not exist before August 2008, is that the deficit of 3 million DKK in Fremad Amager had to be paid out by the former majority share holder before the Dansk Boldspil-Union deadline of submission on March 31, 2007. As it was not realistic to keep the original plans of playing from 2007, it was decided to postpone the merge for one year. Furthermore none of the participating clubs had the organisation or facilities needed to secure promotion to the Superliga.
Background
Before the press conference the merge and new professional team was know under different work titles: 'Amager FC' (a different football club already exists under this name), 'Øens Hold' (English: The Island's Team, not to be mistaken with Odense Boldklub and the coorportation between FunenFunen
Funen , with a size of 2,984 km² , is the third-largest island of Denmark following Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy, and the 163rd largest island of the world. Funen is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 454,358 inhabitants . The main city is Odense, connected to the...
ian clubs) and finally plain 'Amager' (a joint team for promising youngsters from Amager) and had been underway since the summer of 2005.
However, the plans did not proceed before a group consisting of four Faroese
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
investors under the name of Fremad Amager Invest A/S and with the footballer Todi Jónsson
Todi Jónsson
Todi Adam Jónsson is a Faroese football striker who is playing for Faroese side KÍ.- Club career :He spent a large portion of his career at the Danish Superliga side FC Copenhagen, having arrived in 1997 from Lyngby BK together with the new CEO Flemming Østergaard...
as the front man, at an extraordinary press general assembly on March 15, 2007 took over the majority of the shares (51,7%) of Fremad Amager.
The other investors in the new company were composed by an investment group from the Faroe Islands and two investors from the Copenhagen IT-business, and had a starting capital of 1,5 million DKK. The previous majority stockholder, controversial real estate agent Hanne Nørrisgaard, still represents a third of the shares. According to Todi Jónsson, the plans to take over a club in Denmark to use for Faroese players started two years prior to the takeover, with concrete dialogue with Fremad Amager starting 1,5 years prior to the takeover.
Kastrup Boldklub were originally supposed to have joined the merger, but due to their engagement in Amager United and the conflicts in getting out of that arrangement, including the court trial against Amager United Aps in connection with the break-up, the club chairman, Søren Mogensen, has stated that this will not happen.
It is expected that Kastrup Boldklub will join the merger at a later stage, as the club was one of the two original promoters of the Øens Hold-project. The question of joining FC Amager has been raised at an extraordinary general assembly with a positive result, and the promoters and investors of FC Amager has stated that there is an open invitation to all football clubs on Amager to join the new team.
The latest attempt to join the football clubs of Amager and create a competitive professional team with Superliga
Danish Superliga
The Danish Superliga is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest association football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each year, with 2 teams to be relegated, which proves to be one of the...
ambitions came at the initiative of a number of people in Kastrup Boldklub and Fremad Amager, when it was realized that no Amager club would be economically strong enough to survive in the Superliga on its own.
Fremad Amager took contact to Kastrup Boldklub and Tårnby Boldklub (the two clubs behind Amager United) to discuss the possibilities of a future collaboration, to which the Kastrup Boldklub board were positive. After an informal meeting in June 2005 (XX) between Karsten Østergaard (then chairman of the amateur side of Fremad Amager and member of the board) and Gorm Thorius (then chairman of Kastrup Boldklub) as well as Søren Mortensen (then representative of Kastrup Boldklub in the board of Amager United), the group invited all 35 football clubs from Amager to a co-operation through a grand meeting on October 13, 2005. Representatives from 10 clubs showed up and expressed a wish to join non-binding discussions about future collaboration and the completion of a work document for the basis of decision for establishing of the team. Later, however, it turned out that the idea of a joint professional team did not have the backing of a number of the clubs boards and general assemblies. After the meeting in June 2005, Gorm Thorius and Søren Mortensen left the Amager United board, due to accusations of being disloyal to the club when entering talks with Fremad Amager. The disagreements between Kastrup Boldklub and Tårnby Boldklub were to be characteristic for the future of Amager united.
On November 14, 2006, after a long debate among the members of Kastrup Boldklub the vote was 80,2% for and 19,8% against. Shortly after the general assemblies in Amager FF and Kløvermarkens FB also agreed. Fremad Amager did not need a general assembly, as the amateur part of the club had waived the right to decide over the professional part of the club when Fremad Amager became a public limited company.
Shortly after the grand meeting, Tårnby Boldklub withdrew from Øens Hold due to their engagement in Amager United. Likewise AB 70 also withdrew from the talks due to their newly won promotion to the 2nd Division, as the merge would mean a relegation of their team to Danmarksserien.
In October 2006, this was followed up by the board of B1908 which had two representatives in Øen Hold. The board did not feel that the existing document for the basis of decision was good enough to be accepted at an extraordinary general assembly. Furthermore they could not surrender the sovereignty of the club, as they did not feel that the project was sustainable due to the lack of concrete major sponsors. Dragør Boldklub did raise the question at a general assembly on December 5, 2006 however the cub was not given the mandate to participate, as only one of the members of the club voted for the project. Neither Sundby Boldklub nor Sønderbro Fight agreed to a formal collaboration.
Logo and mascot
The future logo of FC Amager is drawn by the Faroese communication bureau Sansir and features a pair of angel wings (from the Fremad Amager nickname), a shield with Dannebrog and finally the club name in abbreviated form as the central elements of the design. FC Amager's club kits will be a combination of blue and white colours.On May 21, 2007 Amager Bladet announced a contest to find the character to represent FC Amager as a mascot. The result should be announced at the Fremad Amager home game against Aarhus Fremad
Aarhus Fremad
Aarhus Fremad is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division West. They play at Riisvangen Stadion in Aarhus in Jutland, which has a capacity of 4,500.-History:...
on June 10, 2007. The name of the mascot will be found in a separate contest in Amager Bladet during the summer of 2007.
Finance and Bankruptcy
Since the club was founded in summer 2008 it was with great gestures and even bigger ambitions. As chairman was Brian Mollerup headhuntet into to manage the store. Brian Mollerup is formerly known as Anja AndersenAnja Andersen
Anja Andersen is a former female handball player and currently coach.-Career:Anja Andersen is known for both her skills as an offensive player, her strong temper and courage to make dramatic scenes and daring tricks during a match. She was an important part of the renaissance in Danish handball...
's right-handed throughout booted of handball adventure in Slagelse
Slagelse
Slagelse, a town in east Denmark, is in Slagelse municipality on the island of Zealand. It is about 100 km southwest of Copenhagen. The population is 31,979 ....
, and director of grocery chain SPAR
SPAR
Spar , trades from approximately 12400 stores in 34 countries worldwide and is the world's largest independent voluntary retail trading chain. Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932 by retailer Adriaan Van Well and now, through its affiliate organisations, operates through most European...
. After some months in the post did Brian Mollerup rest of the board aware that ambition and the economy did not hang together. After disagreements about the future strategy of the club selected Brian Mollerup already withdrawing from the post on 5 February 2009, and left the whole FC Amager.
28 March 2009, the Director Todi Jónsson
Todi Jónsson
Todi Adam Jónsson is a Faroese football striker who is playing for Faroese side KÍ.- Club career :He spent a large portion of his career at the Danish Superliga side FC Copenhagen, having arrived in 1997 from Lyngby BK together with the new CEO Flemming Østergaard...
told DBU
Danish Football Association
The Danish Football Association is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of the Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in the city of Brøndby and is a founding member of both FIFA...
to the club seeking itself bankrupt and withdraw from 1. division only 8 months after the club was founded.
Current squad
As of 2009-02-04External links
- FC Amager official website (Danish)