# 2019–20 Brøndby IF season

2019–20 Brøndby IF season was Brøndby IF's 39th consecutive season in top-division of the Danish football league, the 30th consecutive in Danish Superliga, and the 54th as a football club. Besides the Superliga, the club competed in the 2019–20 Danish Cup and 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. It is the first season with head coach Niels Frederiksen, after replaced he caretaker manager Martin Retov.

## Club
### Staff changes

1 July 2019 Brøndby announced that they had hired Niels Frederiksen as their new head coach, on a two-year contract. He joined the team after the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship that same summer. Besides this Matthias Jaissle left the club, while caretaker Martin Retov, assumed his former position as assistant, along with new signing Jesper Sørensen. Besides this, Matthias Borst, Claus Fallentin, Lars Høgh and Ahron Thode all remained with the club.
The day before the first competitive game of the season, Brøndby IF announced that they had replaced CEO Jesper Jørgensen with the commercial director Ole Palmå. At the same time, it was announced that Ebbe Sand resigned from his job as sporting director after only six months in the job, as Carsten V. Jensen was hired as Executive Football Director, and Sand did not want another role in the staff of the club.

### Goal of the season

In March 2019, the club updatede their "Strategi 6.4", which among other things meant the club changed the sporting goals, so as the club in this and next season should qualify for the championship playoff in the Superligaen, as to secure European qualification from 2021-22.
Ebbe Sand announced before the end of the previous season, that it was an objective of the club to slim the squad, and make it younger, i order for the clubs talents to make their breakthrough as senior players easier.

### Stadium and attendance

On 13 July 2019, Brøndby IF announced that they had secured the Danish authorities permit to place a video surveillance system at Brøndby Stadium The technology should be used to recognize fans who had quarantine from the stadium, and was used the first time for the first home game of the season, against Silkeborg IF.
After the record for most season passes the previous season, the record for renewals were broken this season. 8,157 renewed their season pass, which equalled an increase of 27% compared to the year before.

### Season

The season officially started with a VO2max-test on 19 June, and the first training session was on 20 June 2019. After this they played som friendlies, before the first competitive game on 11 July, against FC Inter Turku from Finland.

## Players
### First team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Marvin Schwäbe |
| 2 | DF | DEN | Jens Martin Gammelby |
| 3 | DF | GER | Anthony Jung |
| 5 | MF | KOS | Besar Halimi |
| 6 | DF | ISL | Hjörtur Hermannsson |
| 7 | MF | GER | Dominik Kaiser |
| 8 | MF | DEN | Kasper Fisker |
| 10 | MF | GER | Hany Mukhtar |
| 11 | FW | DEN | Mikael Uhre |
| 12 | MF | SWE | Simon Tibbling |
| 14 | MF | DEN | Kevin Mensah |
| 16 | GK | DEN | Michael Tørnes |
| 17 | FW | DEN | Andreas Bruus |
| 18 | MF | DEN | Jesper Lindstrøm |
| 19 | MF | DEN | Morten Frendrup |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | POL | Kamil Wilczek |
| 21 | MF | DEN | Lasse Vigen Christensen |
| 22 | MF | CRO | Josip Radošević |
| 23 | DF | FIN | Paulus Arajuuri |
| 24 | DF | DEN | Joel Kabongo |
| 25 | DF | TRI | Luke Singh (loaned from Toronto FC until 31 December 2019) |
| 27 | MF | SWE | Simon Hedlund |
| 28 | DF | DEN | Anton Skipper Hendriksen |
| 29 | MF | DEN | Peter Bjur |
| 30 | GK | DEN | Mads Hermansen |
| 42 | MF | NOR | Tobias Børkeeiet |
| 50 | FW | CRO | Ante Erceg |
| — | DF | SVK | Gregor Sikosek (loaned to NK Domzale from 27 August 2018 until 31 December 2019) |
| — | MF | DEN | Rezan Corlu (loaned to Lyngby BK from 21 June 2019) |

### Transfers
#### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transfer form | Type | Date | Transferfee |
| 16 | GK | Michael Tørnes | Vendsyssel FF | Transfer | 3 June 2019 | |
| 18 | MF | Jesper Lindstrøm | Masterclass | Own | 3 June 2019 | |
| 29 | MF | Peter Bjur | Masterclass | Own | 3 June 2019 | |
| 30 | GK | Mads Hermansen | Masterclass | Own | 3 June 2019 | |
| -- | FW | Andreas Bruus | FC Roskilde | Loan ended | 30 June 2019 | |
| -- | DF | Christian Enemark | HB Køge | Loan ended | 30 June 2019 | |
| -- | MF | Rezan Corlu | AS Roma | Transfer | 21 June 2019 | |
| 42 | MF | Tobias Børkeeiet | Stabæk Fotball | Transfer | 5 July 2019 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | € 1,300,000 |
Updated: 6 July 2019 Source: brondby.com

#### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transfer to | Type | Date | Transferfee |
| 3 | DF | Benedikt Röcker | SV Wehen Wiesbaden | End of contract | 30 June 2019 | |
| 16 | GK | Benjamin Bellot | BSG Chemie Leipzig | End of contract | 30 June 2019 | |
| 18 | FW | Nikolai Laursen | PSV Eindhoven | Loan ended | 30 June 2019 | |
| 40 | GK | Casper Hauervig | HB Køge | Transfer | 30 June 2019 | |
| -- | DF | Christian Enemark | Næstved Boldklub | End of Contract | 30 June 2019 | |
| -- | MF | Rezan Corlu | Lyngby BK | Loan | 21 June 2019 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | € 0 |
Updated: 21 June 2019 Source: brondby.com

#### Brøndby Player of the Month

Brøndby Player of the Month is an monthly award, in which the fans decides who has been the best player in the last month. The fans can vote on three players picked by the club. The voting begins after the last game each month, and is done through Facebook
| Month | No. | Pos | Player | Nominated |
| July | 7 | MF | Dominik Kaiser | Kamil Wilczek Anthony Jung |
| August | 7 | MF | Dominik Kaiser | Kamil Wilczek Anthony Jung |
| September | 7 | MF | Dominik Kaiser | Andreas Maxsø Josip Radosevic |
| October | | | | |
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## Pre-season

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## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics |
| Competition | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Superliga | 36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 56 | 42 | +14 | 044.44 |
| Danish Cup | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Europa League | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 13 | −1 | 033.33 |
| Total | 44 | 19 | 8 | 17 | 71 | 58 | +13 | 043.18 |

### Superliga
#### Overview

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 26 July 2020 Source: brondby.com

#### Regular season

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 2 | Copenhagen | 26 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 47 | 29 | +18 | 56 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 3 | AGF | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 42 | 28 | +14 | 47 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 4 | Brøndby | 26 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 47 | 37 | +10 | 42 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | Nordsjælland | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 48 | 35 | +13 | 41 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 6 | AaB | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 44 | 33 | +11 | 38 | Qualification for the Championship round |

#### Championship round

Points and goals will carry over in full from the regular season.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Midtjylland (X) | 36 | 26 | 4 | 6 | 61 | 29 | +32 | 82 | Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Copenhagen | 36 | 21 | 5 | 10 | 58 | 42 | +16 | 68 | Europa League second qualifying round |
| 3 | AGF | 36 | 19 | 7 | 10 | 58 | 41 | +17 | 64 | European play-off match |
| 4 | Brøndby | 36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 56 | 42 | +14 | 56 | |
| 5 | Nordsjælland | 36 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 59 | 54 | +5 | 47 | |
| 6 | AaB | 36 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 54 | 44 | +10 | 54 | |

##### Matches

Brøndby IF's matches in the regular season of 2019–20.
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### UEFA Europa League
#### First-qualifying round

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