page_title: 1927–28 Danmarksmesterskabsturneringen
section_title: Season summary
hierarchical_section_title: 1927–28 Danmarksmesterskabsturneringen / Season summary
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of the football player and referee Laurits Jørgensen, nicknamed "Sorte" of Odense BK.
context_page_description: The 1927–28 Danmarksmesterskabsturneringen i Fodbold was the 1st edition of the new year-long league structure for the Danish national football championship play-offs, a Danish FA-organised club football tournament between the highest ranking clubs from each of the six regional football associations. The national tournament at the top of the Danish football league system consisted of two stages, a preliminary round contested by 20 teams split into 5 groups determined by draw and distributed evenly among all regional associations, where the five winners of each group would qualify for the final championship round held at the end of the season. The clubs participating in the nationwide competition were also simultaneously contesting in their local regional league championships.
  The preliminary group stage began on 28 August 1927 with four matches at Horsens, Odense, Korsør and Rønne, and ended on 15 April 1928, while the final championship group stage was played between 4 May and 13 June 1928. No clubs from the five provincial football association qualified for the final phase of the tournament, which only involved clubs from Copenhagen.
context_section_description: A nationwide tournament was established as a replacement for the Sylow-Tournament and the Danish national football championship play-off structure, known as the Landsfodboldturneringen that had existed between 1913 and 1927. The intension behind the establishment of the new national season-long league tournament was to help increase the level of play in the provincial football clubs to that of the leading clubs based in Copenhagen by having the leading clubs in the entire country play against each other. Compared to Danish football, Swedish football have had an established national league for several years, which had raised the level of football play for even smaller cities. The Danish FA determined, that structure of the tournament would initially consist of 20 teams distributed in five groups, where each team played each other one time either at home or away — each team was secured at least one match in their home town. The participants in each group were determined by draw, and distributed evenly among all the regional associations. The Fredericia Social-Demokrat argued that the Copenhagen-based clubs would likely feature their best players in the match line-ups in the preliminary round, rather than squads packed with reserve players, giving that all clubs needed to qualify for the championship round on equal terms. Qualifying to the next season's Danish championship tournament would also stimulate the clubs to work harder in the six regional championship leagues so they would finish in the top spots.
  The first goal of the season, and the first goal in the new tournament, was netted after 5 minutes of play by a reserve player, centre forward Oluf "Ole" Petersen of Korsør BK, who played at their home ground in Korsør, known as Banen ved Taarnborgvej, against the reigning Danish football champions, B.93, on 28 August 1927. The first match day also saw the largest victory of the season and the largest number of goals made by one player in the same match, when B 1903 won 11–0 in their away game against Rønne BK on 28 August 1927, with three goals being scored in the first half and another eight in the second half, in front of a record crowd of 1,100 spectators at the Østergadebanen field in Rønne. The centre-forward Aksel ("Axel") Hansen, who had just recently been promoted the club's first team squad featuring several Danish national team players, scored 8 goals, which contributed greatly to him securing the tournament's topscorer title. Viborg FF's left half back and captain, Hermann Brügmann, was credited with scoring the first own goal of the tournament, in his side's 1–8 away loss to Horsens FS on 4 September 1927, when an attempt of a pass back to Viborg FF goalkeeper Aksel Laursen in the 23rd minute of the game failed completely.
  Different news outlets made the claim that the players of BK Fremad Amager lost their away match i Viborg on 18 September 1927 against Viborg FF due intoxication before the match. The Copenhagen team fielded their strongest line-up, but only had three shots on target, and did not impress the media present at the match. The accusations were dismissed as unfounded and unjustified by the Danish FA after an investigation.
  The first senior tournament match for Carl "Skoma'r" Hansen after his return to his former status as an amateur football player in Danish competitive football, following a 2-year mandatory suspension period for having signed a professional contract with the Scottish side Rangers F.C. (1921–1925) as the first Danish professional player abroad, was originally scheduled for the KBU league match against Kjøbenhavns BK on 23 October 1927, but the match was cancelled 20 minutes before the start due to the severe weather conditions of rain and storm. Hansen instead participated in an away match in Nykøbing Falster against B 1901 on 6 November 1927 as part of the Danish championship this season.
  The match schedule for the tournament's spring season was published on 3 January 1928 by the Danish FA. At the start of the spring season, Kjøbenhavns BK had already outplayed their possibili
caption: Referee Laurits "Sorte" Jørgensen of Odense BK officiated three matches in the tournament's group 3.
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