2012–13 Danish Superliga

The 2012–13 Danish Superliga season was the 23rd season of the Danish Superliga, which decided the Danish football championship. It marked the 100 year anniversary of the first ever Danish Football Championship, held in 1912–13.

Season2012–13

ChampionsFC Copenhagen

RelegatedHorsens
Silkeborg

Champions LeagueCopenhagen
Nordsjælland

Quick facts Season, Champions ...

Danish Superliga
Season	2012–13
Champions	FC Copenhagen
Relegated	Horsens Silkeborg
Champions League	Copenhagen Nordsjælland
Europa League	Randers Aalborg BK Esbjerg (via domestic cup)
Matches	198
Goals	561 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer	Andreas Cornelius (18 goals)
Biggest home win	SønderjyskE 6–1 Randers Nordsjælland 6–1 Silkeborg Copenhagen 5–0 Silkeborg OB 5–0 SønderjyskE
Biggest away win	Silkeborg 0–5 SønderjyskE
Highest scoring	Esbjerg 6–2 OB
Longest winning run	9 games Copenhagen^[1]
Longest unbeaten run	13 games Copenhagen^[1]
Longest winless run	12 games Brøndby^[1]
Longest losing run	5 games Horsens Silkeborg^[1]
Highest attendance	33.215 Copenhagen 1–1 SønderjyskE^[2]
Lowest attendance	0 Brøndby 0–0 AGF Brøndby 0–0 SønderjyskE^[3]
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

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The season began on 13 July 2012 and ended on 20 May 2013.

Teams

Lyngby Boldklub and HB Køge finished the 2011–12 season in 11th and 12th place, respectively, and were relegated to the 2012–13 1st Division.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2011–12 1st Division champions Esbjerg fB and runners-up Randers FC.

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in 2012–13 Danish Superliga

More information Club, Location ...

Club	Location	Stadium	Turf	Capacity	2011–12 position
AaB	Aalborg	Energi Nord Arena	Natural	13,797	7th
AC Horsens	Horsens	CASA Arena Horsens	Natural	10,400	4th
AGF	Aarhus	NRGi Park	Natural	20,032	5th
Brøndby IF	Brøndby	Brøndby Stadium	Natural	29,000	9th
Esbjerg fB	Esbjerg	Blue Water Arena	Natural	18,000	1D, 1st
FC Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Parken	Natural	38,065	2nd
FC Midtjylland	Herning	MCH Arena	Natural	11,800	3rd
FC Nordsjælland	Farum	Farum Park	Artificial	9,900	1st
OB	Odense	TRE-FOR Park	Natural	15,633	10th
Randers FC	Randers	AutoC Park Randers	Natural	12,000	1D, 2nd
Silkeborg IF	Silkeborg	Mascot Park	Natural	10,000	8th
SønderjyskE	Haderslev	Haderslev Fodboldstadion	Natural	10,000	6th

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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.

More information Team, Head coach ...

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AaB	Kent Nielsen	Thomas Augustinussen	adidas	Spar Nord
AC Horsens	Johnny Mølby	Martin Retov	hummel	Telia Stofa
AGF	Peter Sørensen	Steffen Rasmussen	hummel	YouSee
Brøndby IF	Aurelijus Skarbalius	Clarence Goodson	hummel	UNICEF
Esbjerg fB	Jess Thorup	Nicolai Høgh	Nike	Sydenergi
F.C. Copenhagen	Ariël Jacobs	Lars Jacobsen	adidas	Carlsberg
FC Midtjylland	Glen Riddersholm	Kristian Bak Nielsen	Wunderelf	Nordea
FC Nordsjælland	Kasper Hjulmand	Nicolai Stokholm	Diadora	City Container
OB	Troels Bech	Anders Møller Christensen	Puma	Carlsberg
Randers FC	Colin Todd	Søren Pedersen	Warrior	Verdo
Silkeborg IF	Viggo Jensen	Henrik Pedersen	uhlsport	Mascot International
SønderjyskE	Lars Søndergaard	Henrik Hansen	Diadora	Frøs Herreds Sparekasse

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Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Odense BK	Poul Hansen	End of tenure as caretaker	24 May 2012	Troels Bech	24 May 2012^[4]	Pre-Season
Silkeborg IF	Troels Bech	Signed by Odense BK	24 May 2012^[4]	Keld Bordinggaard	1 June 2012^[5]	Pre-Season
F.C. Copenhagen	Carsten V. Jensen	Resigned	25 May 2012^[6]	Ariël Jacobs	22 June 2012^[7]	Pre-Season
Randers FC	Michael Hemmingsen	Sacked	5 July 2012^[8]	Colin Todd	5 July 2012	Pre-Season
Silkeborg IF	Keld Bordinggaard	Sacked	11 November 2012^[9]	Viggo Jensen	11 November 2012	12th

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League table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Copenhagen (C)	33	18	11	4	62	32	+30	65	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Nordsjælland	33	17	9	7	60	37	+23	60	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Randers FC	33	15	7	11	36	42	−6	52	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4	Esbjerg fB	33	13	8	12	38	32	+6	47	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
5	AaB	33	13	8	12	51	46	+5	47	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
6	Midtjylland	33	12	11	10	51	47	+4	47
7	AGF	33	11	8	14	50	49	+1	41
8	SønderjyskE	33	12	5	16	53	57	−4	41
9	Brøndby	33	9	12	12	39	45	−6	39
10	OB	33	10	8	15	52	59	−7	38
11	Horsens (R)	33	8	10	15	31	49	−18	34	Relegation to Danish 1st Division
12	Silkeborg IF (R)	33	8	7	18	38	66	−28	31	Relegation to Danish 1st Division

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Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Positions by round

More information Team ╲ Round, Copenhagen ...

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Team ╲ Round
Copenhagen	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Nordsjælland	2	3	4	7	5	4	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Randers FC	12	9	3	6	4	3	5	5	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	6	4	5	6	5	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3
Esbjerg fB	8	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	7	7	6	7	5	5	5	4	4
AaB	6	4	8	9	6	5	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	5
Midtjylland	10	5	5	3	7	8	8	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	9	10	8	7	7	7	7	8	8	7	6	7	6	6	6	6
AGF	6	10	11	8	9	9	7	6	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	6	5	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	8	8	8	9	7	7	7
SønderjyskE	1	1	1	2	2	6	6	9	9	9	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	10	8	9	10	10	11	10	11	10	9	9	9	8	9	8	8
Brøndby	9	12	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	12	12	12	12	10	11	10	9	10	10	10	10	11	10	9
OB	5	6	6	4	3	2	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	5	6	4	4	4	5	5	6	5	4	5	5	5	6	7	8	9	10
Horsens	11	8	7	5	8	7	9	8	6	6	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	9	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	11
Silkeborg IF	4	7	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	12	10	10	11	11	11	12	11	12	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

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Source: kicker.de

Results

More information Home \ Away, AaB ...

Matchday 1–11

Home \ Away	AaB	ACH	AGF	BIF	EfB	FCK	FCM	FCN	OB	RFC	SIF	SJE
AaB				2–1	0–2		3–0	1–1		4–0
Horsens	1–4		1–4			1–1	2–2	0–4	2–2
AGF	1–1			3–1	0–0		3–2	0–1				2–2
Brøndby		2–2			1–1				0–1		2–1	0–1
Esbjerg fB		0–0				1–2			3–0		2–3	1–2
Copenhagen	3–0		3–0	1–1			4–2	2–1			5–0
Midtjylland				1–1	1–0			3–1		2–1	1–1	1–3
Nordsjælland				0–0	3–0				1–1	1–1	6–1	4–1
OB	0–4		1–2			2–2	2–1			0–1
Randers FC		0–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–3
Silkeborg IF	2–1	0–2	0–4						0–1	0–1
SønderjyskE	0–4	0–2				1–1			1–2	6–1	0–2

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matchday 12–33

Home \ Away	AaB	ACH	AGF	BIF	EfB	FCK	FCM	FCN	OB	RFC	SIF	SJE
AaB		2–0	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–3	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–1
Horsens	2–2		2–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–3
AGF	3–0	0–0		0–3	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	3–3	2–1
Brøndby	1–3	2–0	3–2		2–2	0–0	1–1	4–0	0–3	0–2	2–2	0–3
Esbjerg fB	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0		2–2	0–1	1–0	6–2	4–0	1–0	1–2
Copenhagen	4–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–2		2–1	4–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–1
Midtjylland	2–3	5–2	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–2		1–1	1–1	3–0	1–3	1–0
Nordsjælland	1–0	1–0	4–2	3–0	1–0	2–3	3–1		4–1	2–2	3–0	2–2
OB	3–4	2–0	2–4	1–2	3–0	2–3	0–1	3–0		0–0	3–3	5–0
Randers FC	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–2		1–0	2–0
Silkeborg IF	3–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–2		0–5
SønderjyskE	1–0	4–2	0–3	2–2	3–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	4–1	0–2	2–3

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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Top goalscorers

More information Rank, Player ...

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[10]
1	Andreas Cornelius	Copenhagen	18
2	Nicklas Helenius	AaB	16
3	Aron Jóhannsson	AGF	14
	Simon Makienok	Brøndby
	Marvin Pourie	Silkeborg IF
	Ronnie Schwartz	Randers FC
7	Lasse Vibe	SønderjyskE	12
8	Nicolai Jørgensen	Copenhagen	11
8	César Santin	Copenhagen	11
10	Joshua John	Nordsjælland	10

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Attendances

More information No., Club ...

No.	Club	Average	Highest
1	FC København	15,926	33,215
2	Brøndby IF	9,166	21,186
3	AGF	8,043	14,676
4	OB	7,320	10,314
5	AaB	6,897	10,794
6	Esbjerg fB	6,647	9,345
7	FC Nordsjælland	5,827	10,300
8	FC Midtjylland	5,800	9,552
9	Randers FC	5,240	7,850
10	AC Horsens	3,970	9,487
11	Silkeborg IF	3,151	4,111
12	SønderjyskE	3,005	6,575

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Source:^[11]

2012–13 Danish Superliga

Teams

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Positions by round

Results

Matchday 1–11

Matchday 12–33

Top goalscorers

Attendances

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