2012–13 Danish Superliga

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 played	198
Goals scored	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
Longest unbeaten run	13 games; Copenhagen
Longest winless run	12 games; Brøndby
Longest losing run	5 games; Horsens; Silkeborg
Highest attendance	33.215 ; Copenhagen 1–1 SønderjyskE
Lowest attendance	0; Brøndby 0–0 AGF; Brøndby 0–0 SønderjyskE
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

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.

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

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

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.

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

Managerial changes

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

League table

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 to Champions League group stage
2	Nordsjælland	33	17	9	7	60	37	+23	60	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Randers FC	33	15	7	11	36	42	−6	52	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
4	Esbjerg fB	33	13	8	12	38	32	+6	47	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
5	AaB	33	13	8	12	51	46	+5	47	Qualification to 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

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

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

Source: kicker.de

Results

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.

Top goalscorers

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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v t e 2012–13 in Danish football
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Domestic leagues	Superliga 1st Division 2nd Divisions Elitedivisionen
Domestic cups	Danish Cup Final Danish Women's Cup
European competitions	Champions League Men Women Europa League
Related to the national team	2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Group B
Club seasons
Superliga	AaB Brøndby Copenhagen OB HB Køge
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v t e 2012–13 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '12 '13 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '12 '13 Faroe Islands '12 '13 Finland '12 '13 France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '12 '13 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '12 '13 Latvia '12 '13 Lithuania '12 '13 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '12 '13 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '12 '13 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '12 '13 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '12 '13 Finland '12 '13 France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '12 '13 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '12 '13 Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '12 '13 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '12 '13 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '12 '13 France Hungary Iceland '12 '13 Israel Latvia Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '12 '13 Scotland Wales
Supercups	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic England Estonia '12 '13 Faroe Islands France Georgia Germany Hungary Iceland Italy Kazakhstan '12 '13 Latvia '13 Lithuania Malta Moldova Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup