FC Djursland

FC Djursland is an association football club based in the town of Grenaa, Denmark, that competes in the Denmark Series, the fourth tier of the Danish football league system. The club is a merger established in Djursland in 2009, originally between five parent clubs. Today, three clubs remain in the merger: Grenaa IF, AC Norddjurs and Ostdjurs 91. FC Djursland is affiliated to DBU Jutland, and plays its home matches at Grenaa Idratscenter where it has been based since 2009.

History

Foundation

FC Djursland was presented on 5 November 2009 as a cooperative superstructure between Grenaa IF, Ostdjurs 91, AC Norddjurs, Astrup/Hammelev IF and Kolind Pederstrup. Vice-mayor of Grenaa Municipality and an active member of Grenaa IF, Keld Overgaard Jensen, functioned as a driving force in the merger.Djursland Bank became attached to the new club as the main sponsor for the first three years of its existence. Astrup/Hammelev IF, one of the parent clubs of the merger, had already been established in 1995 as a superstructure of the clubs Astrup IF and Hammelev IF, and chairman of the club, Soren Slemming, stated after the realisation of FC Djursland that a merger would not be damaging to the parent clubs, as they already had established an extensive cooperation agreement in the youth teams. FC Djursland would compete on the existing DBU licence Grenaa IF, who at that point competed in the Denmark Series, the fourth tier of Danish football.

The goal of the new club was, as former chairman of FC Djursland, Benny Sorensen stated, to bring football in the Djursland area into the higher divisions. This could only be achieved by uniting a number of regional clubs in the collaboration, which, in time, could form a counterweight to the dominance of the larger clubs in Aarhus and Randers, AGF and Randers FC.

Between third and fourth tiers (2010–2015)

The team played their first match against AGF on 27 June at Grenaa Idratscenter. They would, during