AGF Aarhus is our opponent in our very first European match this season. Find out all about this match and the opponent!
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The upcoming game
The first official match of the new season is the away match in the second preliminary round of the UEFA Europa Conference League. Danish AGF Aarhus is the opponent at Jan Breydel. It is the 10th time Club has faced a Danish club in Europe.
This is Club Brugge KV's 344 European match and AGF Aarhus' 58th. It is the 39th confrontation between a Belgian and Danish club in Europe.
Club begins its 52nd European campaign, for Aarhus it is the 19th. Club and Aarhus are part of 90 clubs active in this preliminary round. In total, Club must survive 3 preliminary rounds to get into the group stage of the Conference League. It is Club Brugge's first time in this competition.
After the Jaarbeursstedenbeker, the Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Cup, the European Cup for Champions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, this is the seventh European Cup in which Club makes its appearance. Only the UEFA Intertoto Cup has Blauw-Zwart never played.
It is the third edition of the UEFA Conference League which in previous years had AS Roma (Ita) and West Ham United FC (Eng) as final winners.
The opponent
AGF Aarhus played only once against a Belgian opponent. In the UEFA Cup against KSV Waregem then both matches were lost.
Aarhus Gymnastikforening (AGF) is one of the oldest clubs in Denmark. The club's soccer branch was founded in 1902. The club celebrated the Danish national championship 5 times: three consecutive times in 1955, 1956 and 1957 and then again in 1960 and 1986. In terms of number of cup wins, they share the national record with FC København of 9 cup wins. The last Danish cup stung up AGF in 1996.
Two players played for both Club Brugge and AGF Aarhus:
- Midfielder Anders Nielsen played for Club in the 1996-97 season. The Dane was able to score 6 times in 21 matches. After a period at AA Gent and AC Omonia (Cyp), he played half a year for AGF Aarhus in 2002. At the Danish club he was able to score 2 times in 10 matches.
- Defender Jim Larsen played in youth for AGF. Later in his career, Club came to get him at Rosenborg BK. He was a crowd favorite at Club but did not make it past 17 matches due to injury problems.
