Kolding IF is an association football club based in Kolding, Denmark. The team competes in the Danish 2nd Division, the third tier of Danish football, after suffering relegation at the end of the 2020–21 season. Founded in 1895, Kolding IF played in the top-flight 1982 and 1983 Danish 1st Division championships.[1] In 2002, they joined forces with Kolding Boldklub, the other major football club in Kolding, to form the cooperative Kolding FC first team. The joint club merged with Vejle Boldklub in 2011 to form Vejle Boldklub Kolding. This merger was dissolved in 2013 and Kolding IF reemerged.

Kolding IF

Full name	Kolding Idræts Forening
Nickname(s)	De blå-hvide (The blue-whites)
Founded	1895; 127 years ago (1895), as Kolding Fodsports Klub 1900; 122 years ago (1900), as Kolding Idræts Forening
Ground	Autocentralen Park, Kolding
Capacity	10,000 (2,197 seated)
Chairman	Claus Holm-Søberg
Manager	Kristoffer Wichmann
League	2nd Division
2021–22	8th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Current squad

As of 9 July 2022[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  DEN Christoffer Petersen 2 DF  DEN Patrick Tjørnelund 3 MF  DEN Oskar Møller 4 MF  DEN Christian Vestergaard (loan from OB) 5 DF  NZL Dalton Wilkins 6 MF  DEN Sebastian Sommer 7 DF  DEN Jacob Torp 8 MF  DEN Mike Vestergaard 9 FW  DEN Thomas Mikkelsen 10 MF  DEN Christian Kudsk 11 FW  CIV Yao Dieudonne

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 DF  DEN Jakob Kiilerich 14 FW  DEN Paul Ngongo 18 MF  DEN Oskar Stentoft 19 MF  DEN Tobias Sommer 21 DF  DEN Niki Zimling 23 FW  DEN Victor Olsen 27 GK  DEN Christopher Møller 29 MF  DEN Mikkel Jespersen 34 MF  DEN Sebastian Denius 99 FW  NGA Justice Ohajunwa

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Noted players

• 1950s–60s: Jørgen Lildballe (1955), holds the record for most first team matches – 386.
• 1980s: Jan Mølby (1981), played on the Danish national team, and went to European top clubs afterwards.

Achievements

• Jutland Championships
  • Winners (2): 1930–31, 1935–36
  • Runners-up (5): 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1942
• Jutland Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1939–40[3]

See also

• Kolding FC
• Kolding Boldklub

References

External links

• (in Danish) Official site

На других языках

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