The Growth of Midtjylland: of bets and statistics in thread, ground and brick

The FC Midtjylland He’s the newly rich in the Danish League. Although the name, certainly due to its remarkable complexity, is common in the bombings of European competition drawings, the north club of the European continent has suffered a change of -the last two decades. In this century, Midtjylland has disappeared from being a second division club to compete to qualify for Champions League.

In fact, we need to return to the beginning of this century to find out the origins and the foundation of the club. Born in 1999 by the union of two local clubsstarted that person to play in the second Danish category after buying a square Ikast FSOne of your Matrice teams. That same year he won the competition and climbed into the Super League. The following year, Midtjylland was fourth, Signing its first classification for UEFA. Since then, growth has become exponential. The whole raised in the city of Hering He makes a hole in Danish football and the former continent, regularly in Europe’s competition on many occasions.

Although Midtjylland changed in the first decade of this century, including the arrival of Matthew Benham When everything changes. The owner of English Brentford, also fond of advanced statistics and believes in the implementation of Big data In the world of football, he promoted the Danish Club purchase after changing the world of football through technology. In this way, the Midtjylland It served for Brentford to see the talent In one of the largest projection areas: Scandinavia. After the closure of his academy, Brentford, with his head -up, The Paradigm formation has changed and that is modernizing how to create its base, signing up to other countries. In fact, his coach since 2018 has been Thomas Frank, with up to ten Danish soccer players in his own collection.

The new one is the old money

Matthew Benham is no longer the maximum shareholder of FC Midtjylland. In 2023, The businessman sold his package to Anders Holch Povlsen. The Danish Tycoon assumes the bestseller’s direction at age 28, a group currently with nearly twenty brands such as only, Vero Moda and Jack & Jones, in addition to thousands of stores worldwide.

In football, povlsen He built a new city of sports and changed the stadium to expand VIP boxes. Its goal is clear: Midtjylland should be Danish’s first team and place in fifty best European teams, competing for continental titles.

The true goal is far away

The goals of Midtjylland pass, someday, on a medium term, to compete seriously with any of European competitions. Dream, of course, is to be classified and fighting to continue with qualified League ChampionsBut for now it is a desire as far as difficult. In fact, the first step to starting to grow is to stay away from the second competition of the old continent.

The real Sociedad receives a modern team with great goals on Thursday, but far from its queres. A set that has changed in the way of modernizing and that has stopped being a branch to be the head of a project with the female team and the Mafra, a club of the second division of Portuguese who also owns collective football, povlsen society .