FC Roskilde

Football Club Roskilde is a Danish professional association football club based in Roskilde, Region Zealand. They will compete in the Danish 1st Division in the 2024–25 season following their promotion. They play at Roskilde Idrætspark (also known as 'The Eagles' Nest', after the eagle in the club's logo) which has a capacity of 6,000.

FC Roskilde

Full name	Football Club Roskilde
Short name	FCR
Founded	2004 (2004)
Ground	Roskilde Idrætspark, Roskilde
Capacity	6,000 (512 seated)
Chairman	Rune Tarnø
Manager	Kristoffer Johannsen
League	Danish 1st Division
2023–24	2nd Division, 2nd of 12 (promoted)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

History

The club was founded in 2004 as a merger between Roskilde Boldklub 1906, Svogerslev Boldklub and Himmelev-Veddelev Boldklub.

In the 2013–14 season, while playing in Division 2 (East), FC Roskilde set a new Danish league record for the number of consecutive league wins, with 20 wins in a row. The run began with a 2–0 home win against BSV on 22 September 2013 and ended with a 3–1 away win against Nordvest FC on 1 June 2014. The run was ended on 9 June 2014 by a 3–1 home defeat to Nykøbing FC.

Matchfixing case

After a 1–2 defeat to Lyngby Boldklub on 12 May 2019, Lønstrup accused his own players of match fixation. The charges from the manager came on the table at a meeting with the team, where the players demanded that Lønstrup present the evidence he said he had on the match fix. The national lottery in Denmark, Danske Spil, then went out and said, that they were investigating the charges. FC Roskilde announced later on the same day, that they had decided to suspend Lønstrup until the end of the season, in order to ensure peace of mind over the last two matches and at the same time have time to find the head and tail in the above claims.

The players allowed DIF to look in their private accounts as a part of the investigation and later also the Danish police joined the investigation. The Danish media, Politikken, wrote on 26 May 2019, that suspicious amounts have been played on matches with FC Roskilde in German kiosks. There were at least two games, that were suspicious, especially a game against Næstved BK, where large sums had been invested within a narrow geographical area in Germany. The bets were allegedly placed on the fact that there should be at least three scores in that match that ended 4–1 to Næstved. In 2014, Tipico closed for games on one of FC Vestsjælland's matches, and according to Politiken's information, the suspicious amounts of Roskilde's matches have been played from the same narrow area in Germany as then.

The owner of Roskilde then went out and said, that Lønstrup had decided to resign by himself, but Lønstrup denied that and filed Roskilde in June 2019. Lønstrup wrote in a letter to TV 2 Sport "I am sorry that my collaboration with FC Roskilde has ended in this way with a lack of support from the management, but I know that I responded as I did, and I still believe that it was the right thing to do".

Players

Current squad

As of 22 August 2024

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	DEN	Marco Brylov
2	DF	DEN	Mikkel Juhl Andersen
3	DF	DEN	Oliver Juul
4	DF	DEN	Oliver Schkolnik
5	DF	FRO	Hørður Askham
6	MF	DEN	Nicklas Halse
7	FW	DEN	Emil Nielsen
8	MF	DEN	Marcus Kristensen
10	FW	DEN	Roni Arabaci
11	MF	DEN	Selim Başkaya
12	DF	DEN	Nichlas Vesterbæk
13	DF	DEN	William Kaastrup
14	MF	DEN	Kasper Nyegaard
15	FW	DEN	Arman Taranis

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	GK	DEN	Alexander Hasmark Jensen
17	DF	DEN	Marc Winkel
18	MF	DEN	Andreas Maarup
19	DF	DEN	Valdemar Montell
20	MF	DEN	Nikolaj Zachariassen
21	MF	DEN	Mads Skøtt
22	MF	DEN	Jonas Damkjær
23	MF	DEN	Gustav Fraulo (loan from Lyngby)
24	MF	DEN	Victor Svensson
25	FW	DEN	Frederik Engqvist
26	DF	DEN	Magnus Lysholm (loan from Hvidovre)
27	FW	DEN	Anders Fæster
30	GK	DEN	Oscar Hjorth

Youth players in use 2024-25

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
33	MF	DEN	Marius Hammelboe

Out on loan

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	DF	DEN	Mikkel Madsen (at FA 2000 until 31 December 2024)

External links

• (in Danish) Official website