2020–21 Aarhus Gymnastikforening season

AGF
2020–21 season
Chairman	Jacob Nielsen
Manager	David Nielsen
Stadium	Ceres Park
Danish Superliga	4th
Danish Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Europa League	Second qualifying round
Top goalscorer	League: Patrick Mortensen (15); All: Patrick Mortensen (18)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →

During the 2020–21 season, AGF competed in the Superliga, the top-flight of Danish football, and in this season's editions of the Danish Cup and UEFA Europa League. The season covers the period from July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

As of 1 February 2021^[1]

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	SWE	William Eskelinen
2	DF	AUS	Alex Gersbach
3	DF	SWE	Niklas Backman (captain)
5	DF	DEN	Frederik Tingager
6	MF	DEN	Nicolai Poulsen
7	MF	SRB	Milan Jevtović
9	FW	DEN	Patrick Mortensen (vice-captain)
10	MF	DEN	Patrick Olsen
11	FW	RSA	Gift Links
13	DF	DEN	Alexander Munksgaard
14	FW	DEN	Søren Tengstedt
15	DF	GAM	Bubacarr Sanneh (on loan from Anderlecht)
16	DF	DEN	Casper Højer Nielsen
17	MF	ISL	Jón Dagur Þorsteinsson


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	DF	DEN	Jesper Juelsgård
19	MF	AUS	Daniel Arzani (on loan from Manchester City)
20	MF	AUS	Zach Duncan
22	MF	DEN	Benjamin Hvidt
27	MF	DEN	Albert Grønbæk
29	MF	DEN	Bror Blume
31	GK	DEN	Kasper Kristensen
34	DF	NED	Kevin Diks (on loan from Fiorentina)
36	GK	DEN	Daniel Gadegaard Andersen
37	DF	DEN	Sebastian Hausner
38	FW	DEN	Alexander Ammitzbøll
39	DF	DEN	Magnus Anbo
73	GK	POL	Kamil Grabara (on loan from Liverpool)

Transfers

In

Date	Position	No.	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
13 July 2020	FW	7	Milan Jevtović	Red Star Belgrade	Free	^[2]

Out

Date	Position	No.	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
14 December 2020	FW	–	Nicklas Helenius	Silkeborg	Undisclosed	^[3]
1 February 2021	MF	–	Magnus Kaastrup	Lyngby	Undisclosed	^[4]

Loans in

Date	Loan ends	Position	No.	Name	From	Ref.
28 September 2020	30 June 2021	GK	73	Kamil Grabara	Liverpool	^[5]
31 August 2020	30 June 2021	DF	34	Kevin Diks	Fiorentina	^[6]
8 December 2020	30 June 2021	FW	23	Mathias Jørgensen	New York Red Bulls	^[7]^[8]
25 January 2021	30 June 2021	DF	15	Bubacarr Sanneh	Anderlecht	^[9]
26 January 2021	30 June 2021	MF	19	Daniel Arzani	Manchester City	^[10]

Loans out

Date	Loan ends	Position	No.	Name	To	Ref.
1 February 2021	30 June 2021	DF	23	Mikkel Lassen	Skive	^[11]

Non-competitive friendlies

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

Pre-season

Mid-season

19 January 2021	AGF	0–2	Midtjylland	Aarhus
13:00 CEST				Stadium: Anlæg Kunstgræsbane 2 (Viby J)

27 January 2021	Copenhagen	6–1	AGF	Frederiksberg
13:00 CEST	Fischer 25' Wind 57' Bøving 95', 121' Stamenic 109' Haraldsson 129'	FCK Summary	Links 55'	Stadium: Nummer 10 Attendance: 0 (Stadium closed to the public) Referee: Benjamin Helm Svedborg

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Superliga	14 September 2020	May 2021	Matchday 1		22	10	8	4	35	22	+13	045.45
Danish Cup	12 November 2020		Third round		4	2	1	1	8	6	+2	050.00
Europa League	27 August 2020	17 September 2020	First qualifying round	Second qualifying round	2	1	0	1	5	5	+0	050.00
Total					28	13	9	6	48	33	+15	046.43

Last updated: 21 March 2021
Source: Soccerway

Danish Superliga

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	W	D	W	L	D	W	L	L	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	D	D
Position	2	3	2	2	2	5	4	3	4	6	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3

Updated to match(es) played on 21 March 2021. Source: Weltfussball
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Regular season

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brøndby	22	14	3	5	40	24	+16	45	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Midtjylland	22	13	4	5	35	20	+15	43
3	AGF	22	10	8	4	35	22	+13	38
4	Copenhagen	22	10	5	7	39	35	+4	35
5	Randers	22	9	5	8	31	21	+10	32

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Play-off (played on neutral ground if determining teams for different rounds); 6) Draw.^[12]^[13]

Championship round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BRO	MID	COP	AGF	NOR	RAN
2	Midtjylland	32	18	6	8	57	33	+24	60	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round	1–0	—	4–1	4–0	3–0	1–1
3	Copenhagen	32	16	7	9	61	53	+8	55	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round	2–1	4–2	—	3–2	2–2	2–1
4	AGF (O)	32	13	9	10	48	42	+6	48	Qualification for the European play-off match	1–2	1–4	1–2	—	3–1	2–0
5	Nordsjælland	32	11	10	11	51	51	0	43		0–3	3–2	2–2	2–0	—	2–1
6	Randers	32	11	7	14	43	38	+5	40	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round^[a]	4–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	3–4	—

Source: Danish Football Association (in Danish), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Play-off (played on neutral ground if determining teams for different rounds); 6) Draw.^[14]^[15]
(O) Play-off winners
Notes:

^ Randers qualified for the Europa League play-off round by winning the 2020–21 Danish Cup.

Matches

Regular season

14 September 2020 1	AGF	4–2	Vejle	Aarhus
19:00 CEST	Mortensen 9' Tingager 17' Þorsteinsson 58' Hvidt 90+1'	Report	Dwamena 71' Ojala 84'	Stadium: Ceres Park Referee: Sandi Putros

20 September 2020 2	Randers	1–1	AGF	Randers
16:00 CEST	Kamara 87'	Report	Hausner 2' Mortensen 90'	Stadium: Randers Stadium Referee: Mikkel Redder

27 September 2020 3	AGF	4–2	OB	Aarhus
14:00 CEST	Grønbæk 4' Blume 15' Thorsteinsson 43' Mortensen 71' Højer 80'	Report	Tverskov 6' Jebali 9', 74' O. Lund 23'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 300 Referee: Jens Grabski Maae

4 October 2020 4	AaB	1–1	AGF	Aalborg
16:00 CEST	Okore 39' Ferreira 51' Børsting 76'	Report	Mortensen 40' (pen.) Poulsen 58' Olsen 77'	Stadium: Aalborg Stadium Referee: Jørgen Burchardt

18 October 2020 5	AGF	3–0	Horsens	Aarhus
14:00 CEST	Grønbæk 31' Mortensen 53' Poulsen 63' Nielsen 68'	Report	Buus 17' Hansson 50' Jacobsen 66' Gemmer 89' Finnbogason 90+3'	Stadium: Ceres Park Referee: Aydin Uslu

25 October 2020 6	AGF	0–1	Copenhagen	Aarhus
18:00 CEST	Poulsen 11' 61' Hvidt 14' Grabara 61' Mortensen 62' Links 90+4'	Report	Wind 9' (pen.) Zanka 12' Kaufmann 28' 77' Zeca 34' Daramy 72' Johnsson 90+3'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 300 Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen

2 November 2020 7	SønderjyskE	1–1	AGF	Haderslev
19:00 CET	Wright 10' Jacobsen 37' (pen.) 45' Albæk 61'	Report	Blume 32' 58' Olsen 63' Helenius 90+3'	Stadium: Haderslev Football Stadium Attendance: 300 Referee: Jørgen Burchardt

November 2020 8	Lyngby	1–2	AGF	Lyngby
CET	Torp 2' 90+3' Thellufsen 19' Gammelby 87'	Report	Diks 50' Þorsteinsson 89'	Stadium: Lyngby Stadium Attendance: 300 Referee: Morten Krogh

22 November 2020 9	AGF	1–2	Midtjylland	Aarhus
16:00 CET	Sviatchenko 25' Onyeka 27' 51' Kaba 34'	FCM Summary	Juelsgård 43' Mortensen 63' (pen.)	Stadium: Ceres Park Referee: Jens Maae

29 November 2020 10	AGF	1–3	Nordsjælland	Aarhus
18:00 CET	Mortensen 10' Hvidt 90+5'	Report	Atanga 2', 57' Sulemana 3' 45' 77' Jensen 40' Jenssen 53'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 300 Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen

7 December 2021 (2021-12-07) 11	AGF	3–1	Brøndby	Aarhus
19:00 CET	Links 37' Juelsgård 51' Mortensen 78'	Report	Frendrup 11' 50' Hedlund 45' Bruus 72' Grønbæk 76' 80'	Stadium: Ceres Park Referee: Jorgen Burchardt

13 December 2020 12	Horsens	1–2	AGF	Horsens
14:00 CET	Hansson 46' Brock-Madsen 67' (pen.)	Report	Links 42' Diks 58' 83' Þorsteinsson 64' Munksgaard 76'	Stadium: CASA Arena Horsens Attendance: 300 Referee: Jonas Hansen

20 December 2020 13	AGF	3–0	AaB	Aarhus
16:00 CET	Links 16' Þorsteinsson 26', 34' Nielsen 31'	Report	Thelander 23' Ferreira 45'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 300 Referee: Anders Poulsen

2 February 2021 14	Vejle	0–0	AGF	Vejle
20:00 CET	Ramadani 53' Kolinger 60' Mucoli 69'	Report	Poulsen 15' Links 77'	Stadium: Vejle Stadium Referee: Jens Maae

7 February 2021 15	AGF	1–0	Lyngby	Aarhus
18:00 CET	Þorsteinsson 50'	Report		Stadium: Ceres Park Referee: Jakob A. Sundberg

14 February 2021 16	OB	0–0	AGF	Odense
20:00 CET	Thomasen 90+1' Tverskov 90+4'	Report	Munksgaard 37' Poulsen 43' Hvidt 72' Højer 90+3'	Stadium: Nature Energy Park Attendance: 0 Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen

21 February 2021 17	AGF	2–0	SønderjyskE	Aarhus
16:00 CET	Mortensen 74' (pen.) Olsen 80'	Report	Gartenmann 74'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 0 Referee: Mads Kristoffersen

28 February 2021 18	Copenhagen	3–3	AGF	Copenhagen
16:00 CET	Wind 15' Daramy 55' Falk 90+11' (pen.) Lerager 76' Boilesen 83'	FCK Summary	Mortensen 21', 27' Olsen 29' Poulsen 77' Sanneh 85' Jørgensen 90+6'	Stadium: Telia Parken Attendance: 0 Referee: Jørgen Daugbjerg Burchardt

3 March 2021 19	AGF	0–1	Nordsjælland	Aarhus
18:00	Sanneh 6'	Report	Jenssen 13'	Stadium: Ceres Park Attendance: 0 Referee: Morten Krogh

7 March 2021 20	Midtjylland	0–1	AGF	Herning
16:00 CET		Report	Mortensen 9'	Stadium: MCH Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen Fourth official: ydin Uslu

15 March 2021 21	AGF	1–1	Randers	Aarhus
19:00 CET	Links 5' Juelsgård 48' Mortensen 87' Olsen 90+3'	Report	Piesinger 64' Kopplin 81' Mistrati 90' Kehinde 90+2'	Stadium: Aarhus Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Michael Tykgaard Fourth official: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen

21 March 2021 (2021-03-21) 22	Brøndby	1–1	AGF	Brøndbyvester
17:00 CET	Uhre 36'	Report	Mortensen 34' (pen.)	Stadium: Brøndby Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Jørgen Burchardt

Championship round

4 April 2021 23	Nordsjaelland	2–0	AGF	Farum
18:05	Sulemana 18' Antman 87'	Report		Stadium: Right to Dream Park Referee: Jakob A. Sundberg

11 April 2021 24	AGF	1–4	Midtjylland	Aarhus
18:00 CEST	Grønbæk 44' Olsen 45+5' Mortensen 45+4' 61' Links 56' Hvidt 58' Juelsgård 88'	FCM Summary	Onyeka 16' Dreyer 43' Scholz 45+4' 52' (pen) Anderson 83' (Isaksen) Evander 89'	Stadium: Aarhus Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen

18 April 2021 25	Brøndby	2–2	AGF	Brøndbyvester
18:00	Maxsø 31' (pen.) Lindstrøm 71' Børkeeiet 90+2' 90+2'	Report	Diks 16' Grønbæk 45'	Stadium: Brøndby Stadium Referee: Jens Maae

22 April 2021 26	AGF	2–0	Randers	Aarhus
17:45 CEST	Grønbæk 7' Ammitzbøll 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Aarhus Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Sandi Putros

25 April 2021 27	AGF	1–2	Copenhagen	Aarhus
20:00 CET	Højer 31' Hvidt 90+3' Hausner 90+5' Grabara 90+5'	FCK Summary	Wind 26' (Stage) Ankersen 29' Lerager 39' Stage 38' (Fischer) Zeca 85' Nelsson 90+5'	Stadium: Aarhus Stadium Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Morten Krogh

3 May 2021 28	Copenhagen	3–2	AGF	Copenhagen
19:00 CEST	Wilczek 7' (Fischer) Nelsson 17' 68' Wind 33' (pen.) Zanka 39' Kristiansen 90' Stage 90+4'	FCK Summary	Juelsgård 19' Þorsteinsson 37' Diks 57' (Højer) 67' (Hausner) Poulsen 61'	Stadium: Parken Stadium Attendance: 10,365 Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard

9 May 2021 29	Randers	0–1	AGF	Randers
16:00 CEST		Report	Diks 22'	Stadium: Randers Stadium Referee: Michael Tykgaard

24 May 2021 32	Midtjylland	v	AGF	Herning
17:00 CEST				Stadium: MCH Arena

Danish Cup

12 November 2020 (2020-11-12) Third round	Kolding IF	3–3 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	AGF	Kolding
	Hansen 4' Grabara 8' (o.g.) Jakobsen 63'	Report	Juelsgård 43' Helenius 46' Mortensen 57'	Stadium: Kolding Stadium
	Penalties
	Nautrup Gudmann Eriksen Bonde Sommer		Mortensen Olsen Poulsen Hvidt Tingager

16 December 2020 (2020-12-16) Fourth round	AGF	1–0	Horsens	Aarhus
	Tingager 87'	Report		Stadium: Aarhus Stadium

10 February 2021 (2021-02-10) Quarter-finals 1st leg	AGF	3–1	B 93	Aarhus
20:15 CET	Þorsteinsson 39' Gersbach 49' Links 79'	Report	Stückler 90+3'	Stadium: Aarhus Stadium Referee: Jørgen Daugbjerg Burchardt

11 March 2021 (2021-03-11) Quarter-finals 2nd leg	B 93	2–1 (3–4 agg.)	AGF	Copenhagen
18:45 CET	Erenbjerg 5' Lund 90+2'	Report	Diks 80'	Stadium: Østerbro Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Sandi Putros

8 April 2021 (2021-04-08) Semi-finals 1st leg	AGF	0–2	Randers	Aarhus
19:00 CEST	Hausner 70'	Report	Hammershøy-Mistrati 66' Egho 71' (pen.)	Stadium: Aarhus Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Michael Tykgaard

15 April 2021 (2021-04-15) Semi-finals 2nd leg	Randers	1–1 (3–1 agg.)	AGF	Randers
19:00 CEST	Egho 41' Marxen 90+2'	Report	Mortensen 24' Links 54'	Stadium: Randers Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen

UEFA Europa League

27 August 2020 (2020-08-27) First qualifying round	AGF	5–2	Honka	Aarhus Stadium, Aarhus
19:00	Tingager 21' Mortensen 29', 45+2' (pen.) Olsen 90+1' Tengstedt 90+2'	Report	Martín 35' Kaufmann 64'	Attendance: 0 Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (Greece)

17 September 2020 (2020-09-17) Second qualifying round	Mura	3–0	AGF	Fazanerija City Stadium, Murska Sobota
20:15	Gorenc 37' Žižek 72' Maroša 90+5'	Report		Attendance: 0 Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

Statistics

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Superliga	Danish Cup	Europa League	Total
1	9	FW	Patrick Mortensen	13	1	2	16
2	17	FW	Jón Dagur Þorsteinsson	5	1	0	6
3	11	FW	Gift Links	4	1	0	5
4	5	DF	Frederik Tingager	1	1	1	3
	10	MF	Patrick Olsen	2	0	1	3
	27	MF	Albert Grønbæk	3	0	0	3
	34	DF	Kevin Diks	2	1	0	3
8	16	DF	Casper Højer Nielsen	2	0	0	2
8	29	MF	Bror Blume	2	0	0	2
10	2	DF	Alex Gersbach	0	1	0	1
	14	FW	Søren Tengstedt	0	0	1	1
	18	DF	Jesper Juelsgård	0	1	0	1
	19	FW	Nicklas Helenius	0	1	0	1
	22	MF	Benjamin Hvidt	1	0	0	1
Own goals				0	0	0	0
Totals				35	8	5	48

Last updated: 21 March 2021^[16]

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Superliga	Danish Cup	Total
1	73	GK	Kamil Grabara	7	1	8
2	1	GK	William Eskelinen	0	0	0
Totals				7	1	8

Last updated: 15 March 2021^[16]

References

^ AGF squad Archived 6 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine, agf.dk
^ "Jevtović u Arhusu, Zvezdi 25 odsto od narednog transfera". mozzartsport.com. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
^ "HELENIUS SKIFTER TIL SILKEBORG IF". www.agf.dk (in Danish). AGF. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
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^ "Kamil Grabara joins AGF Aarhus on loan for 2020-21". Liverpool F.C. 28 September 2020.
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^ "New York Red Bulls Loan Mathias Jørgensen to Aarhus Gymnastikforening". Retrieved 10 December 2020.
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^ ^a ^b "2020-2021 AGF Stats". FBref. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

[table_note_res_ELPO0.58326996657218-14] Randers qualified for the Europa League play-off round by winning the 2020–21 Danish Cup.

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[2] "Jevtović u Arhusu, Zvezdi 25 odsto od narednog transfera". mozzartsport.com. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

[3] "HELENIUS SKIFTER TIL SILKEBORG IF". www.agf.dk (in Danish). AGF. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

[Kaastrup-4] "Lyngby køber Magnus Kaastrup i AGF". www.lyngby-boldklub.dk (in Danish). Lyngby Boldklub. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

[grabara-5] "Kamil Grabara joins AGF Aarhus on loan for 2020-21". Liverpool F.C. 28 September 2020.

[6] "KEVIN DIKS VENDER TILBAGE" (in Danish). AGF. 31 August 2020.

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[AGF_Stryker_Offensiven_Men_Ung_Angriber-8] "AGF Stryker Offensiven Men Ung Angriber". Retrieved 8 December 2020.

[9] "AGF HENTER BUBACARR SANNEH". www.agf.dk (in Danish). AGF. 25 January 2021. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

[10] "DANIEL ARZANI LEAVES FC UTRECHT". fcutrecht.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 January 2021.

[11] "MIKKEL LASSEN UDLEJES TIL SKIVE IK". www.agf.dk (in Danish). AGF. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

[12] "LÆR TURNERINGSSTRUKTUREN AT KENDE" [Get to know the tournament structure]. 3F Superliga (in Danish). Retrieved 2 July 2019.

[13] "Superliga 2020/2021". Soccerway. Retrieved 3 February 2020.

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