| Founded | 1955 |
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| Region | Denmark |
| Number of teams | 104 |
| Current champions | FC Nordsjælland (2010–11) |
| Most successful club | AGF (9 titles) |
| Website | The Danish Cup |
| 2011–12 Danish Cup | |
The Danish Cup (Danish: Landspokalturneringen) is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955. Ekstra Bladet is the main sponsor of the cup, and the official name of the tournament is Ekstra Bladet Cup.
The winner will qualify for the UEFA Europa League tournament the following year, where they (as of the 2009–10 season) will enter in the third qualifying round.
The latest edition, Danish Cup 2010-11, was won by Superliga-side FC Nordsjælland, beating Superliga-side FC Midtjylland 3-2 on May 22, 2011 at Parken Stadium.
The final traditionally takes place on Kristi Himmelfarts Dag (The Ascension) and it is always played in the Danish national stadium Parken. However in the 1991 and 1992 seasons the final had been rescheduled to Odense Stadion and Århus Stadion respectively due to the renovation of Parken.
The two clubs with most final appearances are AGF with 11 finals and AaB with 10, but with quite different success; AGF having won 9 of their 11 finals, while AaB have only won 2 finals.
Attention has been brought to the fact that the final on most occasions unpractically is played before the last rounds of the league, which can open up for speculation in the benefit of losing league games at the end of the season especially for the cup runner-up if the winner is heading for the league championship. Recently former AaB player David Nielsen claimed in his autobiography that after losing the cupfinal in 2004 to FC Copenhagen, he deliberately missed opportunities to score against them when AaB and FC Copenhagen met in the final league match because FCK would win the championship (and thereby the double) and land AaB in the UEFA cup as losing cup finalists.
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Each club may only have one team in the tournament (their first team). If a match (except one of the two-legged semifinals, except if the 2nd match's result gives an aggregate tie, including the away goals rule) ends in a tie, two fifteen-minute extra time periods will be played, with penalty kicks if the tie remains after the extra time.
The teams are not seeded, but the lowest placed team from the previous season will always get the home pitch advantage.
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| Titles | Team |
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| 9 | AGF |
| 6 | Vejle BK, Brøndby IF |
| 5 | Odense BK |
| 4 | F.C. Copenhagen |
| 3 | Lyngby BK, Randers Freja |
| 2 | Aalborg BK, B 1903, B 1909, BK Frem, Esbjerg fB, FC Nordsjælland |
| 1 | AB, B 1913, B 93, Hvidovre IF, KB, Silkeborg IF, Vanløse IF, Viborg FF, Randers FC, |
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