AaB
AGF Aarhus
Silkeborg IF
Sonderjyske
FC Copenhagen
Brondby
FC Fredericia
Midtjylland
Randers FC
Odense BK
Kolding IF
HB Køge
Esbjerg
AC Horsens
Viborg
AB Copenhagen
Fremad Amager
Skive
FC Nordsjaelland
Nykobing
B93 Copenhagen
Aarhus Fremad
Brabrand
FC Helsingor
VSK Arhus
Hellerup IK
Kjellerup IF
IF Lyseng
Vanløse
Jammerbugt
Marienlyst
B 1908
Odder IGF
Varde
Dalum IF
Greve
Kolding B
OKS
Tårnby FF
KFUM Roskilde
Aalborg Freja
Skjold Birkerød
B 1909
Skovshoved
Aabyhøj IF
Fredensborg
Lystrup IF
Herlufsholm GF
Fredericia fF
KFUM
The Danish Cup (Danish: Landspokalturneringen; often referred to as Pokalen) is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955.
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 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. Furthermore, in 2011, because Ascension Thursday fell on 2 June and an international match date was already allotted for this date, the Danish Cup final was played two weeks earlier on 22 May, which coincided with the annual Copenhagen Marathon.
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 cup final 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.