Silkeborg IF Tryouts
Silkeborg IF is a Danish football club based in the North Zealand town of Farum, Denmark. The club currently plays in the Danish Superliga, the country’s highest football league in Denmark.
Silkeborg IF Youth Development System
We want to be a unique talent development environment that primarily educates local players – secondarily players in a broader perspective – to a national and international top level.
Silkeborg IF Academy
In Silkeborg IF’s talent department, it is about giving young talents from Silkeborg and Søhøjlandet optimal conditions. Through good children’s training at our partner clubs, players are locked into SIF via ATK +. From here on to our elite team combined with good school offers. After finishing his youth, players have over time had a fantastic camaraderie, good school skills and for the most talented players a future as a professional football player.
In recent years, Silkeborg IF has had players on various youth national teams – there are also several players on Silkeborg IF’s first team, who have their background from Silkeborg and SIF. Players like Rasmus Carstensen, Gustav Dahl, Sebastian Jørgensen are examples of this.
In foreign clubs we have players like Kasper Dolberg, Robert Skov, Mads Emil Madsen and Magnus Mattsson – who can look back on a good time in SIF and Silkeborg.
Silkeborg IF Academy Training
The training on the Talent Team is handled by youth elite coaches from Silkeborg IF, which helps to ensure the best possible football development for the players.
The players have an age where the basic football skills can be learned at a high level, and therefore the training on the Talent Team is very technically based. At the same time, players learn to relate to each other and make each other good for training. Furthermore, the players are introduced to an elitist culture, which is consistent throughout the training. Training is done on grass during the summer period and on artificial turf during the winter period.
All year round, there is football training twice a week, as well as a weekly joint training with the other students from other sports on the Talent Team, where it is primarily about physical training, teaching diet, physiology and anatomy.
Silkeborg IF Academy Education
One of the most important legs in SIF’s talent structure is the link to education, which helps to ensure the best framework and a clear link between elite sports and education. This is especially important in the years when the amount of training increases and the demands grow larger, which they in our structure especially start to do at U14, where most of our players start in 7th grade on Talent Team at Sølystskolen. From here until the end of upper secondary education, the intensity of the training continues to increase.
In the end, the most important thing for SIF is that we can guarantee that the boys are given the best opportunities to fulfill their football potential, that they get a good education and that the framework in which they perform will set a positive and rewarding mark on their personal development in some important youth years.
The employees who act in this structure will do their best to ensure these goals. We are aware of our responsibility, and believe that we have the opportunity to give the boys who are going through our structure something completely extraordinary along the way. We are of course deeply dependent on a good collaboration with both players and parents.
Our distinctive feature is that we strive for the optimum in a competitive environment where you have to perform your best as an individual and as a team. There is important learning to be gained in relation to how to stick to the process and the long-term goals, even though in an elite environment there will always be a risk that you will not reach your goals. But the awareness and experience of trying will undoubtedly benefit SIF’s boys in their further life course, and in the end it will also result in skilled and mentally strong players who can represent SIF in the very best way in the coming years based on the values. profit, format and will.
Silkeborg Football College
Silkeborg Football College is Silkeborg IF’s name for the framework for the cooperation that exists for elite football players who attend a youth education. There are opportunities to go to sports classes at Handelsgymnasiet (HHX) , Handelsskolen (EUD and EUX Business) and Silkeborg Gymnasium (STX) , where the school schedule provides space for three morning training sessions a week.
Silkeborg Football College was established in 1994 as the first of its kind in Denmark. The intention was and is to combine education with sporting ambitions and provide integrity in the students’ everyday lives, so that they can have the best conditions for success with both football and youth education. At the same time, this is the framework for the students’ personal development with a focus on the values that are attached to SIF as an elite performer (profit, format and will).
Training for the students at Fodbold College is in Silkeborg IF in the hands of experienced and competent coaches who systematically and thoroughly guide the students through three years of structured, targeted and versatile training. The training at Football College aims to provide players with the individual, formal skills of a technical, physical, mental and tactical nature required to perform at the highest level. In the afternoon, SIF’s youth elite team trains, and here these skills unfold in a functional and team framework.
Most of the college students from the Silkeborg area live at home with their parents. However, both they and players from other parts of the country have the opportunity to live at the sports college at Søholt together with other elite athletes, so that everyday life works as optimally as possible without wasting time. Silkeborg Football College designates the homes, which belong to Midtjysk Boligselskab. Historically, many players have chosen to apply to Silkeborg Football College to seek the best framework to go after the dream of living as a professional football player.
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Silkeborg IF Recruitment Trials
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Silkeborg IF History
Silkeborg IF’s football team has been competing at the highest level in Jutland since it was established in 1917, with the exception of a brief stint in the third division in 1962. Despite this, the squad was elevated to the second tier of Danish football the following year, 1966. In 1982, the club made the decisive step toward the top level of football in Denmark by founding the company SIF Football Support A/S. This was a professional company that would be responsible for the organization of professional football in Silkeborg. Since then, the club has made significant progress toward its goal of reaching the top level of football in Denmark. Because of this, in 1987 we were promoted to the first row of competition in our nation, known as the first division. The majority of people who are interested in football were taken aback by this news, and a reporter for the Danish newspaper Politiken commented on it by saying, “It will be a surprise if Silkeborg will win a corner kick.” However, the team played very well, and already in the third game of the season, Silkeborg IF stunned the dominant team in Denmark, Brndby, with a win at home by a score of 1-0.
During the 1993–1994 season, there were a number of games that were quite crucial, but the one that Silkeborg played at home against Brndby in the third round of the competition was likely the most significant. The squad’s star player, Jakob Kjeldberg, had been traded to Chelsea not long before the game, and when Brndby took an early lead of two goals, it appeared as though things would be difficult for the team that was playing at home. However, Silkeborg completely turned the match on its head and won 4–2 in front of an excited audience. Throughout the remainder of autumn, SIF continued to offer appealing games one after the other. The squad concluded the fall season in first position after losing only two of their 18 matches.
The playoffs were a nail-biting experience all the way through. The superior play displayed in the autumn was followed by a style that was more calculative. Away from home, SIF was dealt a few significant losses, but when they returned, they found that Silkeborg Stadion was an impregnable stronghold. In this competition, SIF was victorious in six of seven games and allowed only one goal to be scored against them. If SIF were to win on the road against Copenhagen in the round before the final game, they would have a chance to clinch the title and take home the trophy. Silkeborg supporters descended in enormous numbers on Denmark’s national stadium, Parken Stadium, to watch their team play. The total number of fans in attendance was the highest in the annals of the Danish Superliga, coming in at 26,679 people. The several SIF supporters who came to the game saw their team score the game’s first goal, but they went on to lose the game by a score of 1–4.
Prior to the championship round, the scenario was such that SIF needed to achieve a result that was higher than Copenhagen’s in order to become champions. Heine Fernandez, the team’s highest scorer, scored both goals for SIF in their victory over Aalborg BK, which took place at home. In the second half, OB took the lead against Copenhagen and went on to win 3–2 on a goal scored in injury time. This victory ensured that SIF would win the title.
In 2001, Silkeborg defeated their opponents from AB 4-1 to win the Danish Cup. The match was played against AB. After going into halftime down 0–1, the squad came out strong in the second half, scoring four times thanks to goals from Brian Pedersen, Thomas Poulsen, and Henrik Pedersen (two of which). AB was represented by Steven Lustü, who would go on to have a successful career with Silkeborg, and he played every minute of the game. The outcomes of the subsequent years were not particularly outstanding. Following the club’s triumph in the cup competition, they parted ways with Henrik Pedersen and Peter Kjaer and Thomas Rll and sent them to Bolton Wanderers and Beşiktaş respectively. Morten Bruun, the player with the most appearances for the team in its history, decided to hang up his cleats at the same time. The squad was demoted to the First Division in 2003, but they were able to earn promotion back to the Superliga the following season. The team was demoted for the second time in as many years in 2007, despite having finished in eighth place in the league for the previous two years in a row. However, when Troels Bech, a former player for the club, returned there in 2009 to take over as head coach, he completely revamped the squad and led the club to promotion. 2011 was the first time in the previous 15 years that Silkeborg had finished higher than sixth place in the league.
Silkeborg IF was declared champions of the Danish First Division for the third time during the 2018–19 season, which ensured their promotion to the Superliga for the 2019–20 season after an absence of one year.
Ronnie Schwartz, a Danish Striker playing for Silkeborg, finished as the league’s top scorer, tying for the golden boot with Roskilde’s Emil Nielsen. Schwartz tallied 17 goals for the league throughout the season.
They won the league with 61 points, only one point ahead of their closest competitors Viborg FF, which ensured that they would receive an automatic promotion to the Superliga.