Skanderborg Cricket Club
– an old club with modern visions
Skanderborg Cricket Club is the oldest sports club in Skanderborg. The club is part of Skanderborg Boldklub which also consists of football and gymnastics clubs. Skanderborg Boldklub was founded in 1898 as a cricket club, while the football and gymnastics clubs were established later.
The first general meeting was held on 8 April 1898 when the cricket club was founded. At the time, the club had eighteen members who played on the hill near Sølund which was also used for cattle markets. The first matches played by the club were against Herning and Holstebro on the same day – against Herning in the morning, and against Holstebro in the afternoon. The club lost both.
In the years that followed, membership grew and soon reached 40. Between 1905 and 1909 Skanderborg Cricket Club boasted one of the best senior teams outside Copenhagen.
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Skanderborg Boldklub remained a leading provincial sports club, but as was the case with all sport, cricket came to a bit of a standstill during the war as travelling was difficult. From May 1945, the picture changed completely. British soldiers gave the club quite a lot of equipment, and training and matches were resumed. Throughout the 1950s, Skanderborg Boldklub was one of the leading teams in the second division, and in 1954 the club joined the first division. Unfortunately, it did not do terribly well, and had to move down again in 1959.
In 1961, Skanderborg Boldklub was back in the first division and this time went on to become a dominating team. The best senior team won both silver and bronze for a number of seasons, but unfortunately always just behind Aalborg. In 1964, Skanderborg Boldklub won its first Danish Championships for junior teams, followed by championships for both the boys’ and “lilliput” teams.
At this time, Skanderborg Boldklub was one of the most dominant clubs in Denmark. Things came to a slight standstill in 1980-1990 when Skanderborg Boldklub was moving backwards and forwards between the second and first divisions.
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At the beginning of the new millennium, the club decided to put a lot of effort into the senior players with a view to trying to get a place at the top of the elite, the philosophy being that a good elite team attracts attention, also among the younger generations.
In the early spring of 2003, the club went on a training tour of Singapore and Malaysia, which gave it a head start to the season and led to quite impressive results.
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In 2003, Skanderborg Boldklub won the Danish Championships, and it is a long time since the youth department has had as many members as it has now. Following the Danish Championships, the club will be focusing on the younger players with a view to maintaining the very high standards which have been attained by the senior players.
It is our hope that within the next three to five years, Skanderborg Boldklub will win the Danish Championships for young teams.
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