‘This is about all girls’: how FC Copenhagen are building their women’s team

Denmark’s most successful club have created women’s side and are doing it sustainably to secure long-term future

FC Copenhagen’s chief executive, Jacob Lauesen, is a little late to our morning interview but he has a good excuse, having been delayed travelling back from Gothenburg, where he watched Rosengård’s 1-0 defeat of Häcken in the Swedish women’s league.

“It was just to get a glimpse of what that looks like,” Lauesen says of why the CEO of Denmark’s most successful men’s club made the trip to watch a Damallsvenskan match. Lauesen and Copenhagen’s head of women’s football, Rebecca Steele, have spent a lot of the past 18 months observing and conversing with clubs around the world as they prepared for July’s launch of their own women’s team. Continue reading...