Viborg FF Viborg FF is a Danish football club founded on 1 April 1896 in the city of Viborg, in the Central Jutland region. Although the club can look back on more than a century of history, it had to wait until the turn of the millennium for its first, and to this day only, national trophy.
A defining moment in the club's history came in the 1999-2000 season, when Viborg won the Danish Cup, beating AaB Fodbold 1-0 in the final. That triumph opened the door to two further achievements: in the summer of 2000, Viborg also won the Danish Super Cup, defeating Herfølge BK on penalties, and as national cup winners it earned a place in the UEFA Cup for the 2000-01 season. In European competition, the team reached the second round, where it lost to Russia's CSKA Moscow — the club's furthest advance in international football to date.
For most of its history, Viborg has fluctuated between the top and lower tiers of Danish football, being promoted to and relegated from the Superliga on several occasions before finally establishing itself in the top flight in the mid-1990s. The club plays its home matches at the ground currently known as the Energi Viborg Arena, opened in 1931 and thoroughly rebuilt between 2001 and 2007, a project that increased its capacity to 10,000.
The team, nicknamed De Grønne (The Greens) after its kit colours, remains one of the most recognisable clubs from provincial Denmark, and its Danish Cup triumph in 2000 is still regarded as the most significant moment in Viborg FF's more than century-long history.
