Division) is the second-highest football league in Denmark, also known as NordicBet Liga for sponsorship reasons.

The top-ranking teams each year win promotion to the Superliga, while the bottom finishers get relegated to the Danish 2nd Division.

[3] The 1953–54 season saw the first non-Copenhagen team win the Danish championship, when Køge Boldklub won the title.

[4] The championship title was not reclaimed by a Copenhagen team in more than ten years, until Akademisk Boldklub (AB) won the 1967 season.

From 1958, the Danish championship was arranged through one calendar year,[2] and the 1956–57 season lasted 18 months with the teams playing each other thrice for a 27 games total.