IF Skjold Birkerød

The final founding of Skjold as an organised club took place a few years after Levring had begun playing the game in the town.

Haurowitz who with great enthusiasm and personal effort formed the basis for what is today one of North Zealand's largest clubs in terms of membership.

This was due to the worker's club Skjold's goal of breaking down barriers in the sport of association football, which in the 19th century in Denmark was reserved for the sons of the bourgeoisie.

By then, in 1926, after a household collection, the club acquired a suitable area of Andreas Jensen's farm on lot no.

[1] The new home ground was realised after 111 members had voluntarily made their contribution to the completion of this club's own facility.

Furthermore, help was obtained in the form of transport of the excavated land by dairy owner Henningsen, who also donated buttermilk as refreshment to the members of Skjold.

[1] After this triumph, Skjold disappeared somewhat from the picture, and after short stays in the fourth-tier the team returned to B-rækken, from where they had fresh start.

The first significant results that marked the club's golden age was when the first team in the 1940s reached Oprykningsrækken and secured promotion to the national 3rd Division.

[1] On the club's 25th Anniversary, in 1942, Skjold obtained a municipal loan of DKK 20,000 for the expansion of the existing stadium, a process which began on 5 January 1942.

This time, the team showed that they possessed the strength – but not the luck – to pick up the finals important points necessary in order to promote.

Engineer Mygind Sørensen presented the proposal for a stadium facility on Høfdevangen (now Bistrupvej) for DKK 3 million calculated on a city population of 30,000 at Skjold's general meeting in March 1955.

[1] However, the municipality pushed for the purchase of the Kajerød sports park and suggested that Skjold could keep parts of the facility until the new stadium was completed.

The meeting ended with the adoption of Mygind Sørensen's proposal for the design of temporary changing rooms, after which Skjold – reluctantly – agreed to hand over the old stadium to the municipality for DKK 4,000.

[1] Until 1964, Skjold went steadily back and forth, but finally in 1964 it managed to reach the 4th Division (nowadays known as Denmark Series).

The team, which at that time only counted three of the key players from the 1950s had shown that the youthful lineup combined with experienced people was the way to secure better results.

The team that promoted to the 4th Division consisted of Harry Mathiesen, Poul Henrik Petersen, Jan Bay, Poul Erik Hermansen, Niels Erik Christensen, Erling Sund, Carl Johan Petersen, Helge Sterup, John Nielsen, Anders Jønsson and Mogens Larsen, coached by Einar Nielsen, who had returned after several years of coaching in other higher ranked clubs.

Another suburban club, "Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening", were bottom rivals alongside Akademisk Boldklub (AB)'s second team.

However, Birkerød's defenders Mogens Larsen and Poul Erik Hermansen had crucial miscommunications which gave an early 2–0 lead to Brøndby.

In 1970, the club competed in the SBU Series 1, the sixth tier of the Danish football league system.

[9] Seven tourist buses packed with fans followed the team to Rødovre, where the decisive promotion match was played against Avarta on 15 November 1981.

[1] On 18 June 2000, Skjold Birkerød won promotion to the Danish 1st Division (second-tier) for the second time in club history after an 8–0 win over Nørresundby Boldklub.

[12] As head coach Tonny Nielsen had taken over the reins before their debut in the second tier, the club had to face fellow promoted Skive IK in a home match on 29 July 2000.