History
Esbjerg forenede Boldklubber was officially established in 1924 as a merger between Esbjerg Boldklub af 1898 (E.B. 98) and Esbjerg Amatørklub af 1911 (EAK) after 12 years of competition between the two clubs. The new club was driven by ambition for something bigger, which already produced results the day after when the club's best start-up team defeated Kolding IF with 7-0.
The club's golden years was in the first half of the 1960s with the Austrian coach Rudi Strittich throughout most of the decade. The club won the Danish Championship in 1961 1962 1963 and 1965 and won the DBU national Cup for men in 1964. In the 2010/2011 Danish Superliga season EfB finished 12th and was relegated to the Danish 1st Division for the first time since the 1999/2000 season.
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