B-Liga (formerly the Danish Women's 1st Division) is an association football league in Denmark and the second-highest division of the Danish football league system. Contested by 8 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the Danish Women's Football League.
Format The B-Liga consists of 8 teams playing in a double round-robin tournament, with home and away games. The teams that finish in the top four spots compete in the qualification play-offs against the two worst ranked A-Liga teams to determine two promotion spots. The four bottom placed teams instead play against the two top placed teams from each of the C-Liga groups in the B-Liga qualification play-offs. The two bottom placed teams from the 1st division qualification play-offs are relegated to C-Liga. Both the A-Liga and B-Liga qualification play-offs consist of a double round-robin tournaments among the six participating teams. This has been the format since the 2021–2022 season.
Changes
Until and including the 2006–07 season, the B-Liga comprised 12 teams playing a double round-robin tournament – each team playing each other twice; once home, once away. The champion was promoted to the A-Liga, called Elitedivisionen at the time. The runner-up played a promotion game against the second worst placed team of the A-Liga for a spot in the next season of A-Liga. Meanwhile, the two worst ranked teams were relegated to C-Liga, known as the Women's Denmark Series at the time.
B-Liga was reduced to 10 teams from the 2007–08 season.
From 2013–14 until the 2019–20 season, the B-Liga was expanded to include 16 teams, divided into two groups - East and West - each consisting of eight teams. The highest ranked team from each group would play in the A-Liga qualification play-offs together against the four lowest-ranked teams of A-Liga. The top two teams in the qualification play-offs achieved promotion to the A-Liga.
The 2020–21 B-Liga contained 20 teams, split into four groups of five, each playing a double roun-robin tournament. The top two teams of each group advanced to promotion qualifiers, split into two groups of four. A total of four teams advanced to the qualification play-offs. The remaining 12 teams were in the relegation play-offs, consisting of two groups of six teams each.
Clubs 2026–27 season Note that a fair few clubs have never been in C-Liga as it was created in 2021 and any relegations before then were to the non-league fourth tier Denmark Series. Club NotesB.9322025TBA2024–25Esbjerg fB72020TBA2017–18Næstved HG62021TBATBAEst. 2021.Sundby12026TBA2025–262022–23Thy-Thisted32024TBA2023–24Viborg FF12026TBA2025–26Østerbro52022TBA2021–22AaB32024TBA2017–182023–24
B-Liga seasons A list of all the clubs that have played in the second tier of the Danish Women's Football League since its inception in 1993. Several teams have merged over the years to form the current clubs, the combined results of which will be displayed where noted. The teams in bold compete in the B-Liga currently, while the teams in italics are now defunct.
Incomplete #ClubLatestØsterbro122027AaB112027Kolding IF92008Viborg FF2027Thy-Thisted2027Sundby2027Næstved HG2027B.932027Brøndby22000B52/Aalborg FC1BSF2Horsens SIK2B 19212BK Femina2Vorup FB1
See also A-Liga C-Liga Danish Women's Cup
References
External links Official website