Hillerød Fodbold is a Danish association football club, located in the district of Ullerød in the western part of Hillerød, that is an independent men's football department of the sports club, Hillerød Gymnastik- og Idrætsforening (HGI). The club is playing their home games at Hillerød Stadium (previously known as Selskov Stadium) at either the exhibition ground (known as bane 1), that can hold 5,000 standing spectators or at a fenced football field (known as bane 2), that can hold approx. 1,500 spectators and features 240 seats. After having been founded as a multi-sports club under the name Ullerød Gymnastikforening (abbreviated UGF) in 1937, the club changed their name to Hillerød G&IF in 1968. With the introduction of a women's football department in 1970, the men's football department was then referred to as Hillerød GI Herrefodbold until 2009, when the senior men's team was renamed Hillerød Fodbold.
A slow ascent from the lower regional league levels started in the 1970s, reaching the highest regional division, Zealand Series, in 1977, and the highest amateur league, Denmark Series, in 1992. After a series of promotions and relegations between the fourth, fifth and sixth levels from the late 1970s up until the late 2000s, the team was sent back to the third best regional league in the 2011/12-season, before they one season later secured four promotions over the course of six seasons to reach the national professional leagues in 2017. As of the 2018/19-season, the club's first men's team play in Danish 2nd Division after winning promotion to the third level from the Denmark Series in the 2016/17-season for the first time in the club's history. At the 1990/91-edition of the Danish Cup, the Hillerød-based team reached the fourth round (round of 16), where they were ultimately defeated at Brøndby Stadium by Brøndby IF.
The Hillerød-based club has fielded two active players on the national football teams, a youth player for the Under-17 and Under-19 teams, and a senior player (Christopher Jakobsen) on the Denmark national football team.
History
Ullerød GF (1937–1968) During the 1920s, the Danish trade union movement had introduced a new work day structure, consisting of eight hours of work with six weekly work days (compared to the previous situation of 10-12 work hours with 6-7 work days per week), which was a noticeable change, giving the Danes a lot of extra spare time and starting a wave of health interest across the country. Vagn Christensen — a high school teacher in the period 1936–1940 at Grundtvigs Højskole located at Frederiksværksgade 119, who had previously been on the first Danish gymnastics team sent abroad to perform — noticed an interest in the local community and the idea of establishing a sport club, using the school's old, little gym hall as a base, grew in the fall of 1936. To get a better feeling of the local interest, Vagn Christensen and a small group of initiative takers invited a wide range of interested parties for the first real meeting, which was held on 12 December 1936 at Frederiksborg Højskole (since 1937 known as Grundtvig Højskole). Due to the huge interest present at the meeting, a decision was immediately made to form a work group, consisting of Niels Jensen, Oskar Petersen, Marie Madsen, Martin Petersen and Linda Sørensen, who were tasked to design the new laws and just one day later call for an additional founding meeting of a new gymnastics club. The club was officially founded on 11 January 1937 at the club's first general assembly meeting held at Grundtvig Højskole and was named Ullerød Gymnastik Forening (abbreviated UGF), reflecting the club's location at the district of Ullerød in the western part of Hillerød and the primary sport activity among its members. Dairy worker Niels Jensen became the club's first chairman.