Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening, (English

English language

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: Copenhagen Ice Skating Club) commonly known as KSF, are a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 ice hockey team in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 currently playing in the third tier Danish ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 league, the second division. The team is the oldest ice skating club and ice hockey team in Denmark, having been established in 1869.

From 1870 to 1960 the club was based on the Copenhagen lakes, first at Sortedams Sø and from 1886 at Peblinge Sø. In 1894 the team built Søpavillionen on the bank of Peblinge Sø to act as a club house. The team moved to Østerbro

Østerbro

Østerbro is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located just north of the city centre, outside the old city gate Østerport which, after it was moved around 1700, used to be located close to present-day Østerport Station...

 in 1960 but for a few years in the first half of the 1970s the team would play its home games at the Forum Arena

Forum Copenhagen

Forum Copenhagen in Frederiksberg in Central Copenhagen, Denmark, is a large, rentable faire building, which hosts a large variety of concerts, markets and exhibitions, among other things. The venue can hold 10,000 people....

 in Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg Kommune is a municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It surrounded by the city of Copenhagen. The municipality, co-extensive with its seat, covers an area of and has a total population of 98,782 making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most...

. From 1975 the team played in Østerbro Skøjtehal. That rink was demolished in 2008 and the team is currently residing in a temporary rink in Ryparken

Ryparken

Ryparken is an area in the northern part of Østerbro, Copenhagen. The area is sometimes referred to as the "broke" area of relatively rich Østerbro. The area is connected by S-train....

 until a permanent rink, at an undetermined location, is built.

The team has won the Danish league title at least 10 times from 1956 to 1976. It was relegated out of the top league following the 1984-85 season and has not returned to the top division since.

Famous players

Jesper Hviid

Bent Hansen

Bent Hansen (ice hockey)

Bent Hansen is a retired Danish ice hockey forward. He played for 18 years in Denmark for the Rødovre SIK and KSF. He also competed for the Danish national team. His son, Jannik Hansen, also played for the Rødovre team and was drafted into the NHL by the Vancouver Canucks in 2004. During his...