The 2025–26 A-Liga was the 52nd season of the top-flight of the Danish Women's Football League.
From this season onwards the Danish Women's League () was renamed A-Liga.
The season saw an influx of current and former national team players return to the league after several years abroad, including Nadia Nadim, Sanne Troelsgaard, Simone Boye, Mille Gejl, and Rikke Madsen, with HB Køge signing all but Troelsgaard, who signed with FC Midtjylland. Troelsgaard was the first player to return to the domestic league, while Boye returned mid-season to join the club for its ultimately successful championship run. Longtime Brøndby profiles Nanna Christiansen and Julie Tavlo, who both served as captains throughout their tenures, retired from football following this season, with Tavlo departing mid-season at the start of March 2026.
Format The main round of the league is played in autumn as a double round-robin tournament between the 8 participating teams, where each team plays against each other both at home and away.
The six best placed teams qualify for spring championship play-offs. The finals consist once again of a double round-robin tournament among the six participating teams. The scores from the main league round carry over into the championship play-offs.
The two bottom ranked teams instead play in qualification play-offs, a double round-robin tournament with the top four teams of 2025–26 B-Liga for two spots in 2026–27 A-Liga. The scores from the main league round are not carried over into the qualification play-offs.
Teams There are 8 teams competing in the regular season of the league: the 6 teams from the previous season's championship play-offs, and the top two teams from the previous season's qualification play-offs. The two teams promoted from the qualification play-offs were Kolding IF, keeping their A-Liga spot, and FC Midtjylland, winning promotion from the B-Liga, the latter replacing relegated team B.93. This is FC Midtjylland's first ever season in the top tier since their founding in 2024, after only one season in B-Liga.
Changes from 2024–25 1st Division to 2025–26 B-Liga FC Midtjylland B.93
Stadiums and locations
Team Location Stadium CapacityAGF Århus Ceres Park Vejlby 11,500Brøndby IF Brøndby 1964 Park 2,000Fortuna Hjørring Hjørring Nord Energi Arena 10,000Kolding IF Kolding Kolding Stadium 10,000HB Køge Køge Capelli Sports Stadium 4,000FC Midtjylland Herning MCH Arena 11,809FC Nordsjælland Farum Right to Dream Park 10,300OB Q Odense Nature Energy Park 15,790
Personnel and kits TeamManagerCaptainAGF Søren Kiillerich Sofie Vendelbo Craft Sparekassen DanmarkBrøndby Bengt Sæternes Kamilla Karlsen Hummel Volkswagen Faxe KondiFortuna Hjørring Lene Terp Florentina Olar Nike, Inc. Isafold A/SHB Køge Kristian Mørch Mille Gejl Capelli Sport Spar NordKolding Lasse Skovhøj Sofie Grøn Hummel Fynske BankMidtjylland Claus Struck Katrine Thisgaard Puma itm8Nordsjælland Chris Sargeant Karen Linnebjerg Nike, Inc. DHLOB Kasper Mayland Lærke Tingleff Hummel Albani Brewery
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in the tableIncoming managerDate of appointmentHB Køge Kim DaugaardSacked14 June 2025Pre-season Kristian Mørch9 June 2025AGF Marie Lynge Olesen& Søren HolmEnd of interim spell2 July 2025 Claus Struck2 July 2025Midtjylland Steen GravgaardSacked24 November 20257th Claus Struck1 February 2026OB Q Peer LisdorfSacked19 December 20258th Kasper Mayland3 January 2026AGF Claus StruckSigned by Midtjylland1 February 20264th Søren Kiillerich1 February 2026
Regular season League table
Results
Play-offs Championship League table
Results
Qualification League table
Results
Season statistics
Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Nadia NadimHB Køge162 Joy OmewaFortuna133 Mai WendickeKolding/HB Køge9 Flora HøjerNordsjælland5 Mille GejlHB Køge86 Hafrún Rakel HalldórsdóttirBrøndby7 Anna WalterNordsjælland8 Cecilie Winther JohansenAGF6 Rikke MadsenHB Køge10 Cassandra KorhonenHB Køge5 Cecilie LarsenNordsjælland
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Rikke MadsenHB KøgeOB Q4–0 (A)11 October 2025 Clara LittrupAGFNordsjælland3–1 (H)1 November 2025 Signe AndersenAGFOB Q6–0 (H)22 November 2025
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheets1 Jalen TompkinsBrøndby142 Marie GadeAGF7 Andreea PărăluțăFortuna Hjørring4 Molly RaceNordsjælland5 Alberte VingumHB Køge6 Ella ErvastiNordsjælland3 Freja ThisgaardFortuna Hjørring8 Ema AleksićHB Køge2 Sofie GrønKolding Emilie MøllerHB Køge Katrine ThisgaardMidtjylland Laura WorsøeOB
Discipline Player Most yellow cards: 6 Dajan Hashemi (Brøndby) Karen Linnebjerg (Nordsjælland)
Most red cards: 1 Meryem Baskaya (OB Q) Dajan Hashemi (Brøndby) Flora Højer (Nordsjælland) Silke Lynge (AGF) Princess Marfo (Nordsjælland) Alberte Mott (Nordsjælland) Freya Rossen (Midtjylland) Julie Tavlo (Brøndby)
Club Most yellow cards: 34 Nordsjælland
Fewest yellow cards: 7 OB Q
Most red cards: 3 Nordsjælland
Fewest red cards: 0 3 clubs
Awards
Player of the Year PlayerClub Mille GejlHB Køge
Player of the Autumn PlayerClub Mille GejlHB Køge
Player of the Month MonthPlayerClubAugust Mai WendickeKolding IFSeptember Mathilde RasmussenBrøndbyOctober Laura FrankFortuna HjørringNovember Nadia NadimHB KøgeMarch Josefine FunchNordsjællandApril Mille GejlHB Køge
Sources
See also 2025–26 B-Liga 2025–26 C-Liga 2025–26 Danish Women's Cup 2025–26 Champions League 2025–26 Europa Cup
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