FBUs Pokalturnering


FBUs Pokalturnering was a Danish regional knockout association football competition contested annually from 1920 to 1953 by clubs that were members of the regional football association Funen FA. Organised by and named after FBU, it was the third regional cup competition introduced, and the second in the province, after the KBUs Pokalturnering in 1910 and the LFBUs Pokalturnering in 1915. For the most part, the matches in the competition took place during the course of the fall season, beginning in the summer months with the first round, and culminating in a final later in the same half season, but due to scheduling some finals were not played until the following year. After a modest start of the tournament, with time several cup matches evolved into major events, receiving much media coverage, becoming topics of conversation for a long time and marking cities and villages for a few days. The Funen cup tournament was discontinued after the 1953 edition ahead of the introduction of the national-wide cup competition beginning in 1954, DBUs Landspokalturnering, organised by the Danish FA.
The competition rules varied throughout the years, but has always been open to all Funen FA member clubs, and as a consequence the number of participants have varied greatly throughout its history beginning from 7 teams in the 1920 edition and steadily increasing the number to 66 teams in the 1944 edition. First introduced at the ninth cup edition, the tournament also began being open to reserve teams, that on several occasions were matched against the same club's first teams. Between 1920 and 1928, the rules stated that an additional extra time should be played to determine finals, that were tied after full time. In 1929, the rules were changed, so that a replay match was scheduled, if a semi-final or final match was tied. Despite the Danish FA establishing the short-lived nation-wide cup tournament, Danmarkspokalturneringen in 1940, the regional Funen Cup tournament continued its existence.
The most successful club in the history of the tournament's 33 editions was B 1909, who won a total of 14 cup titles and appeared as a losing finalist on 9 occasions. Only 7 clubs, and mostly clubs from the main city of the island of Funen, Odense, appeared in the finals. A club had to win five cup championship finals, also known as lots, in order to keep the trophy permanently; the first trophy distributed during the tournament's duration was won by B 1909 in 1930, the second trophy was won by B 1913 in 1939 and the third trophy was won by B 1909 in 1944 after 5 consecutive cup titles.

Finals

Results by team

Teams shown in italics are no longer in existence. B 1909 won the second and last edition, won the most cup titles and lost the second largest number of final matches.
ClubWinsFirst final wonLast final wonRunners-upLast final lostTotal final appearances
B 190914192119539195223
B 191310192519525195115
Odense BK51920195113195318
BK Marienlyst319291933219355
Svendborg BK119471947119282
Odense KFUM0219442
B 19220119231