For more than a century AGF have been based in the Royal Grove, known as the green heart of Aarhus.<\/p>\n
Their stadium is currently being rebuilt, removing the athletics track, increasing the capacity from 20,000 to 24,000 and giving them state-of-the-art facilities set to host international matches.<\/p>\n
AGF had the Superliga’s fifth highest budget this season and the club said the economic benefit from their new stadium – set to be completed in March 2027 – will help them close the gap on Brondby, Copenhagen and Midtjylland.<\/p>\n
The irony is they have managed to end their title drought while playing at a temporary base on the other side of town, which Maznikar-Hansen describes as “spartanic”.<\/p>\n
The ground previously had 100 seats and was abandoned by a semi-professional team because the pitch was so poor. AGF had to install a hybrid pitch, floodlights and temporary seats that hold 12,000. Only one stand has a roof.<\/p>\n
But with the fans so close to the pitch, it has created an atmosphere in which the team have flourished.<\/p>\n
Poulsen has been a different kind of leader to his predecessor Uwe Rosler, bringing a calmer approach. He changed the formation from 3-5-2 to 3-4-3 and to a possession-based game.<\/p>\n
He switched Kristian Arnstad from defensive midfield to a more attacking role, helping put the 22-year-old in contention for Norway’s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
Former South Africa international Gift Links has been a consistent threat on the left wing, veteran striker Patrick Mortensen has led by example and Tobias Bech is their top scorer, but AGF have not relied on any stars.<\/p>\n
“We don’t have the best players in the league, but we’ve had the best team,” says Beikes, who succeeded his mother Anja Lilli as chair of AGF’s fan club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than a century AGF have been based in the Royal Grove, known as the green heart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-675488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}