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Rishøj IF Fodbold (1971–2004)

The club was originally founded as a merger between Ølsemagle Idrætsforening and Ølby Gymnastikforening at a general meeting at Kirstinedalsskolen on 17 June 1971, becoming part of the new sports club Rishøj Idrætsforening as consequence of the large building and population expansion in the adjacent area, especially relating to the conclusion of the building of Rishøjhallen. The two neighboring sports club, Skensved Gymnastikforening and Skensved Boldklub, were also involved in the negotiations regarding the merger, but earlier in the spring the same year the two clubs eventually choice not to participate. At the club's foundation, the club counted 500 members spread over four departments; gymnastic, association football and badminton. Per 1 October 1971, Rishøj IF fielded four senior men's association football teams consisting of 60 players, nine youth football teams and one women's football team, which in total amounted to almost 200 football players, that were all using a football field next to Kirstinedalsskolen and a field at Ølby Lyng borrowed by Kemisk Værk Køge (KVK; later known as Sun Chemicals). Before the first Danish football association organising women's association football, Dansk Kvinde Fodbold Union (DKFU), seized to exist during February 1972, the club's youth and senior women's teams were transferred to Zealand Football Association (SBU), and started playing in their first tournaments the same season. In 1972, Rishøj IF expanded with three departments (volleyball, table tennis and billiard) becoming the largest sports club in Køge Municipality with 1,200-1,300 members, in 1982 an 8th department (folk dance) was included, in 1990 Øslemagle Motion became the 9th department, and the 10th department (swimming) was launched in 1992.

Ølsemagle Gymnastikforening was founded at a meeting on Søvilla Hotel on 6 December 1940 by men and women residing in Ølsemagle, but was later renamed Ølsemagle Idrætsforening (ØIF) to better reflect the fact that the club now also included other sports departments than gymnastics The football department became the third department to Ølsemagle GF and played their matches a field referred as strandegnen facing Søvilla Hotel. As per 1 June 1969 Ølsemagle GF included departments for gymnastics, handball, badminton and association football (known as Ølsemagle Fodbold), which in 1970 became separate departments organised under one common board. Ølby Gymnastikforening had been founded on 19 October 1955 and a football department (also referred to as Ølby Boldklub) was included in the spring of 1956 with the support of the company, Kemisk Værk Køge (KVK), who made their field at Ølby Lyng available for free to the new club. In order for the new sport club to be founded, both Øslemagle IF and Ølby GF had to be dissolved beforehand. Øslemagle IF held an extraordinary general meeting the same evening, dissolving the club, just ahead of Rishøj IF's founding meeting, where all the members of both founding clubs were invited. The highest ranking senior men's team of the two founding clubs, Øslemagle IF Fodbold, was playing in the SBU Series 4 league in the 1971 season and hence transferred their playing license to Rishøj IF's football department, which for the 1972-season would also be presiding over a reserve team at the same league level and a second reserve team in SBU Series 5 league. Due to the club being founded halfway through the season, the first board of the new club decided, that each team would continue playing the remaining part of season under the previous names, under which they had been registered for their tournaments, and then switch to the new sport club's name from the beginning of the tournaments' upcoming season.

In the 1991-season, the senior men's team for the football department finished as the runners-up in the Zealand Football Association's regional league group at the fourth level, Series 3, (8th level in the overall Danish football league system), which gained them promotion to the SBU Series 2. The team lost the season's last match away against Lellinge IF (ending the season at the first place), which would otherwise secured the group league title and qualification for the overall Zealand Series 4 League Championship title. The club's first team only stayed in the league for one season, as they were promoted once again with the guidance of their coach René Haargaard. This time, the team finished ahead of their old rivals, Lellinge IF (located less than 6 km between each other's respective home grounds), securing the league group title and eventually winning the trophy for the Series 2 League Championship — after winning their semi-final match 2–1 against the second reserve team of Roskilde B1906 on 24 October 1992 and the league final on 31 October 1992 at their own home ground, Lyngvejens Stadium in front of 300 spectators, against the reserve team for Hillerød G&IF with the score 2–1.