Denmark

Hørsholm-Usserød

DenmarkStade: Hørsholm Idrætspark, Rungsted Kyst (3 000 places)Entraîneur: T. Jeppesen

Histoire

Hørsholm-Usserød Idrætsklub, widely known as HUI or HUI Fodbold, is a Danish football club based in Rungsted, north of Copenhagen. The club competes in the Danish 3rd Division, the fourth tier of the Danish football league system, having gained promotion to divisional football for the first time in its history in 2025.

Founded in 1962 through the merger of the Hørsholm and Usserød clubs, HUI functions as an umbrella organisation that also encompasses a handball section; a gymnastics section operated alongside football and handball until 2024. The club has approximately 1,400 members and 150 coaches and administrators across all age groups, making it one of the larger amateur football clubs in Denmark. Its home ground is Hørsholm-Usserød Idrætspark, situated in Rungsted. The Danish Football Association (DBU) awarded the club two licence stars in 2024 in recognition of its youth development work.

HUI is primarily known beyond North Zealand as the childhood club of Rasmus Højlund, who grew up in Hørsholm and began his career at the club before joining FC Copenhagen, and later representing, Manchester United and Napoli as well as the Denmark national team, among others. His twin brothers Emil and Oscar Højlund, both professional footballers, also began their careers at HUI.

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Hørsholm-Usserød Idrætsklub was founded in 1962 through the merger of the Hørsholm and Usserød local sports clubs. The football section developed as a grassroots organisation serving Hørsholm Municipality. For much of its early history the club competed in the lower tiers of the regional Danish pyramid, and its best results in national cup competition have been reaching the third round of the Danish Cup on several occasions. The most recent of these came in 2022–23, when HUI defeated B73 and Tune before losing 2–1 at home to AC Horsens of the Danish Superliga in the third round.

In 2009, HUI entered a collaborative arrangement with the nearby Nivå-Kokkedal Fodboldklub to form a joint senior side, FC Øresund, which entered the Zealand Series, the highest division administered by DBU Zealand. The new entity secured promotion to the Denmark Series—the fifth tier of Danish football—in 2010, and went on to finish fourth in the 2011–12 Denmark Series season. The partnership was dissolved in 2015.

The end of the FC Øresund arrangement was followed by a period of decline for HUI's senior side. Relegation to Serie 1 came in 2017, and to Serie 2 in 2018. The club then reversed its fortunes rapidly: promotion back to Serie 1 was secured in 2019, followed by a return to the Zealand Series in 2020, and promotion to the Denmark Series in the summer of 2023, ending an eight-year absence from that level.

The club's greatest competitive achievement came in June 2025, when HUI defeated ASA from Aarhus 4–1 on aggregate in the promotion play-off—winning 1–0 in the first leg and 3–1 in the second—to gain admission to the Danish 3rd Division for the 2025–26 season, the first occasion in the club's history that it had competed at divisional level.

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