Tipsbladet
CategoriesSports magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderElwin Hansen
Founded1948
CountryDenmark
Based inCopenhagen
LanguageDanish
Websitewww.tipsbladet.dk

Tipsbladet is a weekly Danish sports magazine focusing on football. It the oldest football magazine in Scandinavia[1] and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

History and profile

Tipsbladet was founded by Elwin Hansen in 1948.[1] The magazine, published on a weekly basis,[2] is based in Copenhagen.[3] The publisher of the weekly is TIPS-bladet A/S.[4] As of 2015 Troels Bager Thogersen was the editor-in-chief of the magazine,[5] which exclusively focuses on national Danish football leagues.[6]

On 5 October 2012 Tipsbladet became the Friday edition of the newspaper Ekstra Bladet.[1] Then it began to be published as a section of its Tuesday and Friday issues.[7] In September 2023, it was announced Tipsbladet had been acquired by the Copenhagen-headquartered digital sports media group, Better Collective, for €6.5 million.[8]

In 1975 Tipsbladet sold 32,380 copies.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ekstra Bladet / Tipsbladet" (PDF). INMA. 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. ^ Europa World Year. London; New York: Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1439. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
  3. ^ "TIPS-bladet". European Sports Media. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Company Overview of TIPS-bladet A/S". Bloomberg. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  5. ^ Sean Ingle (27 July 2015). "How Midtjylland took the analytical route towards the Champions League". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  6. ^ Stine Liv Johansen (2015). "Being a Football Kid. Football as a Mediatised Play Practice". In Alexandra Schwell; Nina Szogs; Malgorzata Kowalska; Michał Buchowski (eds.). New Ethnographies of Football in Europe: People, Passions, Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-137-51698-5.
  7. ^ Gertrud Pfister; Verena Lenneis; Svenja Mintert (2013). "Female fans of men's football – a case study in Denmark". Soccer & Society. 14 (6): 852. doi:10.1080/14660970.2013.843923. S2CID 145501859.
  8. ^ Jonny Whitfield (18 September 2023). "Better Collective acquiring Tipsbladet for €6.5m". Intergame.
  9. ^ Aage Erhardtsen (May 1978). Evolution of concentration and competition in the Danish newspaper and magazine sector. Brussels: Commission of the European Communities. ISBN 9789282504635.

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