List of Danmarksturneringen i kvindefodbold clubs
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The Danmarksturneringen i kvindefodbold (shortened to Kvinde-DM, or simply DM) is a women's association football league tournament in Denmark, comprising the top three nation-wide semi-professional and amateur divisions of the Danish football league system.[1] The women's national league system was established by the Danish FA in 1975, following the discontinuation of the end-of-the season knock-out tournament format for the women's national championship after two editions (1973–1974).[2][3] The first season, 1975 Danmarksturneringen i damefodbold, involved twenty teams — that had qualified through the regional football league championships — split equally into two geographically divided groups with the two group winners progressing to a national championship final.[4] A combined nation-wide first division was introduced in 1981, a second division was implemented in 1993 and a third division was added in 2021.[3][5] Initially formed as an amateur tournament, professionalism was legalized and restricted to the Danmarksturneringen in July 1997, with the first semi-professional player contracts in Danish women's football being signed by Fortuna Hjørring og Frederiksberg BK.[6][7][8] The tournament have always been organized by the Danish FA. The clubs finishing bottom of the Danmarksturneringen's basement division have since the 1981-season been relegated to the Kvindeserien, the highest level of women's amateur football in the country.
The list includes clubs that are current members of the Danmarksturneringen, those who lost their Danmarksturneringen status upon relegation, and those which lost their status by other means. This includes clubs which have become defunct, merged or created superstructures with one or several neighbouring clubs, or have been relegated to a lower non-league position in the national league pyramid. Where a defunct club has been succeeded by a phoenix club, the new club is listed. If a club now only fields youth teams and no senior women's teams, the club's senior women's department is listed as inactive.