AGF fan travels from Australia without a ticket to celebrate historic championship

Wednesday 13th 2026 on 17:15 in  
Denmark
denmark, football, sports culture

A 33-year-old Danish-Australian football fan has flown over 20 hours from Perth to Aarhus in a desperate bid to witness AGF’s first league title in 40 years—despite not having a ticket for Sunday’s decisive match, reports DR.

Tobias Hamburger, a bricklayer based in Perth, requested two weeks off work last Wednesday to make the journey. His employer, whom he described as “a big believer in living your life,” approved the leave after seeing how much the trip meant to him. Hamburger landed in Denmark on Friday, joining thousands of AGF supporters hunting for tickets to the sold-out championship celebration at Ceres Park.

“I’d pay a lot of money for a ticket,” Hamburger told DR. “I’d even offer two days of bricklaying work to whoever can get me one.” When asked if travelling halfway across the world without a guaranteed seat was reckless, he replied: “I’ve been a fan my whole life. If I misbehaved as a kid, my dad would threaten to ban me from AGF matches. Sunday will be the best day of my life—I’d have been heartbroken staying in Australia.”

Hamburger has lived abroad since 2014, residing in New Zealand, England, and most recently Australia. His Scottish colleague coincidentally took the same flight to Europe, returning to support Hearts FC in their own title race.

Meanwhile, local fans face equal desperation. Troels Engelbrecht, a screenwriter from Stilling near Aarhus, compared securing a ticket to “finding coffee during World War II.” After exhausting his network—including AGF board chairman Lars Fournais, who replied that 50,000 others were making the same request—Engelbrecht even offered his nephew 3,500 DKK (€470) for his ticket. “He just said, ‘Troels, it’s not about the money,’” Engelbrecht recounted.

With no ticket in sight, Engelbrecht may settle for standing outside the stadium. “It’s deeply sad not to be inside,” he admitted. AGF last won the Danish Superliga in 1986, and Sunday’s match marks the club’s first championship since then.

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(via DR)