2019–20 Brøndby IF season  2019–20 Brøndby IF season is Brøndby IF's 39th consecutive season in the best Danish football league, the 30th consecutive in Superligaen, and the 54th as a football club. Besides Superligaen, the club competes in DBU Pokalen and UEFA Europa League. It is the first season with head coach Niels Frederiksen, after replaced caretaker Martin Retov.  1 July 2019 Brøndby announced that they had hired Niels Frederiksen as their new head coach, on a two year contract. He joined the team after the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship that same summer. Besides this Matthias Jaissle left the club, while caretaker Martin Retov, assumed his former position as assistant, along with new signing Jesper Sørensen. Besides this, Matthias Borst, Claus Fallentin, Lars Høgh and Ahron Thode all remained with the club. The day before the first competitive game of the season, Brøndby IF announced that they had replaced CEO Jesper Jørgensen with the commercial director Ole Palmå. At the same time, it was announced that Ebbe Sand resigned from his job as sporting director after only six months in the job, as Carsten V. Jensen was hired as Executive Football Director, and Sand did not want another role in the staff of the club. In March of 2019, the club updatede their "Strategi 6.4", which among other things meant the club changed the sporting goals, so as the club in this and next season should qualify for the championship playoff in the Superligaen, as to secure European qualification from 2021-22. Ebbe Sand announced before the end of the previous season, that it was an objective of the club to slim the squad, and make it younger, i order for the clubs talents to make their breakthrough as senior players easier. On July 13, 2019 Brøndby IF announced that they had secured the Danish authorities permit to place a video surveillance system at Brøndby Stadium The technology should be used to recognize fans who had quarantine from the stadium, and was used the first time for the first home game of the season, against Silkeborg IF. After the record for most season passes the previous season, the record for renewals were broken this season. 8,157 renewed their season pass, which equalled an increase of 27 % compared to the year before.