Hellerup vs B.93: Match Preview, Predictions and Betting Tips
Published on Wednesday, 11 November 2026 by Steve
Hellerup vs B.93 Prediction
Denmark 2. Division Prediction & Betting Tips
Match Overview
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A genuine Copenhagen-area derby lights up the Danish 2. Division autumn programme on Friday night as Hellerup IK (HIK) welcome Boldklubben af 1893 (B.93) to Gentofte Sportspark for the Grundspil Round 16 clash, kick-off 19:00 CET. Although the two clubs are separated by only a few kilometres of the Danish capital's northern suburbs, they arrive at this fixture on very different trajectories. B.93, relegated from the 1st Division last spring after finishing 11th of 12, have rebuilt ambitiously and sit third in the table with promotion ambitions fully intact. HIK, who finished a creditable fifth in 2025/26, have endured a frustrating autumn and currently occupy 10th place with a record of four wins, three draws and eight defeats from 15 rounds, scoring just 14 goals while conceding 25. If you enjoy studying fixtures like this one, our daily football predictions for today cover games from every corner of the globe.
The form lines could hardly be more contrasting. B.93 have won three of their away matches this season and come into the derby off the back of an impressive 3-1 victory at Thisted on 1 November, a game in which they led 2-0 at half-time before sealing the points after Thisted briefly rallied. That followed a narrow 2-3 home defeat to Brabrand on 24 October, in which new signing Julius Voldby found the net after just 15 minutes. HIK, by comparison, lost their most recent outing 2-1 away to FC Roskilde on 6 November and have managed only four wins all campaign. A young HIK side coached by Anton Leifsson has competed in patches — FootyStats credits them with a healthy 10.14 shots per match and an expected-goals figure of 1.22 — but a 25-goal concession tally and a deeply concerning zero clean sheets in 15 league matches tells its own story. The Danish third tier is notoriously volatile, so keep an eye on our form guide to predicting your next football match before placing any wager.
The reverse fixture back on 21 August at Østerbro Stadion ended in a comfortable 3-0 victory for B.93, a result that contributed directly to the most dramatic story of HIK's neighbours' season: the sacking of head coach Kasper Lorentzen on 15 August, just three rounds into the campaign, following a 4-0 thrashing at Nykøbing FC. Assistant Anders Stisen and goalkeeping coach Jimmi Klitland stepped up as an interim duo, and after the club held talks with high-profile names including David Nielsen and Glen Riddersholm, the experienced pair have remained in charge and quietly done an excellent job, engineering B.93's climb to third. HIK also endured cup humiliation this season, crashing out of the DBU Pokalen 4-1 to NB Bornholm in late August, so pride as well as points is at stake in Hellerup. With B.93's greater individual quality set against a HIK side that fights hard at home, double chance predictions remain a useful safety net in matches like this.
Tactical Preview
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Formation & Key Matchups
HIK 4-2-3-1
Anton Leifsson has kept faith with a possession-leaning 4-2-3-1 built around a very young squad with an average age of just 22.9. Danish keeper Oliver Thorup starts behind a back line in which loanee Sashwat Rana, borrowed from Malmö FF, adds top-level academy experience at right-back, while David Chernet and Isak Pondor form the central partnership. The double pivot of Jonas Damkjær and Frederik Valdbjørn is tasked with screening a defence that has kept zero clean sheets all season, and everything creative flows through number 10 Andreas Garly, supported by the lively Jonatan Rindom, who leads the club's assist charts. Up front, the physical M. Rasmussen and the pacey Donavan Bagou have shared the striking burden. For a deeper look at how shapes like this fare at this level, read our strongest football formation tactical analysis.
B.93 4-2-3-1
The interim coaching team of Stisen and Klitland have settled on an experienced 4-2-3-1: Frederik Ibsen in goal; Valdemar Lykke and Nicklas Mouritsen as attacking full-backs around centre-backs Emil Christensen and Joseph Kinful, a Lyngby recruit. Mikkel Wohlgemuth anchors the midfield, with summer signing Vito Hammershøy-Mistrati, brought in from AC Horsens, alongside him. The creative keys belong to Bassel Jradi, the experienced Lebanon international playmaker signed from OB on deadline day in September, who operates behind a pacy front three featuring Yasin Belhadj (recruited from Hvidovre) on the right, Mads Abrahamsen on the left and target man Julius Voldby, signed from Kolding IF, through the middle. Danis Faljic, a July arrival from AEL Limassol, adds further depth to an unusually cosmopolitan engine room for this level.
Critical Vulnerability
HIK's critical vulnerability is impossible to miss: they have not kept a single clean sheet in 15 league matches and concede 1.67 goals per game, with their xGA (1.47) confirming the problem is structural rather than unlucky. Their full-back zones are particularly exploitable, and B.93's wingers Belhadj and Abrahamsen are precisely the type of wide runners to attack them. HIK also start games slowly — most of their recent first halves end level, but once the first goal goes in, the floodgates tend to open, with over 2.5 goals landing in 71% of their home fixtures. B.93's own soft spot is a tendency to concede cheap goals in transition, as the 2-3 defeat to Brabrand showed, which gives HIK genuine hope of scoring despite their modest attacking output. This clash of styles makes the goals markets fascinating, and our guide to controlling a match tactically explains why the first goal here matters so much.
Team News & Squad Status
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- Head coach Anton Leifsson continues to lean on one of the youngest squads in the division (average age 22.9), with club legend structure intact from the 2025/26 fifth-place campaign.
- Creative hub Andreas Garly (#10) is carrying a knock and is a fitness doubt, while midfielder Alessio Alicino is also listed with an injury concern ahead of the derby.
- Right-back Sashwat Rana remains on loan from Malmö FF and has been one of HIK's most-used players this season, bringing Swedish top-flight academy standards to the back line.
- Goalkeeper Oliver Thorup (27) has started the majority of league matches, with young Magnus Haslund (18) as his deputy in a youthful keeping department.
- HIK have kept zero clean sheets in 15 league games and have scored only 14 goals — both numbers underline why they sit 10th heading into Round 16.
- The club's DBU Pokalen campaign ended in late August with a 4-1 defeat to NB Bornholm, meaning the league is now the sole focus.
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- Interim co-coaches Anders Stisen and Jimmi Klitland remain in charge after the August sacking of Kasper Lorentzen, with the club having held talks with David Nielsen and Glen Riddersholm before opting for continuity.
- B.93 won the summer market: arrivals include Vito Hammershøy-Mistrati (AC Horsens), Danis Faljic (AEL Limassol), Bassel Jradi (OB), Julius Voldby (Kolding IF) and Nicklas Mouritsen (FC Fredericia), while Ludvig Henriksen cost just €50K from Sønderjyske.
- Last season's top talent Gustav Højbjerg was sold to Norwegian side Sandefjord, yet the club still posted a positive transfer balance of around €250K.
- Experienced former Danish international defender Mathias "Zanka" Jørgensen has been training with the squad, adding pedigree and cover to the centre-back unit.
- Left-back Nicklas Mouritsen is the club's leading league scorer with two goals — a remarkable stat that illustrates the team's threat from wide and set-piece situations.
- B.93 have won three away matches this season and have taken 10 points from their last five league games (W3 D1 L1 form since late September).
Predicted Lineups
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| HIK 4-2-3-1 | B.93 4-2-3-1 |
|---|---|
| Oliver Thorup (GK) | Frederik Ibsen (GK) |
| Sashwat Rana (RB) | Valdemar Lykke (RB) |
| David Chernet (CB) | Emil Christensen (CB) |
| Isak Pondor (CB) | Joseph Kinful (CB) |
| William Adelsten (LB) | Nicklas Mouritsen (LB) |
| Jonas Damkjær (DM) | Mikkel Wohlgemuth (DM) |
| Frederik Valdbjørn (DM) | Vito Hammershøy-Mistrati (CM) |
| Jonatan Rindom (RM) | Yasin Belhadj (RW) |
| Andreas Garly (AM) | Bassel Jradi (AM) |
| Jakob Johansson (LM) | Mads Abrahamsen (LW) |
| M. Rasmussen (ST) | Julius Voldby (ST) |
Head-to-Head Record
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These two historic clubs know each other extremely well. Across 23 competitive meetings, B.93 hold the upper hand with 10 wins to HIK's 7, while six matches have ended level — a rivalry record that leans clearly toward the Østerbro club. The most recent chapter was written on 21 August 2026, when B.93 comfortably won 3-0 at Østerbro Stadion in the reverse league fixture, a result that ultimately helped trigger their own managerial shake-up just days later and left HIK searching for answers against their city neighbours. This fixture has a long history of goals, too: the previous six meetings averaged 4.6 total goals, with an average of two goals in the first halves alone, and B.93 have scored two or more goals in each of their last three encounters with HIK. Goal-hungry punters should bookmark our GG/NG (both teams to score) predictions page for the full picture on this market.
HIK will take some encouragement from their home record in this fixture historically, but the modern trend is stark: B.93 have won 67% of the last six meetings between the sides, and the 3-0 scoreline in August was the biggest margin in the rivalry for some time. The teams actually met four times in the 2022/23 season alone when both were in the third tier, and B.93's promotion to the 1st Division the following year temporarily froze the rivalry until B.93's relegation in 2026 brought it back to life. With the head-to-head average sitting above four goals per game and HIK conceding at nearly 1.7 per match this season while scoring in the majority of their home fixtures, the historical pattern strongly supports another open, entertaining contest in Hellerup.
Key Players Comparison
HIK's creative heartbeat. The 22-year-old playmaker is the man who makes Leifsson's young side tick, drifting between the lines and supplying the strikers. His fitness battle is one of the decisive subplots of this derby.
The most decorated player on the pitch. The Lebanon international joined from OB in September and gives B.93 a level of final-third quality rarely seen in the 2. Division — the difference-maker on paper.
HIK's most reliable penalty-box presence, leading the line for a side that averages barely a goal per game. His aerial ability against the B.93 centre-backs will be HIK's best route to a goal.
Signed from Kolding IF in September and already scoring — he found the net after just 15 minutes against Brabrand. A classic target man whose hold-up play frees Jradi and the wingers.
The individual quality gap is most visible in the number 10 duel. Garly is a fine prospect and HIK's assist hub, with Rindom providing secondary creativity, but Jradi has spent years at a higher level and reads the game a half-second quicker than anyone else on the field — exactly the trait that unlocks a defence with no clean sheets all season. In attack, Rasmussen and Bagou have shared HIK's modest scoring load, whereas Voldby arrives in red-hot derby form and is supported by the league's most productive attacking full-back pairing in Mouritsen (two league goals) and Lykke. If you fancy player-focused markets, remember that low-block visitors to Gentofte tend to give up chances late on; our correct score tips page is the perfect companion for high-value exact-result bets on games like this one.
The Managers
Anton Leifsson (HIK)
Anton Leifsson has built his HIK project on youth, continuity and brave possession football, and last season's fifth-place finish — the club's best campaign at this level in years — validated the approach. His 2026/27 squad is the youngest in the division by some measures, with an average age under 23, and he has shown real faith in academy products and shrewd loan acquisitions such as Rana from Malmö.
The flip side of that philosophy is visible in the numbers: a team this young will concede soft goals, and the zero clean sheets in 15 matches is a reflection of defensive naivety that Leifsson must solve if HIK are to avoid being dragged into the relegation group. The early cup exit to NB Bornholm increased the pressure, and a heavy home defeat to B.93 would turn a disappointing autumn into a genuine crisis at Gentofte Sportspark.
Anders Stisen & Jimmi Klitland (B.93, interim)
Never has the phrase "crisis into opportunity" fitted better. When chairman Lars Lüthjohan Jensen dismissed Kasper Lorentzen in mid-August after a 4-0 loss at Nykøbing and the collapse of a move to Randers for his successor, the club turned to assistant Anders Stisen and goalkeeping coach Jimmi Klitland while publicly courting David Nielsen and Glen Riddersholm. The pair steadied the ship immediately.
Since taking joint charge, the interim duo has overseen a remarkable recovery: B.93 have climbed to third place, won three away games and integrated a wave of summer signings into a coherent, experienced 4-2-3-1. Whatever happens in the dugout long term, Stisen and Klitland have made a compelling case to keep the job, and a derby double over HIK would be the strongest entry yet on their CVs.
Betting Predictions & Tips
Odds: 2.05
The away win is the standout selection. B.93 are third, HIK are 10th; B.93 won the reverse fixture 3-0; HIK have not kept a clean sheet in 15 league matches; and the visitors have won three times on the road already this season. Even away from Østerbro, the gulf in individual quality — Jradi, Voldby, Hammershøy-Mistrati — should tell. In European terms this is close to a coin-flip price on a team that is demonstrably superior, and our European 1X2 betting analysis guide explains why the value sits with the away side.
Odds: 2.40
For those who expect the favourite to dominate, the -1.0 Asian line offers a safety-net price: B.93 win by two or more and the bet pays in full, win by exactly one and the stake is refunded, given the quarter-goal protection of the handicap format. The 3-0 August win, HIK's soft centre and B.93's away scoring record (three goals at Thisted last time out) all support the bolder angle. See also our draw no bet predictions if you prefer an even more conservative structure on favourites.
Odds: 1.70
This fixture's history screams goals: an average of 4.6 total goals across the last six meetings, two goals on average in the first halves of those games, and HIK's 2026/27 profile (71% of home games over 2.5, 25 goals conceded, zero clean sheets). B.93's away matches have been similarly open, with three of their road wins featuring at least three goals. Everything points to a high-total game — check our over/under prediction hub for the latest totals prices.
Odds: 1.65
HIK have scored in the clear majority of their home fixtures this season (86% of home games with at least one goal), and B.93 have conceded in nearly every away match this campaign, keeping no away clean sheets of note. With HIK needing a result in front of their own fans and B.93's attacking unit in excellent form, "yes" on the BTTS market looks close to a formality. Our dedicated GG/NG tips page tracks both teams' scoring patterns week by week.
Odds: 12.00
Our model lands on a 1-3 away victory: B.93's attacking depth proves too much for the league's leakiest defence, but HIK's home scoring record earns them a consolation. At 12.00, the exact score offers outstanding value as a small-stakes speculative play, and pairing it with Voldby to score anytime (around 2.90) or Jradi to score or assist (around 3.40) can build a compelling mini-bet-builder. When hunting long-shot scores, our hot predictions section shows which way the betting market momentum is flowing across Europe.
📊 Final Score Prediction
Match Analysis
We predict a 1-3 away victory for B.93. The logic is straightforward: HIK have kept zero clean sheets in 15 league matches and concede 1.67 goals per game, and they now face the division's most in-form away attack, which put three past Thisted last weekend and three past HIK themselves in August. Jradi's creativity between the lines against a young double pivot, and Voldby's physical presence against Chernet and Pondor, are mismatches that should produce at least two B.93 goals, with Belhadj and Mouritsen adding width-driven pressure throughout.
The case for a HIK goal is genuine, however. Leifsson's side have scored in 86% of their home league games, Garly and Rindom can combine for moments of quality, and B.93 have shown defensive generosity in transition — the 2-3 home loss to Brabrand being the freshest example. Expect B.93 to control the first half, HIK to push after the break and leave space in behind, and the visitors to exploit that space for a late third. A 1-1 half-time scoreline followed by a 1-3 full-time result fits the pattern of both teams' seasons, and for more high-total analysis don't miss our over/under betting guide.
Key Insights & Statistics
- HIK have kept zero clean sheets in 15 league matches this season — the worst defensive record among the Copenhagen-area clubs in the division.
- B.93 have won three of their away fixtures in 2026/27 and beat HIK 3-0 in the reverse meeting at Østerbro Stadion on 21 August 2026.
- The last six HIK vs B.93 meetings have averaged 4.6 total goals, with an average of two first-half goals — a strong over 2.5 trend.
- B.93's head-to-head edge stands at 10 wins to HIK's 7 with 6 draws across 23 competitive meetings (67% B.93 wins in the last six).
- B.93 have won three of their last four league matches since late September, including a 3-1 victory at Thisted on 1 November where they led 2-0 at half-time.
- HIK playmaker Andreas Garly and midfielder Alessio Alicino are both injury doubts for the derby.
- B.93 midfielder Nicklas Mouritsen is the club's top league scorer with two goals — evidence of their threat from wide areas and set pieces.
- HIK average 10.14 shots per match with an xG of 1.22 — they create enough to score at home, but convert at only 8%.
Conclusion
Hellerup versus B.93 is a derby in name, geography and history, but the 2026/27 form book makes it a mismatch in everything else. B.93's summer rebuild — funded by a positive transfer balance and topped up with the astute free arrivals of Jradi, Voldby and Hammershøy-Mistrati — has transformed a relegated side into genuine promotion contenders sitting third in the table. The interim coaching team of Stisen and Klitland deserves enormous credit for that turnaround, and Friday night in Gentofte is another chance to cement their claims on the job permanently.
HIK, for their part, are at a crossroads. Leifsson's ultra-young project produced a fifth-place finish last season but is currently producing zero clean sheets, a negative goal difference and a 10th-place standing. The derby atmosphere at Gentofte Sportspark will give them energy, and they have scored consistently at home, but unless Garly wins his fitness battle and the back line finally clicks, it is hard to see them containing the division's most productive away attack for 90 minutes. For bettors, the away win at 2.05 and the over 2.5 goals at 1.70 are the anchor plays, with the 1-3 correct score at 12.00 the speculative icing. Follow how our other picks perform via the bet of the day page, and stay tuned to our livescores for full-time confirmation from Hellerup.
Prediction: HIK 1-3 B.93. The visitors' quality, form and head-to-head dominance should prove decisive, but expect HIK to make a fight of it in front of their own fans before B.93 pull away in the second half. Whatever the outcome, this Copenhagen-area clash is one of the most compelling fixtures in the 2. Division this round — and one we expect to live up to its four-goal average when the final whistle blows on Friday night.
