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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.

Staff changes
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.

Goal of the season
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.

Stadium and attendance
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.

Season
The season officially started with a VO2max-test on June 19, and the first training session was on June 20, 2019. After this they played som friendlies, before the first competitive game on July 11, against FC Inter Turku from Finland.

In
Updated: 2019-7-6 Source: brondby.com

Out
Updated: 2019-6-21 Source: brondby.com

Brøndby Player of the Month
Brøndby Player of the Month is an monthly award, in which the fans decides who has been the best player in the last month. The fans can vote on three players picked by the club. The voting begins after the last game each month, and is done through Facebook

Overview
Last updated: 2019-8-12 Source:brondby.com

Matches
Brøndby IF's matches in the regular season of 2019-20.

Winter
In may 2019 Brøndby IF announced that the training camp in the winter is going to be in Portugal.