Danish Bundesliga players represented by runners at 2025 Copenhagen Marathon | OneFootball

The 2025 Copenhagen Marathon took place in the Danish capital on Sunday morning - and the Bundesliga decided to bring a German football twist to the event.

Six runners dressed up in costumes representing key players from Denmark in the Bundesliga: Eintracht Frankfurt defender Rasmus Kristensen; RB Leipzig forward Yussuf Poulsen; VfL Wolfsburg defender Joakim Mæhle and forward Jonas Wind; VfB Stuttgart winger Jacob Bruun Larsen; and Werder Bremen midfielder Jens Stage. The Bundesliga also had someone wearing a full-body red spandex uniform on hand, offering a code for runners to scan and win Bundesliga-related prizes, in partnership with Danish Bundesliga broadcaster Viaplay.

The Bundesliga currently has 16 players from Denmark, the fourth most represented country in the league (after Germany itself, France, and Austria). Nine teams have Danish players actively on their squads; a quarter of the players are from VfL Wolfsburg alone (Mæhle, Wind, Andreas Skov Olsen, and Mads Roerslev), and there are also numerous Danish coaches rumoured to be among the candidates to be Ralph Hasenhüttl's successor by the time that the next season starts in August.

Photo: VfL Wolfsburg/DFL

The runners warmed up at Fælledparken, not too far from the start and finished points; started on Østerbrogade, ran around the city's major streets and past some of Copenhagen's beautiful landmarks, and finished just a few hundred metres from where the marathon originally began. The runners completed the marathon as a group in 4 hours and 53 minutes, with Leipzig's Poulsen being the first to cross, followed by Frankfurt's Kristensen.

The reason why the runners brought German football to the Marathon was to promote the final day of the 2024/25 Bundesliga season, with all nine matches set to start at the exact same time, this Saturday at 15.30 CEST.