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DBU Bredde is a Advocacy group organization for grassroots association football in Denmark () and the six regional associations under the Danish Football Association (DBU); DBU Bornholm, DBU Copenhagen, DBU Funen, DBU Jutland, DBU Lolland-Falster and DBU Zealand. DBU Bredde is one of three formal members of the Danish FA (the others being Divisionsforeningen and Kvindedivisionsforeningen), is subject to the laws and regulations of the national association, and elects two out of seven members to the board of the Danish FA. The nationwide organization consists of a board of representatives and a board of directors (the chairmen of each regional football association and an observer), representing their member's political and strategic interests towards the Danish FA, men's professional football represented by Divisionsforeningen (DF), women's elite football represented by Kvindedivisionsforeningen (KDF), represented by Danish Football Referee Association (DFU), and the national and local municipalities. Areas of co-operation between the members include the education of coaches and referees, counseling on club development, and volunteering.
Founded in 1970 as Foreningen af Lokalunioner i Danmark (FLU), it was renamed DBU Bredde on 3 March 2019.
During the 1980s, there were ongoing discussions between the elites and grassroots on how much influence the elite should have especially with regard to the number of votes the Divisionsforeningen should have at the Danish FA's Board of Representatives meeting and the number of representatives on the national football association's board – the grassroots clubs held greater representation than the Divisionsforeningen. In 1991, the FLU put forward a proposal for a structural change that would organizationally divide the Danish FA into a grassroots and an elite section with the Danish FA on top, which was confirmed the same year. The participants at FLU's Board of Representatives meeting held on 7 February 1998 at Vissenbjerg adopted an amendment, which halved the FLU's board from twelve to six members, meaning that moving forwards there would only be one representative from each of the DBU's regional associations. On 3 March 2019, the name was changed to DBU Bredde after an approval by the Danish FA's board of directors at a board of representatives meeting.
In the early years of professional football in Denmark, amateur clubs received up to DKK 30,000 in compensation, when a home-grown player signed his first contract with a Danish club. However, the Bosman ruling abolished this so-called national transfer system, making it voluntary for Danish professional clubs to send so-called training compensation and solidarity constribution checks to amateur clubs for a player's development. In 2006, the FLU proposed a national transfer system inspired by FIFA's rules for international transfers, that was implemented in 2001, and the national regulations already in use since 2005 and 2006 in Swedish and Norwegian football, but it was rejected by the Divisionsforeningen and never truly debated. On 26 January 2013, a new agreement negotiated between the FLU and Divisionsforeningen went into effect that guaranteed compensation financially via a fixed distribution key for amateur clubs' training and talent development, if a Danish football player signed a contract with a Danish professional club, and when the player was sold to another club.
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