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DBU Copenhagen () is the local governing body for association football and futsal in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are responsible for the governance and development of men's and women's football at all levels in the region. DBU Copenhagen is a member of the union of local football associations, DBU Bredde, under the Danish Football Association (DBU) and the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF). The headquarters is located at the Svanemølleanlægget at Østerbro after previously having their residence at the Parken. Clubs situated in the municipalities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Gentofte, Tårnby and Dragør can be accepted as members of DBU Copenhagen. Due to historical reasons, several older clubs from other municipalities are also members of the association. As of 2020, the association consisted of 157 clubs and 45,627 members with the Østerbro-based club BK Skjold being the largest club membership-wise within the association and on a national level.
Founded in 1903 as Kjøbenhavns Boldspil-Union (KBU), the spelling was changed in 1936 to Københavns Boldspil-Union (). Its current name was adopted on 1 February 2011. The regional football association publishes a magazine Fodboldmagasinet København. It has four annual issues and is published in 3,500 copies. The magazine was revived in January 2005 (the first edition was released in week 6) after a couple of years without a members magazine or football magazine focusing on association football in Copenhagen and related topics. Between 2005 and 2016, the publication was named Københavnsk Fodbold, until it was renamed in 2017.
In 1906, Fælledklubbernes Boldspil-Union (FBU) merged with Kjøbenhavns Boldspil-Union, when they realized that a cooperation was necessary for the future plans for Fælledparken. The football associations in the surrounding areas, Amager Boldspil-Union (founded 1912), Nordre Birks Boldspil-Union (founded 1913), Valby Boldspil-Union (founded 1913) and Nørrebro Boldspil-Union (founded 1916), merged to form Københavns Forstadsklubbers Bold Union (KFBU) in 1916 and after intense negotiations, KFBU eventually became a provisional member of KBU and ultimately in the period spanning from 1921 to 1923 the clubs from the football associations of Amager, Valby and Nørrebro became full members of KBU, while the clubs of Nordre Birk became members of Zealand Football Association (SBU).
As a consequence of the capital's increasing development and growth at the end of World War I, disagreement between the Zealand FA and KBU arose regarding the membership of clubs located at the border between the two football associations. The most general view was that clubs playing in the metropolitan area of Copenhagen should be members of KBU, while clubs in the northern part of the metropolitan area, Nordre Birk (Gentofte, Gladsaxe and Lyngby-Tårbæk) should be members of SBU. In 1945, a border agreement was signed, so KBU included clubs based in Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Gentofte, Tårnby and Dragør, while all other clubs would become members of SBU unless they had always been members of KBU. This border agreement was formalized in 1971. This resulted in some unclear results and as a direct consequence of Akademisk Boldklub being forced to switch their membership from KBU and SBU on 1 January 1962, the agreement was temporarily terminated by KBU effective at the end of 1965, even though SBU did not accept the termination.
The organization's first residence was an office in the 'Fælledklubhuset' on the other side of the grandstand, that was part of Københavns Idrætspark. The official address was later moved to Østerbrogade, on top of the Park restaurant, before moving back to the national stadium's old north stand. The offices of the administration remained here for 40 years until moving to B.93's building at Svanemølleanlægget on 1 March 1996 due to issues with paying the yearly rent of DKK 150,000 in the newly rebuilt Parken stadium. On 17 August 2021, the representatives at DBU København voted against a merger with DBU Sjælland, DBU Lolland-Falster and DBU Bornholm to create an eastern regional football organization as part of the reform process of the grassroots organization of DBU Bredde.
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