The historic tournament began on 5 February 1888, with a match between Boldklubben Haabet and Boldklubben Pollux, with the former winning 2–0. The first goal of the match was scored by ″Mr. Frederiksen″, who has thus gone down in Danish football history as the first goalscorer in an actual tournament; while the second goal was netted by ″Mr. Sivertsen". Haabet built up on this win and even went all the way to the final, where the clear superiority of KB was too great for them to handle. On 29 April 1888, KB won the final with a resounding 14–0 victory, and the club's sovereignty was underlined by the fact that the club scored 40 goals in the four games they played and did not concede a single goal.
