The Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are autonomous territories within Denmark, have their own football associations and are not part of the DBU. Greenland is not a member of FIFA or any continental federation, but the Faroe Islands are a member of both FIFA and UEFA.
The DBU awards the best national team players each year, with an award to the best senior team player, as well as the best player in three of the DBU's six national youth teams. ;Player of the Year Since 1963, the DBU has awarded the Danish Player of the Year in a vote amongst the Danish players. In the time of amateur football, only players in the domestic league could achieve the prize, and even after the emergence of paid football in 1978, no players in foreign clubs were eligible for the award. When the award was finally opened to all Danish players, domestic and abroad, in 1983, national team captainMorten Olsen was the first player to win the Player of the Year award taking all Danish players into consideration. The record number of award wins is four, by Brian Laudrup. ;Young Players of the Year The Young Players of the Year Awards on the other hand are sponsored by Arla Foods, the awards were initially known as Mælkens talentpriser in order to promote the line of dairy products of the company then known as "MD Foods". DBU found new sponsor DONG, an oil company, in 2004 but Arla went on to sponsor the prize which was renamed Arla's talentpriser in 2005.
;Women's national team In 2017 the negotiations about terms and salary with the women's national team broke down causing DBU to cancel the world cup qualification match against Sweden. The team lost the match 3-0 due to forfeit. DBU was handed a fine by the UEFA disciplinary comity. The national team and DBU came to an agreement before the match was supposed to be played, but the match was already cancelled. The team then failed to qualify directly to the world cup. A playoff match will decide is the team will qualify to the world cup. ;Men's national team After the world cup 2018, the agreement between DBU and the men's national team expired. The negotiations about terms and salary is still ongoing. Currently DBU has selected a squad without any players from the top tier of international and national leagues. The team is to play two matches. DBU refuses to negotiate while before the end of the two matches.
