500 members were attached to the gymnastics department, which at the time was one of Zealand's largest departments membership wise. During the early mid 1960s, the local politicians at the city and parish councils expressed their wishes for a merger between Ullerød GF and Frederiksborg IF in connection with the upcoming merger in 1966 between the local municipalities; the central Hillerød Købstadskommune and the surrounding Frederiksborg Slotssogns Kommune and Nørre Herlev Kommune, but the proposal for the club merger was eventually rejected with a large majority by the board and members. Up until the 1960s, the then small football department did not draw great attention to itself, playing in the lower ranking regional leagues, primarily the SBU's A-række, with players such as Edvin Nilsson, Svend A. Nielsen og Charly Hansen as the most prominent names in the club's first thirty years. In the 1966/67-season of the Danish Cup, the club reached the first proper round under the Danish FA for the first time, where it was defeated 4–0 by Kastrup BK, while reaching the SBU's Serie 1 in 1967 following two consecutive promotions. Hillerød G&IF (1968–2009) The club was renamed Hillerød Gymnastik- og Idrætsforening (abbreviated HGI) in the spring of 1968 after the debate regarding a name change had been initiated in 1962. A reference to only one of several sports was kept in the name to signify the importance of the gymnastics department and its strong foundation within the club. The need for a name change was in part justified by a judgment from the Zealand FA, that ruled in favour of the away team, Køge, whose players were not able to find the playing ground for Ullerød GF during a league match in the 1960s, thinking that the home team were playing their matches in the district of Ullerød. The club's first real club house was inaugurated in October 1968 at Selskov Stadium, funded partly by grants from Frederiksborg Slotssogn (on the condition that the work would be done by volunteers) and following a two year long construction period, that was started in 1966, and which underway was affected by a storm in February 1967. After the sport club introduced a women's football department in 1970, the men's association football department started being referred as Hillerød GI Herrefodbold, while the women's department was referred to as Hillerød GI Damefodbold. At the club's 40 years anniversary in 1977, the