AIK Fotboll
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football club AIK Fotboll (Template:Lse), more commonly known simply as AIK (Template:IPA), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning the public or general sports club), and internationally known as AIK Stockholm,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is a Swedish professional football club from Stockholm,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The club was founded 1891 and the football department was formed in 1896. AIK's home ground is Strawberry Arena, located in Solna, bordering Stockholm City Centre.
AIK has 12 championship titles and is third in the all-time Allsvenskan table. The club holds the record for having played the most seasons in the Swedish top flight.
In Europe, AIK reached the quarter-finals of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, qualified for the 1999–00 UEFA Champions League group stage, and competed in the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League group stage.
History
Kit
The first shirt is black and the second shirt is white. Shorts are white or, on rare occasions, black. Socks are striped in black and yellow; second socks are all white. A yellow third jersey was used in 2004, an orange third jersey was used in 2007, a dark-blue third jersey was used in 2010 and a grey commemorative third jersey was used in 2016. A dark-blue first shirt was used for the 2017–2018 UEFA Europa League qualification campaign.
When Adidas was the kit provider, new kits were launched every even year. Nike, however, releases a new AIK kit every year, before the start of the new season.
Apart from the brand of their kit provider Nike, AIK has the logos of the following sponsors visible on their shirt and shorts: Truecaller a caller-ID app; Svea, a financial group; German automakers Volkswagen; Stadium, a sports retailer, and league sponsors Svenska Spel, a government-owned gambling company (whose logo is mandatory on the right sleeve of the shirts of all Allsvenskan teams).
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor (chest) |
|---|---|---|
| 1975–77 | Template:Flagicon Adidas | None |
| 1978–80 | Template:Flagicon Puma | |
| 1981 | Template:Flagicon Hummel | Eldorado (grocery brand) |
| 1982–84 | Template:Flagicon Umbro | BPA (technical installation) |
| 1985–88 | Template:Flagicon Nike | BPA or Första Sparbanken (banking company) |
| 1989–90 | Template:Flagicon Puma | Folksam (insurance company) |
| 1991 | Folksam or Kombilott (lottery) | |
| 1992 | Folksam or Trippellott (lottery) | |
| 1995–96 | Scandic (hotel chain) | |
| 1997 | Hyundai (automaker) | |
| 1998–2016 | Template:Flagicon Adidas | Åbro (brewery) |
| 2017 | Hjärt-Lungfonden (charity)Template:Efn | |
| Åbro | ||
| 2018–2022 | Template:Flagicon Nike<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Notar (real-estate agent)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2023– | Truecaller (caller-ID app)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
Stadium
Template:Main Since the 2013 season, AIK play their home games at the Nationalarenan (known for sponsorship reasons as Strawberry Arena since 2024), which also houses the Sweden national team. The decision which arena would replace Råsunda, the club's home up until the 2012 season, was made by a vote of the club's members, held in 2011, which resulted in a large majority favoring Nationalarenan over Tele2 Arena.Template:Citation needed
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Support
Rivalries
AIK's main rival is Djurgården, also formed in 1891 in Stockholm, just three weeks after AIK. Widely considered the fiercest rivalry in Swedish – and arguably also Nordic – football,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the fixture between the clubs is known as Tvillingderbyt (the Twin derby). AIK also maintains a strong animosity towards the third major Stockholm side Hammarby. The club's biggest rival outside the Stockholm urban area is IFK Göteborg, followed by Malmö FF.
Attendances
In 2023, AIK had an average attendance of 25 739, the biggest in Allsvenskan, despite not doing well in the league.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2006 AIK had an average attendance of over 21,000, the highest in Sweden that season.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2007 AIK had an average attendance of over 20,000.
AIK have had the highest average attendance 41 times,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the most of all clubs in Sweden of all time, second is city rival IFK Göteborg with 23 times. AIK finished the 2013 season with an average attendance of 18,900, the highest number in Scandinavia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> That was also the first season with the new arena. In 2018, AIK broke the record for most sold tickets in an Allsvenskan game in the derby against Hammarby two weeks before the game was played.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
Club culture
The club's entrance music and hymn is "Å vi e AIK" (meaning "Oh we are AIK"), a Swedish-lyric version (written in the 1980s) of a 1971 song, "The Last Farewell", originally performed by its co-writer, the British-Kenyan folk singer Roger Whittaker. The recording that has been used as AIK's entrance music since the mid 00s was released in 2002, an arrangement somewhat closer to Elvis Presley's 1976 cover of the song.
Players
First-team squad
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Retired numbers
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Out on loan
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Notable past players
Non-playing personnel
Backroom staff
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Managing Director | Template:Flagicon Fredrik Söderberg |
| Finance Director | Template:Flagicon Håkan Strandlund |
| Head Of Strategy | Template:Flagicon Jeremy Steele |
| Technical Director | Template:Flagicon Peter Wennberg |
| Head Of Scouting And Recruitment | Template:Flagicon Fredrik Wisur Hansen |
Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Template:Flagicon Mikkjal Thomassen |
| Assistant coach | Template:Flagicon Nils Heingård Template:Flagicon Morten Kalvenes |
| Goalkeeping coach | Template:Flagicon Kyriakos Stamatopoulos |
| Fitness coach | Template:Flagicon Fernando Holmqvist Amu Template:Flagicon Lukas Sinkunas Template:Flagicon Elisabet Vang |
Medical staff
| Position | Staff |
|---|---|
| Physiotherapist | Template:Flagicon Victor Lyberg |
| Naprapath | Template:Flagicon Christian Andersson Template:Flagicon Elias Morin |
Other
| Position | Staff |
|---|---|
| Data analyst | Template:Flagicon Paul Kaminiczny |
| Equipment manager | Template:Flagicon Håkan Sjöberg |
| Co-ordinator | Template:Flagicon Thomas Thudin |
| Security manager | Henrik Koch |
Coaching history
- Template:Flagicon Fred Spiksley (1911)
- Template:Flagicon Ferdinand Humenberger (1930–32)
- Template:Flagicon Jimmy Elliott (1932–34)
- Template:Flagicon Per Kaufeldt (1934–40)
- Template:Flagicon Václav Simon (1940–44)
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Istvan Wampetits (1944–48)
- Template:Flagicon George Raynor (1 July 1948 – 30 June 1952)
- Template:Flagicon Per Kaufeldt (1951–56)
- Template:Flagicon Henry Carlsson (1956–58)
- Template:Flagicon Frank Soo (1958)
- Template:Flagicon Erik "Lillis" Persson (1959)
- Template:Flagicon Lajos Szendrödi (1960–61)
- Template:Flagicon Hilding "Moggli" Gustafsson (1962–64)
- Template:Flagicon Henry Carlsson (1965–66)
- Template:Flagicon Ingemar Ingevik (1967–68)
- Template:Flagicon Torsten Lindberg (1 Jan 1969 – 31 December 1970)
- Template:Flagicon Jens Lindblom (1971–74)
- Template:Flagicon Keith Spurgeon (1 Jan 1975 – 31 December 1975)
- Template:Flagicon Kurt Liander (1975)
- Template:Flagicon Lars-Oscar Nilsson (1976)
- Template:Flagicon Gunnar Nordahl (1977–78)
- Template:Flagicon Olavus Olsson (1978 – Dec 78)
- Template:Flagicon Jens Lindblom (1979)
- Template:Flagicon Bo Petersson (1979–80)
- Template:Flagicon Rolf Zetterlund (1 Jan 1981 – 31 December 1986)
- Template:Flagicon Göran Åberg (1987)
- Template:Flagicon Nisse Andersson (1 July 1987–87)
- Template:Flagicon Sanny Åslund (1988–90)
- Template:Flagicon Tommy Söderberg (1991–93)
- Template:Flagicon Hans Backe (1 Jan 1994 – 30 June 1995)
- Template:Flagicon Erik Hamrén (1 Jan 1995 – 31 December 1997)
- Template:Flagicon Stuart Baxter (1 Jan 1998 – Dec 2000)
- Template:Flagicon Olle Nordin (2001–02)
- Template:Flagicon Peter Larsson (2002)
- Template:Flagicon Dušan Uhrin (1 July 2002 – 31 October 2002)
- Template:Flagicon Richard Money (1 Jan 2003 – 19 April 2004)
- Template:Flagicon Patrick Englund (2004)
- Template:Flagicon Rikard Norling (Jan 2005 – Nov 2008)
- Template:Flagicon Mikael Stahre (1 Jan 2009 – 24 April 2010)
- Template:Flagicon Björn Wesström (interim) (26 April 2010 – 22 June 2010)
- Template:Flagicon Alex Miller (22 June 2010 – 10 November 2010)
- Template:Flagicon Andreas Alm (1 Jan 2011 – 13 May 2016)
- Template:Flagicon Rikard Norling (13 May 2016 – 27 July 2020)
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Bartosz Grzelak (31 July 2020 – 19 August 2022)
- Template:Flagicon Henok Goitom (interim) (19 August 2022 – 8 November 2022)
- Template:Flagicon Andreas Brännström (8 November 2022 – 2 July 2023)
- Template:Flagicon Henning Berg (2 July 2023 – 14 June 2024)
- Template:Flagicon Henok Goitom (interim) (18 June 2024 – 16 July 2024)
- Template:Flagicon Mikkjal Thomassen (16 July 2024 – Present)
Honours
League
- Allsvenskan:
- Superettan:
- Winners: 2005
- Mästerskapsserien:
- Winners: 1992
- Svenska Serien:
Cups
- Svenska Cupen
- Svenska Mästerskapet
- Allsvenskan play-offs
- Runners-up: 1986
- Svenska Supercupen
- Corinthian Bowl
- Rosenska Pokalen
- Runners-up: 1899, 1900
- Wicanderska Välgörenhetsskölden
Invitational
- Tournoi de Pentecôte de Paris:
- Winners (1): 1921<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Singapore Community Shield:
- Winners (1): 2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
AIK in Europe
European games
UEFA Team rank
The following list ranks the current position of AIK in UEFA ranking:
| Rank | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 280 | Template:Flagicon CS Fola Esch | 5.000 |
| 281 | Template:Flagicon Aris Limassol | 4.945 |
| 282 | Template:Flagicon AEL Limassol | 4.945 |
| 283 | Template:Flagicon Kalmar FF | 4.875 |
| 284 | Template:Flagicon AIK | 4.875 |
| 285 | Template:Flagicon IFK Göteborg | 4.875 |
| 286 | Template:Flagicon FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 4.680 |
| 287 | Template:Flagicon FC Polissya Zhytomyr | 4.680 |
| 288 | Template:Flagicon Vorskla Poltava | 4.680 |
As of 25 December 2024. Club coefficients | UEFA Coefficients
Footnotes
References
External links
Official
Major fan websites
- AIKforum – fan community
- Gnagarforum – fan community
- Allmänna Supporterklubben. Template:Webarchive.
- Black Army
- Sol Invictus
- Ultras Nord. Template:Webarchive.
- Smokinglirarna Template:Webarchive
- AIK-Tifo – terrace choreographers (archived 27 April 2007)
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