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AIK

Full name	Allmänna Idrottsklubben
Nickname(s)	Gnaget
Short name	AIK
Founded	15 February 1891; 133 years ago (1891-02-15)
Ground	Strawberry Arena
Ground Capacity	54,329 (50,653 international)
Chairman	Mikael Jomer
Head coach	Mikkjal Thomassen
League	Allsvenskan
2024	Allsvenskan, 3rd of 16
Home colours Away colours

AIK Fotboll (LSE: 0DI2), more commonly known simply as AIK (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɑ̂ːiːˌkoː]), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning the public or general sports club), is a Swedish professional football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The club was founded 1891 in Stockholm and the football department was formed in 1896. AIK's home ground is Strawberry Arena, located in Solna, just north of the Stockholm City Centre.

League champions in 2018, 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	Adidas	None
1978–80	Puma
1981	Hummel	Eldorado (grocery brand)
1982–84	Umbro	BPA (technical installation)
1985–88	Nike	BPA or Första Sparbanken (banking company)
1989–90	Puma	Folksam (insurance company)
1991		Folksam or Kombilott (lottery)
1992		Folksam or Trippellott (lottery)
1995–96		Scandic (hotel chain)
1997		Hyundai (automaker)
1998–2016	Adidas	Åbro (brewery)
2017		Hjärt-Lungfonden (charity)
		Åbro
2018–2022	Nike	Notar (real-estate agent)
2023–		Truecaller (caller-ID app)

Stadium

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.

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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, 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 going well in the league. In 2006 AIK had an average attendance of over 21,000, the highest in Sweden that season. In 2007 AIK had an average attendance of over 20,000.

AIK have had the highest average attendance 41 times, 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 Scandnavia. 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.

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

No. Position Player 2 MF Eskil Edh 3 DF Thomas Isherwood 4 DF Sotirios Papagiannopoulos 5 DF Alexander Milošević (captain) 6 MF Martin Ellingsen 7 MF Anton Salétros 8 MF Onni Valakari (on loan from Pafos) 10 MF Bersant Celina 11 FW John Guidetti 12 DF Axel Björnström 14 FW Aaron Stoch Rydell 15 GK Kristoffer Nordfeldt 16 DF Benjamin Tiedemann Hansen 17 DF Mads Døhr Thychosen

No. Position Player 18 MF Abdihakim Ali 19 MF Dino Beširović 20 MF Oscar Uddenäs (on loan from Excelsior) 21 MF Stanley Wilson 22 DF Jimi Nikko (on loan from Lecce) 23 GK Budimir Janošević 24 MF Lamine Fanne 28 FW Ioannis Pittas 30 GK Ismael Diawara 31 FW Emmanuel Gono 37 DF Ahmad Faqa 43 MF Victor Andersson 45 FW Taha Ayari 47 FW Alexander Fesshaie

Retired numbers

1 – Supporters of the club

Out on loan

No. Position Player 26 DF Rasmus Bonde (on loan at Vasalunds IF until 31 December 2024)

No. Position Player 39 FW Henry Atola (on loan at AFC Eskilstuna until 31 December 2024)

Notable past players

Non-playing personnel

Backroom staff

Position	Name
Managing Director	Fredrik Söderberg
Finance Director	Håkan Strandlund
Director of Sports	Thomas Berntsen
Technical Director	Peter Wennberg
Chief Scout	Fredrik Wisur Hansen
Scout	Tobias Ackerman

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Mikkjal Thomassen
Assistant coach	Kazimierz Sokołowski Henok Goitom
Goalkeeping coach	Kyriakos Stamatopoulos
Fitness coach	Pálmar Hreinsson

Medical staff

Position	Staff
Physiotherapist	Victor Lydberg
Naprapath	David Björkman

Other

Position	Staff
Data analyst	Lukas Arndt
Equipment manager	Håkan Sjöberg
Co-ordinator	Thomas Thudin

Coaching history

Honours

• Swedish Champions
  • Winners (12): 1900, 1901, 1911, 1914, 1916, 1923, 1931–32, 1936–37, 1992, 1998, 2009, 2018

League

• Allsvenskan:
  • Champions (6): 1931–32, 1936–37, 1983, 1998, 2009, 2018
  • Runners-up (15): 1930–31, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1938–39, 1946–47, 1972, 1974, 1984, 1999, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021
• Superettan:
  • Winners: 2005
• Mästerskapsserien:
  • Winners: 1992
• Svenska Serien:
  • Runners-up (5): 1910, 1914–15, 1915–16, 1922–23, 1923–24

Cups

• Svenska Cupen
  • Winners (8): 1949, 1950, 1975–76, 1984–1985, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2009
  • Runners-up (8): 1943, 1947, 1968–69, 1991, 1994–95, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002
• Svenska Mästerskapet
  • Winners (6): 1900, 1901, 1911, 1914, 1916, 1923
  • Runners-up: 1898, 1917
• Allsvenskan play-offs
  • Runners-up: 1986
• Svenska Supercupen
  • Winners: 2010
  • Runners-up: 2012
• Corinthian Bowl
  • Runners-up: 1912, 1913
• Rosenska Pokalen
  • Runners-up: 1899, 1900
• Wicanderska Välgörenhetsskölden
  • Winners: 1908, 1909, 1914, 1916
  • Runners-up: 1905, 1906, 1915

Invitational

• Tournoi de Pentecôte de Paris:
  • Winners (1): 1921
• Singapore Community Shield:
  • Winners (1): 2010

AIK in Europe

European games

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Agg.	Notes
1964–65	International Football Cup	Group C2		Angers	4–1	1–3		Placed 2nd
				Sarajevo	2–0	0–2
				Slovnaft Bratislava	3–2	1–7
1965–66	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First round		Bruxelles	0–0	3–1	3–1
		Second round		Servette	2–1	1–4	3–5
1966–67	International Football Cup	Group B3		Carl Zeiss Jena	0–0	1–4		Placed 4th
				Eintracht Braunschweig	3–1	0–1
				Górnik Zabrze	1–1	2–3
1967	International Football Cup	Group B6		AGF	1–0	2–1		Placed 3rd
				Dynamo Dresden	1–4	2–1
				Košice	1–1	0–4
1968–69	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First round		Skeid	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Second round		Hannover 96	4–2	2–5	6–7
1970	International Football Cup	Group B3		Lausanne Sports	1–1	2–2		Placed 3rd
				Marseille	2–2	2–6
				Zagłębie Sosnowiec	2–1	1–2
1973	International Football Cup	Group 2		Duisburg	3–1	1–1		Placed 3rd
				PSV	0–1	0–3
				Slovan Bratislava	1–1	0–0
1973–74	UEFA Cup	First round		B 1903	1–1	1–2	2–3
1974	International Football Cup	Group 6		Linz	3–2	1–6		Placed 4th
				Spartak Trnava	0–1	1–2
				Wisła Kraków	0–3	0–1
1975	International Football Cup	Group 5		Tennis Borussia Berlin	2–3	3–1		Placed 4th
				Polonia Bytom	0–2	1–5
				Zbrojovka Brno	1–2	0–2
1975–76	UEFA Cup	First round		Spartak Moscow	1–1	0–1	1–2
1976	International Football Cup	Group 4		Baník Ostrava	0–1	0–2		Placed 4th
				Eintracht Braunschweig	1–3	1–2
				Tirol Innsbruck	3–3	1–3
1976–77	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round		Galatasaray	1–2	1–1	2–3
1984	International Football Cup	Group 5		Górnik Zabrze	2–3	0–1		Placed 1st
				Magdeburg	2–0	2–0
				Nürnberg	8–2	2–1
1984–85	UEFA Cup	First round		Dundee United	1–0	0–3	1–3
1985	International Football Cup	Group 4		Bohemians Praha	2–1	1–1		Placed 1st
				St. Gallen	0–1	6–1
				Videoton	3–0	0–1
1985–86	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round		Red Boys Differdange	8–0	5–0	13–0
		Second round		Dukla Prague	2–2	0–1	2–3
1987	International Football Cup	Group 6		Lech Poznań	4–1	0–0		Placed 1st
				Lyngby	3–1	2–0
				Plastika Nitra	0–0	0–1
1987–88	UEFA Cup	First round		Vítkovice	0–2	1–1	1–3
1993–94	UEFA Champions League	First round		Sparta Prague	1–0	0–2	1–2
1994	International Football Cup	Group 3		Bayer Leverkusen	3–2			Placed 1st
				Lausanne Sports	2–1
				Sparta Rotterdam	2–2
				Tirol Innsbruck	2–0
1994–95	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		Mažeikiai	2–0	2–0	4–0
		First round		Slavia Prague	0–0	2–2	2–2	Away goal
		Second round		Parma	0–1	0–2	0–3
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	First round		KR	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Second round		Nîmes Olympique	0–1	3–1	3–2
		Quarter-final		Barcelona	1–1	1–3	2–4
1997–98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	First round		Primorje	0–1	1–1	1–2
1999–00	UEFA Champions League	Second round		Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev	2–0	1–0	3–0
		Third round		AEK Athens	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Group B		Arsenal	2–3	1–3		Placed 4th
				Barcelona	1–2	0–5
				Fiorentina	0–0	0–3
2000–01	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		Gomel	1–0	2–0	3–0
		First round		Herfølge	0–1	1–1	1–2
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round		Carmarthen Town	3–0	0–0	3–0
		Second round		OB	2–0	2–2	4–2
		Third round		Troyes	1–2	1–2	2–4
2002–03	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		ÍBV	2–0	3–1	5–1
		First round		Fenerbahçe	3–3	1–3	4–6
2003–04	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		Fylkir	1–0	0–0	1–0
		First round		Valencia	0–1	0–1	0–2
2007–08	UEFA Cup	First qual. round		Glentoran	4–0	5–0	9–0
		Second qual. round		Liepājas Metalurgs	2–0	2–3	4–3
		First round		Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–1	0–0	0–1
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	Second qual. round		Jeunesse Esch	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Third qual. round		Rosenborg	0–1	0–3	0–4
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Play-off round		Levski Sofia	0–0	1–2	1–2
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	Second qual. round		FH	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Third qual. round		Lech Poznań	3–0	0–1	3–1
		Play-off round		CSKA	0–1	2–0	2–1
		Group F		Dnipro	2–3	0–4		Placed 4th
				Napoli	1–2	0–4
				PSV	1–0	1–1
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	Second qual. round		Linfield	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Third qual. round		Astana	0–3	1–1	1–4
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	First qual. round		VPS	4–0	2–2	6–2
		Second qual. round		Shirak	2–0	2–0	4–0
		Third qual. round		Atromitos	1–3	0–1	1–4
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	First qual. round		Bala Town	2–0	2–0	4–0
		Second qual. round		Europa FC	1–0	1–0	2–0
		Third qual. round		Panathinaikos	0–1	0–2	0–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	First qual. round		KÍ	0–0	5–0	5–0
		Second qual. round		Željezničar	2–0	0–0	2–0
		Third qual. round		Braga	1–1	1–2 (aet)	2–3
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	First qual. round		Shamrock Rovers	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Second qual. round		Nordsjælland	0–1	0–1	0–2
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	First qual. round		Ararat-Armenia	3–1	1–2	4–3
		Second qual. round		Maribor	3−2 (aet)	1–2	4−4 (a)
	UEFA Europa League	Third qual. round		Sheriff	1–1	2–1	3–2
		Play-off round		Celtic	1–4	0–2	1–6
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	Second qual. round		Vorskla Poltava	2−0 (aet)	2–3	4−3
		Third qual. round		Shkëndija	1–1	1–1 (aet)	2–2 (3–2 p)
		Play-off round		Slovácko	0−1	0–3	0−4

UEFA Team rank

The following list ranks the current position of AIK in UEFA ranking:

Rank	Team	Points
269	MKS Cracovia	5.075
270	MŠK Žilina	5.000
271	Paide Linnameeskond	5.000
272	FC Milsami	5.000
273	AIK	5.000
274	Lokomotiva Zagreb	4.855
275	Aris Limassol	4.500
276	Celje	4.500
277	Hamrun Spartans	4.500

As of 2 January 2024. Club coefficients | UEFA Coefficients

See also

In Spanish: AIK Estocolmo para niños