AIK Fotboll

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 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 Friends Arena, located in Solna, just north of Stockholm City Centre.

AIK
Full nameAllmänna Idrottsklubben
Nickname(s)Gnaget (The Gnaw)
Short nameAIK
Founded15 February 1891 (1891-02-15)
GroundFriends Arena, Solna, Stockholm
Capacity54,329 (50,653 international)[1]
ChairmanRobert Falck
Head coachHenok Goitom
LeagueAllsvenskan
2021Allsvenskan, 2nd
WebsiteClub website
Away colours

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 addition, in this century AIK is the club that has finished top three in Allsvenskan the most times (11), and finished top three six times in a row (2013–2018).

In Europe, have qualified for the group stage of a UEFA competition; the club also 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.

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: Notar, a real-estate agent; BenQ, a Taiwanese electronics company; Svea, a financial group; German automakers Volkswagen; 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)[lower-alpha 1]
Åbro
2018– Nike[3] Notar (real-estate agent)[4]
  1. Åbro donated the space to Hjärt-Lungfonden (a charitable fundraising organization) the first 20 games of the season.[2]

Stadium

Since the 2013 season, AIK play their home games at the Nationalarenan (known for sponsorship reasons as Friends Arena until 2023), which also houses the Swedish national football 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.

Nationalarenan för fotboll

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,[5] 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 2006 AIK had an average attendance of over 21,000, the highest in Sweden[6][7] In 2007 AIK had an average attendance of over 20,000. AIK have had the highest average attendance 39 times, more than any other club in Sweden. AIK finished the 2013 season with an average attendance of 18,900, the highest number in Scandinavia.[8] 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.[9]

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
As of 30 August 2022[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF  SWE Josafat Mendes
3 DF  SWE Per Karlsson
4 DF  SWE Sotirios Papagiannopoulos
5 DF  SWE Alexander Milošević (Vice-captain)
7 MF  SWE Sebastian Larsson (Captain)
8 MF  SWE Bilal Hussein
9 FW  ARG Nicolás Stefanelli
10 MF  SWE Nabil Bahoui
11 FW  SWE John Guidetti
12 DF  SWE Axel Björnström
15 GK  SWE Kristoffer Nordfeldt
17 MF  LUX Vincent Thill (on loan from Vorskla Poltava)
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  SWE Calvin Kabuye
20 MF  IRL Zachary Elbouzedi
22 FW  SWE Benjamin Mbunga Kimpioka
23 GK  SRB Budimir Janošević
24 MF  SWE Jesper Ceesay
25 DF  KEN Erick Otieno
26 MF  SWE Yasin Ayari
28 DF  SWE Rasmus Bonde
29 DF  KEN Collins Sichenje
30 FW  KEN Henry Atola
33 DF  SWE Mikael Lustig
34 FW  SWE Erik Ring

Retired numbers

1 – Fans of the club[11]

Out on loan
As of 31 July 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
6 DF  KOS Jetmir Haliti (to Mjällby AIF until 31 December 2022)
14 DF  SWE Lucas Forsberg (to Sollentuna FK until 31 December 2022)
16 DF  FIN Robin Tihi (to IFK Värnamo until 31 December 2022)
31 GK  DEN Jakob Haugaard (to Tromsø IL until 31 December 2022)
No. Pos. Nation Player
32 MF  SWE Tom Strannegård (to IK Start until 31 December 2022)
35 GK  SWE Samuel Brolin (to Mjällby AIF until 31 December 2022)
37 DF  SYR Ahmad Faqa (to Sandvikens IF until 30 November 2022)

Non-playing personnel

Backroom staff
Position Name
Managing Director Manuel Lindberg
Assistant Managing Director Håkan Strandlund
Director of Sports Henrik Jurelius
Technical Director Peter Wennberg
Head Scout Tobias Ackerman

Coaching staff
Position Staff
Head coach Henok Goitom
Assistant coach Andreas Janmyr
Assistant coach Martin Falk
Goalkeeping coach Kyriakos Stamatopoulos
Fitness coach Pálmar Hreinsson

Medical staff
Position Staff
Physiotherapist Stefan Tanda
Naprapath Luis Oyarzo

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

Coaching history
  • Fred Spiksley (1911)
  • Ferdinand Humenberger (1930–32)
  • Jimmy Elliott (1932–34)
  • Per Kaufeldt (1934–40)
  • Václav Simon (1940–44)
  • Istvan Wampetits (1944–48)
  • George Raynor (1 July 1948 – 30 June 1952)
  • Per Kaufeldt (1951–56)
  • Henry Carlsson (1956–58)
  • Frank Soo (1958)
  • Erik "Lillis" Persson (1959)
  • Lajos Szendrödi (1960–61)
  • Hilding "Moggli" Gustafsson (1962–64)
  • Henry Carlsson (1965–66)
  • Ingemar Ingevik (1967–68)
  • Torsten Lindberg (1 Jan 1969 – 31 Dec 1970)
  • Jens Lindblom (1971–74)
  • Keith Spurgeon (1 Jan 1975 – 31 Dec 1975)
  • Kurt Liander (1975)
  • Lars-Oscar Nilsson (1976)
  • Gunnar Nordahl (1977–78)
  • Olavus Olsson (1978 – Dec 78)
  • Jens Lindblom (1979)
  • Bo Petersson (1979–80)
  • Rolf Zetterlund (1 Jan 1981 – 31 Dec 1986)
  • Göran Åberg (1987)
  • Nisse Andersson (1 July 1987–87)
  • Sanny Åslund (1988–90)
  • Tommy Söderberg (1991–93)
  • Hans Backe (1 Jan 1994 – 30 June 1995)
  • Erik Hamrén (1 Jan 1995 – 31 Dec 1997)
  • Stuart Baxter (1 Jan 1998 – Dec 2000)
  • Olle Nordin (2001–02)
  • Peter Larsson (2002)
  • Dušan Uhrin (1 July 2002 – 31 Oct 2002)
  • Richard Money (1 Jan 2003 – 19 April 2004)
  • Patrick Englund (2004)
  • Rikard Norling (Jan 2005 – Nov 2008)
  • Mikael Stahre (1 Jan 2009 – 24 April 2010)
  • Björn Wesström (interim) (26 April 2010 – 22 June 2010)
  • Alex Miller (22 June 2010 – 10 Nov 2010)
  • Andreas Alm (1 Jan 2011 – 13 May 2016)
  • Rikard Norling (13 May 2016 – 27 July 2020)
  • Bartosz Grzelak (31 July 2020 – 19 August 2022)
  • Henok Goitom (interim) (19 August 2022 – Present)

Honours
  • Swedish Champions[upper-alpha 1]
    • 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[13]
  • Singapore Community Shield:
    • Winners (1): 2010[14]

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 (a.e.t.) 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 (a.e.t.) 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 (a.e.t.) 2–3 4−3
Third qual. round Shkëndija 1–1 1–1 (a.e.t.) 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:

RankTeamPoints
255 FC Ararat-Armenia5.000
256 FK Riteriai5.000
257 Valletta F.C.5.000
258 FC Dinamo Minsk5.000
259 AIK5.000
260 FC Ashdod4.875
261 Beitar Jerusalem FC4.875
262 Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv FC4.875
263 Hapoel Haifa FC4.875

As of 1 March 2022.

Footnotes
  1. The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.[12]

References
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  2. "Åbros sista år som huvudsponsor – skänker platsen på tröjan" (in Swedish).
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  4. "Notar ny huvudsamarbetspartner till AIK Fotboll". 1 December 2017.
  5. "Marching With the Black Army". Sports. 11 September 2015. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
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  7. "Allsvensk statistik – svenskfotboll.se". Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  8. "Allsvensk statistik – svenskfotboll.se". Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  9. "Allmänna Idrottsklubben on Instagram: "Med 13 dagar till avspark i derbyt har vi nu passerat rekordnoteringen från 2015! Det här blir en dag för historieböckerna som du INTE vill…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  10. "Truppen" (in Swedish). AIK. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  11. "AIK Fotboll skänker tröja nummer 1 till publiken" (in Swedish). AIK Fotboll. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  12. "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–" [Swedish champions 1896–1925, 1931–]. svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  13. García, Javier (2009). "International Tournaments (Paris) 1904–1935: Tournoi de Pentecôte de Paris 1921". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  14. "11th Edition of Community Shield to Open Inaugural Singapore Premier League Season". 27 March 2018.
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