AIK Fotboll

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AIK
Allmänna Idrottsklubben Ishockey Logo.svg
Full nameAllmänna Idrottsklubben
Nickname(s)Gnaget (The Gnaw)
Short nameAIK
Founded15 February 1891; 130 years ago (1891-02-15)
GroundFriends Arena, Solna, Stockholm County
Capacity50,622
ChairmanRobert Falck
Head coachBartosz Grzelak
LeagueAllsvenskan
2021Allsvenskan, 2nd
WebsiteClub website
Current season

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, Metropolitan Stockholm.

League champions 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). AIK is consequently the Swedish club that has qualified for UEFA club competitions the most times this century.

Affiliated with the Stockholm Football Association,[1] AIK is the only side from Stockholm to have qualified for the group stage of a UEFA competition; the club reached the quarter-finals of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, qualified for the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League group stage, and competed in the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League group stage.

History[]

Main article: History of AIK Fotboll

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; Stadium, a sporting-goods retail chain; German automakers Volkswagen; and league sponsors Svenska Spel, a government-owned gambling company (whose logo is on the right sleeve of the shirts of all Allsvenskan teams).

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest)
1975–77 Germany Adidas None
1978–80 Germany Puma
1981 Denmark Hummel Eldorado (grocery brand)
1982–84 England Umbro BPA (technical installation)
1985–88 United States Nike BPA or Första Sparbanken (banking company)
1989–90 Germany Puma Folksam (insurance company)
1991 Folksam or Kombilott (lottery)
1992 Folksam or Trippellott (lottery)
1995–96 Scandic (hotel chain)
1997 Hyundai (automaker)
1998–2016 Germany Adidas Åbro (brewery)
2017 Hjärt-Lungfonden (charity)[a]
Åbro
2018– United States 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[]

Main article: Friends Arena

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.[citation needed]

Nationalarenan för fotboll

Support[]

Further information: Allmänna Idrottsklubben § 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,[citation needed] 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 25 December 2021[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 Sweden SWE Joe Mendes
3 DF Sweden SWE Per Karlsson
4 DF Sweden SWE Sotirios Papagiannopoulos
5 DF Sweden SWE Alexander Milošević
6 DF Kosovo KVX Jetmir Haliti
7 MF Sweden SWE Sebastian Larsson (vice-captain)
8 MF Sweden SWE Bilal Hussein
9 FW Argentina ARG Nicolás Stefanelli
10 MF Sweden SWE Nabil Bahoui
11 FW Sweden SWE Stefan Silva
14 DF Sweden SWE Lucas Forsberg
15 GK Sweden SWE Kristoffer Nordfeldt
17 MF Ghana GHA Ebenezer Ofori
19 MF Finland FIN Saku Ylätupa
20 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Zachary Elbouzedi
21 FW Serbia SRB Bojan Radulović
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF Sweden SWE Filip Rogić
23 GK Serbia SRB Budimir Janošević
24 MF Sweden SWE Jesper Ceesay
25 DF Kenya KEN Eric Ouma
26 MF Sweden SWE Yasin Ayari
28 DF Sweden SWE Rasmus Bonde
31 GK Denmark DEN Jakob Haugaard
32 MF Sweden SWE Tom Strannegård
33 DF Sweden SWE Mikael Lustig
34 FW Sweden SWE Erik Ring
46 MF Sweden SWE Amar Ahmed Fatah
— FW Kenya KEN Henry Meja

Retired numbers[]

1 – Fans of the club[11]

Out on loan[]

As of 11 August 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Lebanon LBN Felix Michel (to AFC Eskilstuna until 31 December 2021)
16 DF Finland FIN Robin Tihi (to AFC Eskilstuna until 31 December 2021)
No. Pos. Nation Player
35 GK Sweden SWE Samuel Brolin (to Mjällby AIF until 31 December 2021)

Notable past players[]

Main article: Notable past AIK Fotboll players

Non-playing personnel[]

Backroom staff[]

Position Name
Managing director Sweden Björn Wesström
Assistant managing director Sweden Håkan Strandlund
Director of sports Sweden Henrik Jurelius
Head scout Sweden Tobias Ackerman

Coaching staff[]

Position Staff
Head coach Sweden Bartosz Grzelak
Assistant coach Sweden Andreas Janmyr
Assistant coach Republic of Ireland Sean O'Shea
Goalkeeping coach Canada Kyriakos Stamatopoulos
Fitness coach England Michael Lawson

Medical staff[]

Position Staff
Physiotherapist Sweden Stefan Tanda
Naprapath Sweden Luis Oyarzo

Other[]

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

Coaching history[]

  • England Fred Spiksley (1911)
  • Austria Ferdinand Humenberger (1930–32)
  • England Jimmy Elliott (1932–34)
  • Sweden Per Kaufeldt (1934–40)
  • Czechoslovakia Václav Simon (1940–44)
  • HungarySweden Istvan Wampetits (1944–48)
  • England George Raynor (1 July 1948 – 30 June 1952)
  • Sweden Per Kaufeldt (1951–56)
  • Sweden Henry Carlsson (1956–58)
  • England Frank Soo (1958)
  • Sweden Erik "Lillis" Persson (1959)
  • Hungary Lajos Szendrödi (1960–61)
  • Sweden Hilding "Moggli" Gustafsson (1962–64)
  • Sweden Henry Carlsson (1965–66)
  • Sweden Ingemar Ingevik (1967–68)
  • Sweden Torsten Lindberg (1 Jan, 1969 – 31 Dec, 1970)
  • Sweden Jens Lindblom (1971–74)
  • England Keith Spurgeon (1 Jan, 1975 – 31 Dec, 1975)
  • Sweden Kurt Liander (1975)
  • Sweden Lars-Oscar Nilsson (1976)
  • Sweden Gunnar Nordahl (1977–78)
  • Sweden Olavus Olsson (1978 – Dec 78)
  • Sweden Jens Lindblom (1979)
  • Sweden Bo Petersson (1979–80)
  • Sweden Rolf Zetterlund (1 Jan, 1981 – 31 Dec, 1986)
  • Sweden Göran Åberg (1987)
  • Sweden Nisse Andersson (1 July 1987–87)
  • Sweden Sanny Åslund (1988–90)
  • Sweden Tommy Söderberg (1991–93)
  • Sweden Hans Backe (1 Jan, 1994 – 30 June 1995)
  • Sweden Erik Hamrén (1 Jan, 1995 – 31 Dec, 1997)
  • Scotland Stuart Baxter (1 Jan, 1998 – Dec 00)
  • Sweden Olle Nordin (2001–02)
  • Sweden Peter Larsson (2002)
  • Czech Republic Dušan Uhrin (1 July 2002 – 31 Oct, 2002)
  • England Richard Money (1 Jan, 2003 – 19 April 2004)
  • Sweden Patrick Englund (2004)
  • Sweden Rikard Norling (Jan 2005 – Nov 2008)
  • Sweden Mikael Stahre (1 Jan, 2009 – 24 April 2010)
  • Sweden Björn Wesström (interim) (26 April 2010 – 22 June 2010)
  • Scotland Alex Miller (22 June 2010 – 10 Nov, 2010)
  • Sweden Andreas Alm (1 Jan, 2011 – 13 May 2016)
  • Sweden Rikard Norling (13 May 2016 – 27 July 2020)
  • PolandSweden Bartosz Grzelak (31 July 2020 – present)

Honours[]

League[]

Cups[]

International[]

AIK in Europe[]

European games[]

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Agg. Notes
1964–65 International Football Cup Group C2 France Angers 4–1 1–3 Placed 2nd
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sarajevo 2–0 0–2
Czechoslovakia Slovnaft Bratislava 3–2 1–7
1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round Belgium Bruxelles 0–0 3–1 3–1
Second round Switzerland Servette 2–1 1–4 3–5
1966–67 International Football Cup Group B3 East Germany Carl Zeiss Jena 0–0 1–4 Placed 4th
West Germany Eintracht Braunschweig 3–1 0–1
Poland Górnik Zabrze 1–1 2–3
1967 International Football Cup Group B6 Denmark AGF 1–0 2–1 Placed 3rd
East Germany Dynamo Dresden 1–4 2–1
Czechoslovakia Košice 1–1 0–4
1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round Norway Skeid 2–1 1–1 3–2
Second round West Germany Hannover 96 4–2 2–5 6–7
1970 International Football Cup Group B3 Switzerland Lausanne Sports 1–1 2–2 Placed 3rd
France Marseille 2–2 2–6
Poland Zagłębie Sosnowiec 2–1 1–2
1973 International Football Cup Group 2 West Germany Duisburg 3–1 1–1 Placed 3rd
Netherlands PSV 0–1 0–3
Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava 1–1 0–0
1973–74 UEFA Cup First round Denmark B 1903 1–1 1–2 2–3
1974 International Football Cup Group 6 Austria Linz 3–2 1–6 Placed 4th
Czechoslovakia Spartak Trnava 0–1 1–2
Poland Wisła Kraków 0–3 0–1
1975 International Football Cup Group 5 West Germany Tennis Borussia Berlin 2–3 3–1 Placed 4th
Poland Polonia Bytom 0–2 1–5
Czechoslovakia Zbrojovka Brno 1–2 0–2
1975–76 UEFA Cup First round Soviet Union Spartak Moscow 1–1 0–1 1–2
1976 International Football Cup Group 4 Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava 0–1 0–2 Placed 4th
West Germany Eintracht Braunschweig 1–3 1–2
Austria Tirol Innsbruck 3–3 1–3
1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup First round Turkey Galatasaray 1–2 1–1 2–3
1984 International Football Cup Group 5 Poland Górnik Zabrze 2–3 0–1 Placed 1st
East Germany Magdeburg 2–0 2–0
West Germany Nürnberg 8–2 2–1
1984–85 UEFA Cup First round Scotland Dundee United 1–0 0–3 1–3
1985 International Football Cup Group 4 Czechoslovakia Bohemians Praha 2–1 1–1 Placed 1st
Switzerland St. Gallen 0–1 6–1
Hungary Videoton 3–0 0–1
1985–86 European Cup Winners' Cup First round Luxembourg Red Boys Differdange 8–0 5–0 13–0
Second round Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague 2–2 0–1 2–3
1987 International Football Cup Group 6 Poland Lech Poznań 4–1 0–0 Placed 1st
Denmark Lyngby 3–1 2–0
Czechoslovakia Plastika Nitra 0–0 0–1
1987–88 UEFA Cup First round Czechoslovakia Vítkovice 0–2 1–1 1–3
1993–94 UEFA Champions League First round Czech Republic Sparta Prague 1–0 0–2 1–2
1994 International Football Cup Group 3 Germany Bayer Leverkusen 3–2 Placed 1st
Switzerland Lausanne Sports 2–1
Netherlands Sparta Rotterdam 2–2
Austria Tirol Innsbruck 2–0
1994–95 UEFA Cup Prel. round Lithuania Mažeikiai 2–0 2–0 4–0
First round Czech Republic Slavia Prague 0–0 2–2 2–2 Away goal
Second round Italy Parma 0–1 0–2 0–3
1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round Iceland KR 1–1 1–0 2–1
Second round France Nîmes Olympique 0–1 3–1 3–2
Quarter-final Spain Barcelona 1–1 1–3 2–4
1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round Slovenia Primorje 0–1 1–1 1–2
1999–00 UEFA Champions League Second round Belarus Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev 2–0 1–0 3–0
Third round Greece AEK Athens 1–0 0–0 1–0
Group B England Arsenal 2–3 1–3 Placed 4th
Spain Barcelona 1–2 0–5
Italy Fiorentina 0–0 0–3
2000–01 UEFA Cup Qual. round Belarus Gomel 1–0 2–0 3–0
First round Denmark Herfølge 0–1 1–1 1–2
2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round Wales Carmarthen Town 3–0 0–0 3–0
Second round Denmark OB 2–0 2–2 4–2
Third round France Troyes 1–2 1–2 2–4
2002–03 UEFA Cup Qual. round Iceland ÍBV 2–0 3–1 5–1
First round Turkey Fenerbahçe 3–3 1–3 4–6
2003–04 UEFA Cup Qual. round Iceland Fylkir 1–0 0–0 1–0
First round Spain Valencia 0–1 0–1 0–2
2007–08 UEFA Cup First qual. round Northern Ireland Glentoran 4–0 5–0 9–0
Second qual. round Latvia Liepājas Metalurgs 2–0 2–3 4–3
First round Israel Hapoel Tel Aviv 0–1 0–0 0–1
2010–11 UEFA Champions League Second qual. round Luxembourg Jeunesse Esch 1–0 0–0 1–0
Third qual. round Norway Rosenborg 0–1 0–3 0–4
2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round Bulgaria Levski Sofia 0–0 1–2 1–2
2012–13 UEFA Europa League Second qual. round Iceland FH 1–1 1–0 2–1
Third qual. round Poland Lech Poznań 3–0 0–1 3–1
Play-off round Russia CSKA 0–1 2–0 2–1
Group F Ukraine Dnipro 2–3 0–4 Placed 4th
Italy Napoli 1–2 0–4
Netherlands PSV 1–0 1–1
2014–15 UEFA Europa League Second qual. round Northern Ireland Linfield 2–0 0–1 2–1
Third qual. round Kazakhstan Astana 0–3 1–1 1–4
2015–16 UEFA Europa League First qual. round Finland VPS 4–0 2–2 6–2
Second qual. round Armenia Shirak 2–0 2–0 4–0
Third qual. round Greece Atromitos 1–3 0–1 1–4
2016–17 UEFA Europa League First qual. round Wales Bala Town 2–0 2–0 4–0
Second qual. round Gibraltar Europa FC 1–0 1–0 2–0
Third qual. round Greece Panathinaikos 0–1 0–2 0–3
2017–18 UEFA Europa League First qual. round Faroe Islands KÍ 0–0 5–0 5–0
Second qual. round Bosnia and Herzegovina Željezničar 2–0 0–0 2–0
Third qual. round Portugal Braga 1–1 1–2 (a.e.t.) 2–3
2018–19 UEFA Europa League First qual. round Republic of Ireland Shamrock Rovers 1–1 1–0 2–1
Second qual. round Denmark Nordsjælland 0–1 0–1 0–2
2019–20 UEFA Champions League First qual. round Armenia Ararat-Armenia 3–1 1–2 4–3
Second qual. round Slovenia Maribor 3−2 (a.e.t.) 1–2 4−4 (a)
UEFA Europa League Third qual. round Moldova Sheriff 1–1 2–1 3–2
Play-off round Scotland Celtic 1–4 0–2 1–6
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League Second qual. round

UEFA Team rank[]

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

Rank Team Points
247 Armenia FC Ararat-Armenia 5.000
248 Lithuania FK Riteriai 5.000
249 Malta Valletta F.C. 5.000
250 Belarus FC Dinamo Minsk 5.000
251 Sweden AIK 5.000
252 Norway Vålerenga Fotball 4.950
253 Norway Viking FK 4.950
254 Norway FK Haugesund 4.950
255 Norway SK Brann 4.950

As of 28 November 2021.[1]

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[]

  1. ^ "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Stockholms Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Åbros sista år som huvudsponsor – skänker platsen på tröjan" (in Swedish).
  3. ^ "AIK Fotboll inleder nytt samarbete med Nike från 2018" (in Swedish).
  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.
  6. ^ "AIK Fotboll". Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  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. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Truppen" (in Swedish). AIK. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  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. ^ "International Tournaments (Paris) 1904-1935".
  14. ^ "11th Edition of Community Shield to Open Inaugural Singapore Premier League Season". 27 March 2018.

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