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AIK Fotboll

AIK Fotboll

Swedish association football club

This article is about AIK's men's football department. For other departments of the club, see AIK (disambiguation). For women's football, see AIK Fotboll (women).

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

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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

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: 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).

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  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]

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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,[6] 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[7][8] In 2007 AIK had an average attendance of over 20,000. AIK have had the highest average attendance 41 times,[9] more than any other club in Sweden. AIK finished the 2013 season with an average attendance of 18,900, the highest number in Scandinavia.[10] 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.[11]

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 27 March 2024[12]

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

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Retired numbers

1 – Supporters of the club[13]

Out on loan

As of 20 March 2024

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

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Notable past players

Main article: Notable past AIK Fotboll players

Non-playing personnel

Backroom staff

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Coaching staff

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Medical staff

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Other

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Coaching history

Honours

League

Cups

Invitational

AIK in Europe

European games

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UEFA Team rank

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

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As of 2 January 2024. Club coefficients | UEFA Coefficients

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.[14]

References

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    "AIK Fotboll inleder nytt samarbete med Nike från 2018" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
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    "Notar ny huvudsamarbetspartner till AIK Fotboll". 1 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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    "Truecaller ny officiell huvudpartner till AIK Fotboll – vill göra skillnad i samhället". 16 June 2022. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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    "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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    "Allsvensk statistik – svenskfotboll.se". Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
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    "Publiksnitt år för år". Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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    "Allsvensk statistik – svenskfotboll.se". Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
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    "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.
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    "Truppen" (in Swedish). AIK. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
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    "AIK Fotboll skänker tröja nummer 1 till publiken" (in Swedish). AIK Fotboll. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
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    "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.
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    García, Javier (2009). "International Tournaments (Paris) 1904–1935: Tournoi de Pentecôte de Paris 1921". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
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