AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning the public or general sports club), and internationally commonly referred to as AIK Stockholm, is a Swedish professional football club from Stockholm, competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The club was founded in 1891 and the football department was established in 1896.
AIK's home ground is Nationalarenan, located in Solna, bordering Stockholm City Centre.
AIK commands one of the largest supporter bases in the Nordic countries, highlighted by setting an all-time Scandinavian record with an average home attendance of 30,024 spectators during the 2025 season. The club has also finished as Sweden's highest-attended team in a record 41 different seasons.
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). PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsor (chest)1975–77 AdidasNone1978–80 Puma1981 HummelEldorado (grocery brand)1982–84 UmbroBPA (technical installation)1985–88 NikeBPA or Första Sparbanken (banking company)1989–90 PumaFolksam (insurance company)1991Folksam or Kombilott (lottery)1992Folksam or Trippellott (lottery)1995–96Scandic (hotel chain)1997Hyundai (automaker)1998–2016 AdidasÅbro (brewery)2017Hjärt-Lungfonden (charity)Åbro2018–2022 NikeNotar (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.
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, 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 2025, AIK had an average attendance of 30,023, the biggest in Allsvenskan, and in Scandinavia, beating FC Köpenhamns record from 2022/2023. 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 Scandinavia. 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
Retired numbers
– Supporters of the club
Out on loan
Notable past players
Non-playing personnel
Backroom staff Position NameManaging Director Fredrik SöderbergFinance Director Håkan StrandlundHead Of Strategy Jeremy SteeleTechnical Director Peter WennbergHead Of Scouting And Recruitment Miika Takkula
Coaching staff PositionStaffHead coach José RiveiroAssistant coach Nils Heingård Sergio AlmenaraGoalkeeping coach Kyriakos StamatopoulosFitness coach Michel Bellver Lukas Sinkunas
Medical staff PositionStaffPhysiotherapist Victor LybergNaprapath Christian Andersson Mattias Mawloudi
Other PositionStaffData analyst Paul Kaminiczny Tiago SantosEquipment manager Håkan SjöbergCo-ordinator Thomas ThudinSecurity manager Henrik Koch
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 December 1970) Jens Lindblom (1971–74) Keith Spurgeon (1 Jan 1975 – 31 December 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 December 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 December 1997) Stuart Baxter (1 Jan 1998 – Dec 2000) Olle Nordin (2001–02) Peter Larsson (2002) Dušan Uhrin (1 July 2002 – 31 October 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 November 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 – 8 November 2022) Andreas Brännström (8 November 2022 – 2 July 2023) Henning Berg (2 July 2023 – 14 June 2024) Henok Goitom (interim) (18 June 2024 – 16 July 2024) Mikkjal Thomassen (16 July 2024 – 4 January 2026) José Riveiro (16 January 2026 – )
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