AIK Fotboll
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| Full name | Allmänna Idrottsklubben |
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| Nickname(s) | Gnaget |
| Founded | 15 February 1891 1896 (football department) |
| Ground | Friends Arena, Solna |
| Capacity | 50,653 |
| Chairman | Per Bystedt |
| Head coach | Rikard Norling |
| League | Allsvenskan |
| 2016 | Allsvenskan, 2nd |
| Website | Club home page |
AIK Fotboll (: ), more commonly known simply as AIK (Swedish pronunciation: [²ɑː.i:.ˌkɔː]), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (literally "The Public Athletics Club"), is a Swedish football club based at the largest football stadium in the Nordic countries, Friends Arena, located in Solna, a municipality in the bordering .
Competing in Sweden's first tier, Allsvenskan, the club was formed in 1891 in and the football department was formed in 1896. League champions eleven times, winning their latest championship title in 2009, AIK are currently third in the all-time Allsvenskan table. The club holds the record for having played the most seasons in the Swedish top flight. AIK is the club that has finished top three in Allsvenskan the most times (nine) in the current century.
AIK is the only side from the 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 the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League group stage.
The club is affiliated with the .
Founded in 1891 by Isidor Behrens in Stockholm, at the downtown address of Biblioteksgatan 8, the club's full name, "Allmänna Idrottsklubben", translates to "The General Sports Club" or "The Public Sports Club". The name was chosen to reflect that the club was open for everyone, and also that athletics, at the time called "allmän idrott" in Swedish, was considered the club's main sport.
Putting football into practice in 1896, AIK were runners-up in the championship only two years later, in 1898. AIK won its first Swedish championship title in 1900, beating Örgryte IS in the final. In 1901, AIK won another title, after a walk-over win against Örgryte IS team II. At the turn of the century, Swedish league football was dominated by Örgryte, who won ten times between the years 1896 and 1909. However, in the period of 1898–1901 AIK won the championship twice and were runners-up three times. In 1899 the team faced Djurgårdens IF for the first time. Djurgården was founded in 1891, the same year as AIK, and therefore the games between these teames are commonly known as the tvillingderbyt (the twin derby), Djurgården is to this day AIK's main rival, and the games attracts huge crowds.
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