Allmänna Idrottsklubben (English: the Public Sports Club), usually referred to as just AIK and internationally known as AIK Stockholm, is a professional sports club from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1891, at the downtown address of Biblioteksgatan 8 in the district of Norrmalm, the club is the largest in Scandinavia. The club's achievements include Swedish championship titles in a slew of sports: football, ice hockey, floorball, bandy, handball, bowling, badminton, athletics, and many other sports, as well as the Wimbledon Championships and French Open in tennis (through Sven Davidson, Lennar
Key facts
- Sports team.name
- AIK
- Sports team.logo_size
- 165px
- Sports team.caption
- The crest of AIK
- Sports team.full_name
- Allmänna Idrottsklubben
- Sports team.sport
- association football, bandy, handball, ice hockey, and others
- Sports team.city
- Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sports team.colors
- Black and Yellow
- Sports team.president
- Cecilia Wahlman (interim)
- Sports team.nicknames
- Gnaget
- Sports team.website
- http://aik.se
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- Founding
- Colours and badge
- Departments
- American football
- Athletics
- Bandy
- Basketball
- Boules
- Bowling
- Floorball
- Football
- Golf
- Handball
- Ice hockey
- Wrestling
- Defunct departments
- Media
- Support
- Rivalries
- References
- External links
Allmänna Idrottsklubben (English: the Public Sports Club), usually referred to as just AIK and internationally known as AIK Stockholm, is a professional sports club from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1891, at the downtown address of Biblioteksgatan 8 in the district of Norrmalm, the club is the largest in Scandinavia. The club's achievements include Swedish championship titles in a slew of sports: football, ice hockey, floorball, bandy, handball, bowling, badminton, athletics, and many other sports, as well as the Wimbledon Championships and French Open in tennis (through Sven Davidson, Lennart Bergelin, and Ulf Schmidt).
==Founding== The idea to start an athletic association began when the brothers Isidor and Paul Behrens were taking a walk through Hantverkargatan, in central Stockholm. They were walking pretty fast; and noticed that there were two other youngsters behind them who also walked quickly. The strangers tried to walk past the Behrens, so they had to speed up to keep the lead; but the strangers did the same. Finally all of them started to run in what now looked like an improvised competition. When Isidor and Paul were far away from the unknown youngsters, Isidor said that they should start an athletic association and compete with others.