Tvillingderbyt


Tvillingderbyt is a football fixture in the capital Stockholm, Sweden, between cross-town rivals AIK Stockholm and Djurgårdens IF. Both clubs were founded in Stockholm in 1891, AIK was first with Djurgårdens IF following three weeks later, but they started playing football in 1896 and 1899 respectively.

History

The Stockholm sports clubs AIK and Djurgårdens IF were both founded in 1891 as general sports clubs. AIK was founded the 15th of February 1891 in the city centre of Stockholm on Biblioteksgatan 8. Djurgårdens IF was founded the 12th of March on the eastern island Djurgården in Stockholm.
AIK started playing football in 1896, while Djurgårdens IF Fotboll started in 1899. the first football match between them was played on 16 July 1899 at Svea Lifgardes IP and resulted in a 2–1 AIK win.
When Jesper Jansson left AIK for Djurgården before the 1996 season, he was threatened and the door of his apartment was vandalised by Firman Boys, a group connected to AIK. When former AIK player Anders Limpar signed for Djurgården in 2000, his restaurant in Stockholm was vandalised by the same group.
An attendance of 45,367 people watched a 2019 match, breaking an earlier record from 1975. The May 2023 match was interrupted after supporters on the AIK section had thrown flares onto the pitch. Chat messages showed that the action was planned by people on the section in the case of a possible AIK loss.

Rivalry culture

The fixture between AIK and Djurgården is generally considered to be the most important derby in Sweden. It's a true arch rivalry between Stockholm's two most successful clubs, with AIK having won a total of twelve Swedish championship titles and 8 Svenska Cupen titles, while Djurgården has won twelve national titles and five cup titles.
Both clubs were founded in 1891, just three weeks apart. Therefore, the derby is known as the Tvillingderbyt. This fixture is considered the fiercest rivalry in Scandinavia. Since 1891, 231 fixtures have been contested in all competitions with 87 AIK wins and 82 Djurgården wins.
Both clubs have a large number of fans throughout Stockholm. There is somewhat of a geographical divide; Djurgården consider the affluent Östermalm district, the eastern part of Stockholm City Centre, their heartland, with strong support along the northern red line of the metro and the Roslagen trainline.
AIK has a strong concentration of fans in the northern and western part of the Stockholm urban area, roughly along the blue line and western-going green line of the Metro. Mixed Djurgårdens IF and AIK supporters can also be found all-round in Stockholm city and the southwestern part of Stockholms urban area and the Stockholm archipelago. Both clubs also maintain a cross-town rivalry with Hammarby IF, whose stronghold is the Södermalm district, the southern part of the city centre.
The AIK–Djurgården rivalry is also found in ice hockey which further strengthens the tension between both sets of fans and makes the rivalry somewhat unique for Swedish sports. They are the only two clubs in Sweden who have won more than one championship in both football and ice hockey – AIK have won twelve football titles and seven ice hockey titles; Djurgården have won twelve in football and 16 in ice hockey.
The clubs have also met in other sports: the bandy teams have played the Saint Stephen's Day bandy match, e.g. in 2006; The first basketball derby played in 2016, a Division 2 match in Solnahallen.

Records

Biggest wins (5+ goals)

MarginResultDateEvent
6AIK – Djurgårdens IF 0–61908Stockholmsserien 1
6Djurgårdens IF – AIK 0–62 June 1915Svenska Serien
5AIK – Djurgårdens IF 5–023 May 1947Allsvenskan
5AIK – Djurgårdens IF 6–13 July 1949Svenska Cupen
5AIK – Djurgårdens IF 5–02 September 1976Allsvenskan

Most appearances

RankPlayerNationalityClubLeagueCupTotal
1Sven LindmanDjurgården25025
2Krister NordinDjurgården/AIK21223
3Tommy BerggrenDjurgården19019
4Björn AlkebyDjurgården18018
4Daniel TjernströmAIK16218
4Nils-Eric JohanssonAIK16016
6Håkan StenbäckDjurgården15015
6Gary SundgrenAIK14115
9Martin ÅslundDjurgården/AIK11314
9Göran GöranssonAIK12214
9Gösta NilssonAIK14014
12Andreas JohanssonDjurgården11213
12Mats RubarthAIK11213
12Kjell SamuelssonDjurgården13013
12Daniel SjölundDjurgården12113
12Pa Dembo TourayDjurgården12113

Goalscorers

Top scorers

RankPlayerNationalityClubLeagueCupTotal
1Yngve LebackAIK707
2Leif SkiöldAIK/Djurgården505
3Claes CronqvistDjurgården314
3Sven DahlkvistAIK404
3Mikael MartinssonDjurgården404
3Hans NilssonDjurgården404
3Ingvar OlssonAIK404
3Pascal SimpsonAIK404
3Jan-Erik SjöbergDjurgården404
3Håkan StenbäckDjurgården404

Clean sheets

Since 28 September 2009
RankPlayerNationalityClubLeagueCupTotal
1Oscar LinnérAIK404
2Patrik CarlgrenAIK303
3Daniel ÖrlundAIK202
3Ivan TurinaAIK202
3Daniel ÖrlundAIK202
3Pa Dembo TourayDjurgården202
4Kyriakos StamatopoulosAIK101
4Anders IsakssonDjurgården011

Shared player history

Transfers

Played for both clubs

Played for one club, managed the other

Managed both clubs

1 Only competitive matches are counted.