A teenager in the club pays 4,850 SEK per year, plus 3,500 SEK for the parent association fee, membership in Gnagarna and AIK Youth. In practice, it can amount to as much as 9,000 SEK per child – every year.
When you’re paying nearly 9,000 SEK per year for a child in AIK while seeing that young people in other clubs receive similar or better services for less than half the cost, it feels unfair – especially in a club that claims to stand for “equal value for all people” and has the ambition to be the club for all of northern Stockholm.
It’s not just unreasonable. It’s unacceptable. Unlike other clubs – like Hammarby, where it costs a maximum of 2,050 SEK for a 19-year-old – AIK has become a club where parents are being financially pressured. What is actually being done with the money? Does it go to youth activities, directly into the academy’s black hole, or to the A-team’s budget?
It smells like milking. Milking families with children. In a club that claims to stand for values and community.
This is not an elite team in the Champions League – we’re talking about children’s football. On artificial turf pitches in Solna.
This is not the soul of AIK. This is a betrayal of thousands of children and young people who just want to play football with their club’s crest on their chest. And a betrayal of all the parents who struggle so that their children can participate.
We demand:
- An independent review of AIK’s youth fees.
- Transparency about where every single krona goes.
- A stop to fees that exclude children.
AIK should not be a club for the rich. AIK should be for us. All of us. And our children.
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