AIK:s new goal: Top 100 in Europe

Europarankningen based on the clubs ' efforts in the european cups in the last five years.

has been modest, to qualify for the Europa League is not enough far, if you want to climb on the ranking.

Now the lace to the target image.

" We'll deliver on another level. To win the CHAMPIONSHIP is important, but it does not make much of a difference on just the ranking, but it is of course about Europe, says the coach Rikard Norling.

Danish [FC Copenhagen is in place 45 in the Uefa ranking and Malmö FF, as Norling trained when the club took the national CHAMPIONSHIP in 2013, on the spot 72.

Norling has not a hundred tabs on AIK:s placement on the Europalistan.

We are well somewhere on the 197-th place right now and that says a lot about the setting the requirements specification, on me, on the players, and many others.

" You have to start somewhere, 185:a, so we can aim at the top ten also but there must be some rhyme or reason. It is a big enough step for AIK to be in the top 100, " says Norling.

which team tops the ranking miss Norling not.

– There must be Real Madrid to win the Champions League three years out of four, so one should of course be at the top.

to have the chance to play matches in the european cups must Swedish law, among the three best in the premiere league or win the cup.

try to win the championship. It, Malmö has done a few years in a row and it has helped them to come to the qualifications for the Champions League and games in Europe. To come out in Europe, you have to come at least top three in the premier league, there is seldom enough in AIK. Regardless there is a basis or not, there will always be a kravbild that we shall win the SM-gold.

As the reigning champion increases the pressure on the team and Norling aware of the requirements.

– the Level of what is expected of us, is a snap compared to what it was last year. I am glad that AIK have taken that kind of step and try to make sense of what we're after.

AIK celebrating the team gold in 2018. Photo: Patric Soderstrom/TT

it is not just the coaches and players to do their part.

– In a Europaspel you can be successful. But you should establish itself as a club in the top 100 so it means the business improvements and changes that AIK must go through in order to succeed year after year. We need to sharpen up on very many things. It is important that you are clear in rollfördelningarna and to those who have responsibility for each role makes it on the high level that is required so that it corresponds to and can meet the expectations and requirements.

Norling know what he has to do.

simply training and matchverksamheten where I am going to get as much performance as possible. I try to hold myself to, then there are others with other tasks and it is also good to link with them, which I also believe we do, then there is fertile ground for we as a whole get very large effect.

as sporting director Björn Wesström and chefsscouten Tobias Ackerman to do that the club should reach the top 100 to Norling is not an opinion.

– It is not my task to comment on, it is Wesströms task to comment on what he intends to do. I shall tell him what he should do or review what he has done.

But Norling admits that he is happy to see really good players come to the AIK.

" the Biggest reason we were successful last year was that we had good enough players to cater to and meet the expectations which were, to win the SM-gold. Now I was there and reviewed in all cases, but so it is, " says Norling with a smile.

playing for AIK against Gif Sundsvall, where Norling scored his first years as a surgical nurse trainer, at the stockholm city centre. On Monday, leaving the team on a two-week long training camp in Dubai.

Chinedu Obasi, who this week came back to AIK on a one-year contract, are not in place, but connects to the camp in Dubai.