Facts: Sixten Gustafsson
Born: February 5, 2007.
Homeland: Sweden.
Former clubs: AIK U.
Position: Forward.
Preferred foot: Right.
Jersey number: 16.
Sixten Gustafsson was born on Monday, February 5, 2007 and began playing football as a five-year-old in the parent club, AIK. In the black and yellow team, he has made it from the boys’ school, via the academy team and now all the way up to the men’s team. Through his career in AIK Football’s youth ranks, the young forward has proven to be a goal-dangerous player. During the 2023 season, Sixten made the match for both the club’s P16 and P17 teams. There were a total of 21 competitive matches for P16 where he accounted for 35 goals, as well as ten matches in the P17 Allsvenskan with a goal score of eleven goals scored. The On October 29, 2023, Sixten participated and won in the SC final of the P16 Allsvenskan when they won against IF Brommapojkarna with 4–2. After the opponents’ early lead goal, Sixten equalized the match with a header over the goalkeeper after the cross from teammate Robel Yonas. 20 minutes later he was there again and resolutely nodded AIK into the lead.
The following season there was not an identical explosion of goals, but Sixten still managed to score an impressive 20 goals in 18 games. On March 9, 2024, Sixten achieved a huge feat in a league cup match against IK Brage at Skytteholms IP when he put the ball in the net ten times. Sixten and AIK dominated the match and when the final whistle blew it was clear that Gnaget had won 15-0. Later in the season, unfortunately, misfortune struck as the young forward suffered a serious injury that kept him out until mid-2025.
Once he was back in full swing, the goals started rolling in again. In 2025, Sixten accounted for four goals in ten matches in the P19 Allsvenskan, of which 2 goals in an away derby against Hammarby that ended with a 3–2 win for AIK. His progress in the youth ranks has echoed up to the men’s team, and in the fall of 2025 he was increasingly used in training for AIK’s men’s team.
The 18-year-old was seen for the first time in the A-team squad when he was on the bench during the away win against IF Elfsborg in Allsvenskan 2025 – a match that AIK won by a whopping 3-0 after two goals by Johan Hove and one by Erik Flataker.
