From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Gabriel Johnson is the division’s leading scorer
5 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Kongsvinger have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Marked 8.13 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Kongsvinger have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Hødd
Elscha Furaha was marked 7.67 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jul 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ranheim, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jul 2028
Espanyol come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bryne did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Jul 2028
Only the photograph left for Adrian Rogulj
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrian Rogulj will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Raufoss the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Jul 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and HB Køge waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mjondalen is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
2 assists, 7.71, and a Ranheim player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Kongsvinger man
Gabriel Johnson averaged 8.13 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
A productive month at Ranheim — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
A productive month at Sogndal — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2028
5 in 4 for Ranheim. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
The month closes with Elscha Furaha out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Hødd have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Elscha Furaha is the division's player of the month — 7.80
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Hødd man on 7.80 with 8 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Elscha Furaha is the month's best young player — 7.80
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.80 over the month and 8 goal contributions, from a Hødd player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jun 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Best marks in the division for Sean Nilsen-Modebe — 7.81
7.81 on average across 4 matches for Hødd. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 Jun 2028
Only the photograph left for Tor Solvoll
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tor Solvoll will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ranheim the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
A productive month at Kongsvinger — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Sogndal leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
2 in 4 for Hødd. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Hødd, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2028
Jacob Storevik makes the team of the month — 6.94
Eleven names, chosen against everybody in the division who plays where they play. The Raufoss man is one of them on 6.94 from 4 matches, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to argue with.
Market1 Jun 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Isak Skotheim has his answer from Kongsvinger; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Scoring charts1 May 2028
The month closes with Oliver Hagen out in front — 2 goals in 4 games, and Åsane have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Marked 7.51 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Åsane have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Åsane
Oliver Hagen was marked 7.51 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 May 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Nobody made more than Aron Sasu this month
2 assists, 7.15, and a Egersund player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Åsane is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Best marks in the division for Jonas Selnæs — 7.56
7.56 on average across 4 matches for Raufoss. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 May 2028
The deal that would have taken Tor Erik Larsen to Raufoss has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Aalesund with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Ivan Djantou up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Aalesund — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Hødd leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
2 in 4 for Raufoss. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Daniel Job up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Skeid — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Market1 Apr 2028
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market1 Apr 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Aalesund people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Apr 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sandefjord, and it is not being withdrawn.
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Market1 Mar 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at IK Start, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Mar 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Mar 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ranheim have lost him in all but the paperwork.
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Market1 Feb 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2028
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Hødd has been clear about where Sondre Fosnæss Hanssen stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market1 Feb 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sandefjord, another week without a signature from Sander Risan Mørk.
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Market1 Jan 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jan 2028
David Lopes has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hødd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Jan 2028
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
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Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 1 appearances for BK Hacken.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Edvard Pettersen is the month's best young player — 7.63
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.63 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Sandefjord player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bryne can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Robin Hermanstad leads the division for assists — 8.01
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Moss player marked 8.01, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Dec 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sogndal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Best marks in the division for Andreas Hellum — 7.90
7.90 on average across 2 matches for Egersund. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
2 in 1 for KFUM Oslo. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
A productive month at Sandefjord — 1 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Jesper Eikrem up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Brann — 1 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
A place in the eleven for Frank Stople
7.44 over 2 games. Nobody frames a team-of-the-month selection and everybody who has been in one remembers the month they were.
Market1 Dec 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mathias Kristensen has his answer from Aalesund; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Sandefjord.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Marked 8.24 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Haugesund have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
8.36 across the month and 5 goal contributions from a Sandefjord player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Nov 2027
Only the photograph left for William Sell
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. William Sell will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lyn the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Nov 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sogndal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Nobody made more than Elias Myrlid this month
3 assists, 7.72, and a Haugesund player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Sandefjord man
Daniel Johan Skaarud averaged 8.36 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
4 goals in 4 appearances for Haugesund, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
3 in 4 for Odd. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
2 goals in 4 appearances for Haugesund leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
3 in 4 for Ranheim. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Market1 Nov 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kristoffer Steinset has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Raufoss.
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 2 appearances for Haugesund.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Marked 8.02 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Ranheim have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
7.67 across the month and 3 goal contributions from a Lyn player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Oct 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Skeid, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Oct 2027
Only the photograph left for Kasper Skaanes
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kasper Skaanes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sogndal the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
3 assists, 8.02, and a Ranheim player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Duarte Moreira is the division's best-marked player — 8.63
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.63 across 2 matches for Haugesund.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
3 goals in 3 appearances for Stabaek, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
3 goals in 3 appearances for Lyn leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
2 in 3 for Moss. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
2 in 3 for Hødd. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Market1 Oct 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Moss.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Everybody in the division was measured and a Moss man came out on top: 8.07 across the month and 4 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
7.58 across the month and 3 goal contributions from a Åsane player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sandefjord is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Sep 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Tromso moved on, Evangelos Patoulidis reports back to Sandefjord, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
The division’s top provider is Sondre Beite — 7.76
2 assists across the month from a Hødd player marked 7.76. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
8.07 on average across 4 matches for Moss. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
3 in 4 for Haugesund. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Skeid, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
3 in 4 for Lyn. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
4 goals in 5 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Moss have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Marked 7.75 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Moss have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Young player of the month: Jesper Eikrem — 7.34
7.34 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Moss player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what IK Start can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Aalesund people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
3 assists, 7.46, and a Sandefjord player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Eirik Åsvestad
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eirik Åsvestad will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Raufoss the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
7.90 on average across 4 matches for Sandefjord. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
2 goals in 5 appearances for Haugesund, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
3 goals in 5 appearances for Sogndal leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Ivan Djantou up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Aalesund — 2 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.