The Haugesund Herald
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Eirik Viland Andersen was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match8 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Stabaek as Haugesund pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Haugesund scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sarpsborg 08 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Haugesund did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ismaël Seoné scores twice — 8.33
Two goals and a mark of 8.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pyry Hannola signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pyry Hannola and Haugesund agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Haugesund walk away from Vetle Auklend
$370.0K was the most the club would pay and Viking were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Haugesund
Sory Diarra and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
Haugesund find a way past Stabaek
Stabaek made Haugesund work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Ismaël Seoné
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Thomas Ryerson steps up from the Haugesund academy
- Market Haugesund promote Patrick Sorloth from within
- Market Haugesund promote Jens Thorsby from within