Emil Jansson

Right Forward - IFK Goteborg
31 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Emil Jansson

52 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

IFK Goteborg up to position 3

33 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nino Žugelj

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at IFK Goteborg

Max Fenger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Nino Žugelj falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Freddie Lantz moves on

Orebro pay $29.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

IFK Goteborg caught on 90 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Falkenberg scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Squad

Axel Sjöström Falk signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Axel Sjöström Falk commits to IFK Goteborg for another 3 years.

Player ratings

Wrong net for Emil Jansson

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. IFK Goteborg will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

Player ratings

Arbnor Mucolli was the difference for IFK Goteborg

Marked 7.46. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

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41 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

IFK Goteborg march on in the cup

GIF Sundsvall are out and IFK Goteborg go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Both of them Adam Bergmark Wiberg's — 8.16

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Emil Jansson beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at IFK Goteborg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Will Smallbone is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces

One of their own: Sebastian Clemmensen

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

IFK Goteborg make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Tempers go at IFK Goteborg

Yannick Geiger was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Nino Žugelj

A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

IFK Goteborg share the spoils with AIK

A 1‑1 draw with AIK leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

37 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nino Žugelj was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 51. 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.

Match

Nobody wants to play IFK Goteborg right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Kristoffer Zachariassen rejects the move

IFK Goteborg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ferencvaros, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at IFK Goteborg

Will Smallbone 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Abderahmane Soussi

IFK Goteborg asked and Al Dhafra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Adam Bergmark Wiberg sends IFK Goteborg past Falkenberg

It finished 1‑0, and it was Adam Bergmark Wiberg’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to IFK Goteborg.

Squad

A row about effort at IFK Goteborg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Ottosson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Adam Bergmark Wiberg was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of August Erlingmark

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

36 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Elis Bishesari is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Boardroom

IFK Goteborg close the window on a squad of their own making

6 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Boardroom

A new deal for Oscar Tankovic

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Cristian Arango rejects the move

IFK Goteborg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at San Jose Earthquakes, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Match

Nobody wants to play IFK Goteborg right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Max Fenger in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IFK Goteborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at IFK Goteborg

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets

IFK Goteborg rebuffed over Jonathan Levi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ferencvaros have kept their man, and IFK Goteborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

IFK Goteborg see off Gefle

Three points for IFK Goteborg, 2‑0 the final word against Gefle in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief