The AC Oulu Sentinel
Match29 Aug 2026
AC Oulu refuse to lose, and Onni Tiihonen leads them
The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Onni Tiihonen was at the centre of it, KTP were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Onni Tiihonen takes the afternoon — 8.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Onni Tiihonen provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Miguel Santos keeps AC Oulu in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Julius Körkkö, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
Julius Körkkö has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AC Oulu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AC Oulu
Miguel Santos 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
AC Oulu get the job done against KTP
A 3‑2 win over KTP, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
AC Oulu beat the market to Lucas Lingman from HJK
HJK will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lucas Lingman has pre-agreed a move to AC Oulu, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Elias Kallio
At 22 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
- Match AC Oulu keep winning on the road
- Squad Too much change too quickly at AC Oulu
- Squad Joni Sparv signs a new deal