Marked for Warner Hahn
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Uneasy
Match19 Oct 2027
Hammarby do the business in Europe
2‑2. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Hammarby came through the finding-out well against Standard Liege.
Match19 Oct 2027
Hammarby throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Standard Liege the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Hammarby will enjoy reviewing.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Hammarby — 7.98
1 for Markus Karlsson, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Hammarby
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hampus Skoglund was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Victor Lind left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Victor Lind will call it something else in private.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Hammarby
Anton Weckström 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.
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Steady
Match16 Oct 2027
The derby belongs to Hammarby
1‑0 against AIK, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.
Match18 Oct 2027
First, on 59 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
The derby has a name on it: Nahir Besara
Score against anybody else and it is a goal. Score against them and it is a story with your name in it for a decade, and Hammarby supporters have already started telling it.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Nahir Besara is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.30 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Montader Madjed 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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Warner Hahn has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“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.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
The chances came and went for Victor Lind
7 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Uneasy
Match28 Sep 2027
0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nahir Besara and Hammarby agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Hampus Skoglund 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Hammarby cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Élohim Kaboré is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Hammarby will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Kweku Kekeli 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Oct 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hammarby, another week without a signature from Warner Hahn.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
16 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match14 Sep 2027
A chastening European night for Hammarby
0‑3 against Real Madrid. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.
Match20 Sep 2027
54 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A brace, and Élohim Kaboré takes the afternoon — 8.80
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Élohim Kaboré provided it, and the 8.80 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Montader Madjed and Hammarby agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 20, Élohim Kaboré is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Hammarby have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The step up is real for Sourou Koné
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match18 Sep 2027
Mjällby made Hammarby work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Warner Hahn gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Match13 Sep 2027
Hammarby are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 51 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Élohim Kaboré, 20, steals the show — 7.85
Marked 7.85 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Élohim Kaboré is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Kweku Kekeli gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kweku Kekeli has just signed for Hammarby, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Sep 2027
14 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match11 Sep 2027
Hammarby rescue it on 92 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. GAIS had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 2‑2 draw with GAIS leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Triumph
Match26 Jul 2027
The view from the top for Hammarby
40 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Match24 Jul 2027
Hammarby cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Age has not caught Nahir Besara yet — 8.37
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.37 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market26 Jul 2027
The name of Paulos Abraham has come up in conversations Hammarby were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market26 Jul 2027
The paperwork is done: Marius Söderbäck joins from Kalmar FF in a deal worth $720.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Moscow have kept their man, and Hammarby go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match24 Jul 2027
Three points for Hammarby, 2‑1 the final word against Malmo FF in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Warner Hahn gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Nahir Besara
11 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A one-man rearguard from Warner Hahn
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Jun 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Élohim Kaboré
“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.
Looking ahead14 Jun 2027
All roads lead to AIK
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Hammarby will be judged on one thing only.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Nahir Besara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market14 Jun 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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jakob Quaison chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Match15 May 2027
Chastening afternoon for Hammarby
A 0‑3 beating by IK Sirius was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market17 May 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.
Squad17 May 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market17 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hammarby they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Hammarby
Nahir Besara 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Warner Hahn gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Nobody left the Hammarby dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout17 May 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout17 May 2027
Nahir Besara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Match5 May 2027
Östersund ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad10 May 2027
A one-man rearguard from Warner Hahn
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Victor Lind at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hammarby.
Match8 May 2027
Hammarby rescue it on 88 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. BK Hacken had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom10 May 2027
Nobody left the Hammarby dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Match8 May 2027
It needed Victor Lind to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against BK Hacken, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout10 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jakob Quaison was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Hammarby dressing room was either.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.89, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrahima Fofana, and the manager let it.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hammarby, and 2 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Match10 Apr 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Malmo FF leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Élohim Kaboré has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market12 Apr 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hammarby, another week without a signature from Frederik Winther.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jakob Quaison after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Nahir Besara yet — 8.45
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.45 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Élohim Kaboré at 20 — 7.64
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Élohim Kaboré did not need any: 7.64, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market5 Apr 2027
Umeå FC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hammarby did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at Hammarby until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Match3 Apr 2027
Victor Lind among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Victor Lind on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Hammarby and Västerås SK.
Match3 Apr 2027
Three points for Hammarby, 4‑2 the final word against Västerås SK in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Hammarby
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
500 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Markus Karlsson commits to Hammarby for another 5 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Waylon Renecke, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Élohim Kaboré gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Élohim Kaboré is on it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Élohim Kaboré knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Élohim Kaboré trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Markus Karlsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hammarby say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexander Lundin
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Hammarby
Nahir Besara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Karlsson and Hammarby agree another 4 years.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Frederik Winther asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Alexander Lundin damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexander Lundin and Hammarby agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
When it matters, Victor Lind plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clock does Tesfaldet Tekie’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Hammarby could ask drops and the wages Tesfaldet Tekie can ask rise.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Hammarby, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Victor Lind talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Hammarby know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tesfaldet Tekie has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Hammarby that is a harder question to answer.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hammarby lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nahir Besara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tesfaldet Tekie trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Hammarby would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market30 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Frederik Winther’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
102 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hammarby lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match3 Oct 2026
Élohim Kaboré had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and AIK were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Élohim Kaboré, 19, steals the show — 7.92
Marked 7.92 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Nahir Besara yet — 8.06
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.06 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuel Ramos is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Warner Hahn gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match3 Oct 2026
Honours even between Hammarby and AIK
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Waylon Renecke is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
Malmo FF left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Jakob Quaison left the room before anybody could ask which.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
A test against the best for Hammarby
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against IFK Goteborg.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Frederik Winther trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against IFK Goteborg in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Hammarby, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nahir Besara 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Kolding IF are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Hammarby will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Élohim Kaboré
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Élohim Kaboré has come out of that comparison in the side, and Hammarby have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hammarby will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Montader Madjed has moved up it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Victor Lind’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Hammarby march on in the cup
Falkenberg are out and Hammarby go through, 2‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Degerfors will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Hammarby were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Hammarby and IK Sirius have settled on $2.5M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Paulos Abraham takes the afternoon — 8.63
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Paulos Abraham provided it, and the 8.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Warner Hahn decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Oscar Steinke Brånby, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07
A mark of 8.07 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Hammarby close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 5 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
IK Brage pay $190.0K, 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nahir Besara, 35, rolls back the years — 7.97
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Warner Hahn and Hammarby agree another 2 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Inter Turku have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Frank Junior Adjei. The answer from Hammarby has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Warner Hahn, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hammarby, another week without a signature from Tesfaldet Tekie.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with IF Elfsborg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Victor Lind asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.