From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Marius Lode
“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.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
30 starts and an average of 7.02. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Leo Väisänen called up by his countryA window away with the national side, and a shirt at BK Hacken that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Marius Lode The manager makes an example of Marius Lode
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Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
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.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 2-1 win over Malmo FF , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Marius Lode 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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
14 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Sivert Øverby 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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Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Ben Engdahl
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
No place for Marius Lode on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at BK Hacken pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match4 Sep 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Ben Engdahl The manager makes an example of Ben Engdahl
Market6 Sep 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marius Lode is not saying it is over“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 34 with 220 appearances behind him, and BK Hacken have to plan for both answers.
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Steady
Squad23 Aug 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Etrit Berisha knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match21 Aug 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Nikola Zečević 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mikkel Rygaard wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Mikkel Rygaard has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. BK Hacken know, and have known for weeks.
Market23 Aug 2027
The window shut and Marius Lode is still in the building
BK Hacken spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Upbeat
Match14 Aug 2027
Halmstad made BK Hacken work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Marius Lode 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
4 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market16 Aug 2027
Walter Naranjo is free to find somewhere else“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at BK Hacken has been clear about where Walter Naranjo stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Srđan Hrstić knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at BK Hacken , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
10 appearances at Stromsgodset and the goals keep coming. BK Hacken are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Etrit Berisha has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Etrit Berisha keeps the shirt for now, at BK Hacken 's convenience rather than his own.
Market16 Aug 2027
No fee and no drama: Lukáš Gothard has signed at BK Hacken , and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
20 starts and an average of 6.95. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. BK Hacken know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mikkel Rygaard commits to BK Hacken for another 2 years.
Match31 Jul 2027
0-2 to IFK Goteborg , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Aug 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.23 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
8 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Upbeat
Match19 Jul 2027
BK Hacken are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Harry Hilvenius has come up in conversations BK Hacken were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match17 Jul 2027
A 1-0 win over Atvidaberg , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Marius Lode 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adam Lundkvist has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at BK Hacken .
Market19 Jul 2027
Djurgarden are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. BK Hacken will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. BK Hacken lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Marokhy Ndione knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at BK Hacken , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Mikkel Rygaard unhappy with how he is being usedAsked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Mikkel Rygaard has let it be known that he does not like the way BK Hacken are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Etrit Berisha and BK Hacken agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match3 Jul 2027
Three points for BK Hacken , 1-0 the final word against Falkenberg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ben Engdahl 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.
Market5 Jul 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
3 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Srđan Hrstić finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. BK Hacken have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
5 appearances at Stromsgodset and the goals keep coming. BK Hacken are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Danilo Al-Saed keeps appearing in other people's back pages. BK Hacken say nothing, which says plenty.
Market5 Jul 2027
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what BK Hacken could get for him.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
A season average of 7.19 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. BK Hacken know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrian Svanbäck and BK Hacken agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match12 Jun 2027
IF Elfsborg made BK Hacken work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Leo Väisänen called up by his countryA window away with the national side, and a shirt at BK Hacken that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Adrian Svanbäck joins up with his country. BK Hacken lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Market14 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. BK Hacken know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
Milton Pereyra : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” BK Hacken have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match15 May 2027
No end in sight to BK Hacken 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at BK Hacken has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 May 2027
At 21, Jeremy Agbonifo is already the best thing here
An average of 7.02 in a first team he is several years too young for. BK Hacken have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ben Engdahl
“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.
Match15 May 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad17 May 2027
Gustav Lindgren 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
Market1 Mar 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 BK Hacken can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2027
VPS are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. BK Hacken will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Johan Hammar 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.