Marked for Andreas Hoven
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Sep 2027
7 matches without a win for Stabaek
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Stabaek are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Håkon Evjen 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 Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Stabaek still without a manager
12 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Avallay 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kimi Løkkevik commits to Stabaek for another 4 years.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I watch every Stabaek game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aalesund runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
The afternoon belonged to Aleksa Matić
A mark of 7.70, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andreas Hoven, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Match1 May 2027
No end in sight to Stabaek's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stabaek has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad3 May 2027
“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.
Match1 May 2027
The goals have deserted Stabaek
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Stabaek can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad3 May 2027
Magnus Lankhof Dahlby 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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
The numbers do not look good at Stabaek
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad3 May 2027
Marius Lundemo 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.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I watch every Stabaek game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ilves runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match1 May 2027
Sarpsborg 08 left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jørgen Skjelvik: 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.” Stabaek have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Andreas Hoven
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andreas Hoven will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stabaek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
In brief
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Tempers go at Stabaek
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Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stabaek will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Lundemo 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.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
12 unbeaten for Stabaek
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Stabaek did not have in the autumn.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stabaek is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
William Wendt 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Karel Soldát 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Stabaek who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Karel Soldát, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marcus Isane Kjos damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Stabaek do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marius Lundemo 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. William Wendt 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Stabaek?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Tromso? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
12 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marcus Isane Kjos damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Andreas Hoven has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stabaek they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Stabaek do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Lundemo 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jaime Carreño
“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.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stabaek is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marius Lundemo 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jaime Carreño 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejandro Avallay, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Stabaek
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“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 Stabaek, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Andreas Hoven
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andreas Hoven will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stabaek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marius Lundemo 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 terraces7 Sep 2026
At 23 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Stabaek, 2‑0 the final word against Aalesund in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Avallay 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stabaek, another week without a signature from Magnus Lankhof Dahlby.