Johan Dahlin

Goalkeeper - Retired
14 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Johan Dahlin

9 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Pontus Jansson 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

Mayckel Lahdo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

A bad afternoon for Malmo FF against Djurgarden

1‑2 to Djurgarden, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Daniel Kulusevski: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

No hiding place for Johan Dahlin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Johan Dahlin, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Gabriel Busanello 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.

Market

The Mayckel Lahdo question follows Malmo FF around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mayckel Lahdo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead

Johan Hammar goes back to face BK Hacken

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Johan Hammar’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Malmo FF needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Loan watch

Otto Rosengren keeps scoring at Aalborg

7 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Johan Dahlin keeps Malmo FF 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Malmo FF

Pontus Jansson 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Tarik Karic at Malmo FF

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tarik Karic is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

Malmo FF agree a free transfer for Samuel Brolin

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 terraces

Malmo FF supporters have found a favourite in Mayckel Lahdo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mayckel Lahdo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Malmo FF find a way past Hammarby

Hammarby made Malmo FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Daniel Kulusevski: “That is the standard”

“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 dugout

Nikola Vasić 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 Nikola Vasić is on it.

Player ratings

Robert Taylor runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

3 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Malmo FF bow out of the cup

Umeå FC go through and Malmo FF go home, 3‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

Umeå FC punish Malmo FF for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Nikola Vasić will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Malmo FF escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad

Johan Dahlin is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Johan Dahlin: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Adrian Skogmar says no to Landskrona BoIS

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Adrian Skogmar had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Inter Turku come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 3 signed and 3 gone

That is the business done at Malmo FF 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.

Market

Johan Hammar comes home

The shirt still fits. Johan Hammar is back at Malmo FF, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

A falling-out at Malmo FF

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

Market

Tarik Karic attracts admirers

The name of Tarik Karic has come up in conversations Malmo FF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief