Simon Olsson

Defensive Midfielder - IF Elfsborg
2 Jan 2027
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Marked for Simon Olsson

14 Edition

The IF Elfsborg Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market2 Nov 2026

Rasmus Wikström asks to leave IF Elfsborg

“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.

Market2 Nov 2026

Isak Pettersson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around IF Elfsborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Thomas Isherwood in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

In brief

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12 Edition

The IF Elfsborg Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market19 Oct 2026

Sebastian Holmén has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around IF Elfsborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Arbër Zeneli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Gottfrid Rapp says IF Elfsborg went back on their word

“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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Thomas Isherwood out for 43 days

The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Thomas Isherwood, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Tempers go at IF Elfsborg

Rasmus Wikström 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Still nobody has beaten IF Elfsborg

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Sivert Øverby shuts the door

Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Mario Risso

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Simon Olsson

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

11 Edition

The IF Elfsborg Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Simon Olsson shuts the door

Defensive actions: 30, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Isak Pettersson

There were 7 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

Only the photograph left for Simon Hedlund

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Hedlund will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IF Elfsborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Taylor Silverholt

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Rasmus Wikström 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 IF Elfsborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Sebastian Holmén

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

10 Edition

The IF Elfsborg Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Simon Olsson shuts the door

Defensive actions: 37, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market5 Oct 2026

Isak Pettersson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IF Elfsborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at IF Elfsborg

Sebastian Holmén 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 ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Filip Malbašić

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match3 Oct 2026

Rodin Quiñónes sends IF Elfsborg past Atvidaberg

It finished 2‑0, and it was Rodin Quiñónes’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to IF Elfsborg.

Squad5 Oct 2026

IF Elfsborg lose Júlíus Magnússon

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Rodin Quiñónes in the eights

A performance of 8.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

One of those days for Arbër Zeneli

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

101% of the income goes out in wages at IF Elfsborg

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

9 Edition

The IF Elfsborg Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Julius Beck

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 30 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Market28 Sep 2026

Per Frick has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around IF Elfsborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Arbër Zeneli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Simon Olsson

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Sebastian Holmén 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 IF Elfsborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

At 21, Julius Beck is already the best thing here

An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. IF Elfsborg have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Sebastian Holmén 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 IF Elfsborg, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Match26 Sep 2026

IF Elfsborg and BK Hacken cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. BK Hacken came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market28 Sep 2026

Sebastian Holmén runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs IF Elfsborg money.

In brief

1 Edition

The IF Elfsborg Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

Isak Pettersson keeps IF Elfsborg 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

14 seasons of Per Frick

267 appearances across 14 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and IF Elfsborg know what they have.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at IF Elfsborg

Sebastian Holmén 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Niklas Hult signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Niklas Hult commits to IF Elfsborg for another 2 years.

Match1 Aug 2026

IF Elfsborg come up short against Djurgarden

Djurgarden left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market3 Aug 2026

Orebro watching Ludvig Richtnér

The interest is real enough to have reached print. IF Elfsborg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief