The Halmstad Courier
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ludvig Arvidsson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Halmstad — 7.92
1 for Rocco Ascone, marked 7.92, 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Gustav Friberg has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Halmstad they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Dmytro Ledvii turns down Halmstad
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: LNZ keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Gustav Friberg signs for Djurgarden while still at Halmstad
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Gustav Friberg has agreed terms with Djurgarden for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Rami Kaib 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 Halmstad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Halmstad rebuffed over Max Svensson
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Helsingborg have kept their man, and Halmstad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Karl Jönsson 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
André Boman 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.
In brief
- Match Atvidaberg snatch it back from Halmstad
- Squad 10 new faces, and Halmstad are still learning each other
- Match Omar Faraj rescues a point for Halmstad