From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Cristian López damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jhon Figueroa breaks a bone — 131 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 131 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Erik Frøysa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Erik Frøysa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalesund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Jørgen Bøe
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jørgen Bøe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalesund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Aalesund did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ivan Djantou was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
197% of the income goes out in wages at Aalesund
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jhon Figueroa 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Elias Hagen 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Emil Engqvist
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Haugesund came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Elias Myrlid: 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.” Aalesund have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sondre Granaas is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Ivan Djantou at his very best
Marked 9.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aalesund.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Aalesund, 1‑0 the final word against Lillestrom in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The spotlight tightens on Paul Ngongo
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
67 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aalesund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 42 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aalesund will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Jørgen Bøe
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jørgen Bøe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalesund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kristoffer Klaesson 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Hagen 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
290% of the income goes out in wages at Aalesund
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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
20 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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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aalesund will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Sondre Granaas at 20 — 8.92
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sondre Granaas did not need any: 8.92, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Elias Hagen 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Odd made Aalesund work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 20 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aalesund will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kristoffer Klaesson 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Jhon Figueroa
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Rosenborg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
Erik Frøysa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalesund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Erik Frøysa has agreed terms with Odd for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jhon Figueroa 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
Elias Hagen 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Sandefjord, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Paul Ngongo
12 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Sondre Granaas, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market7 Sep 2026
Jørgen Bøe has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalesund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Hagen 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
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 204% of everything Aalesund earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Stabaek, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Cristian López damages knee ligaments — 112 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 112 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aalesund will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Uba Charles 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 9.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over IK Start, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Andresen, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Elias Hagen
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Aalesund out
Out, 1‑3 to Bodo/Glimt, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Henrik Melland at 21 — 8.59
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Henrik Melland did not need any: 8.59, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Aalesund's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aalesund has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kristoffer Klaesson 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Hagen 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Henrik Melland 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Paul Ngongo
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Kristoffer Klaesson: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
Aalesund march on in the cup
Lillestrom are out and Aalesund go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Aalesund
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Aalesund are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Janus Seehusen has left for Valerenga in a $230.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Elias Hagen 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian López
135 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matěj Radosta gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Matěj Radosta has just signed for Aalesund, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lillestrom come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Aalesund did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jørgen Bøe has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalesund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jørgen Bøe has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristoffer Klaesson and Aalesund agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Aalesund will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Uba Charles commits to Aalesund for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kristoffer Klaesson 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Janus Seehusen has come up in conversations Aalesund were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Hagen 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aalesund has been clear about where Mathias Christensen stands, which is more than many ever get.