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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
Ahmad Faqa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emmanuel Gono and AIK agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Luciano Lollo 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Johan Hove
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, AIK do not lose
6 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Gono 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tomáš Vaclík 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
9 new faces, and AIK are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match24 Oct 2026
AIK 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Johan Hove
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market19 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Max Karimatsenga is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Lucas Hägg Johansson has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means AIK have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 9.01 — 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Áron Csongvai 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Johan Hove
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Romarinho, 35, rolls back the years — 8.63
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.63 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Ahmad Faqa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmad Faqa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AIK the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kylian Seka is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Falkenberg will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Anton Andersson has pre-agreed a move to AIK, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Gono 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Axel Kouamé, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
It needed Romarinho to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Falkenberg, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Abdihakin Ali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdihakin Ali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AIK the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Johan Hove
9 goals and a season average of 7.47 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AIK know it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 9.26 — 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.
The terraces5 Oct 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Johan Hove runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. 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
28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for AIK
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AIK are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
23 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Áron Csongvai 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at AIK
10 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bersant Celina has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AIK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match26 Sep 2026
AIK and Gefle cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Gefle came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for AIK
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AIK are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Emmanuel Gono 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.84 — 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Johan Hove
8 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
A derby to forget for AIK
Beaten 1‑2 by Hammarby in the one fixture where losing is not allowed. The football was bad enough; the week ahead will be worse.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Johan Hove runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Luciano Lollo 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
IFK Goteborg will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Jonathan Rasheed has pre-agreed a move to AIK, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Gono 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Allan Sousa at his very best
Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AIK.
Squad14 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Kristoffer Nordfeldt knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Abdihakin Ali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdihakin Ali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AIK the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Abdihakin Ali has agreed terms with IFK Norrkoping for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Kalmar FF will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Jakob Kindberg has pre-agreed a move to AIK, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
One of those days for Johan Hove
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.96, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Áron Csongvai 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Áron Csongvai at his very best
Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AIK.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Johan Hove is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.32 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Gono 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.51 — 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at AIK
10 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Johan Hove to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against IF Elfsborg, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Amel Mujanić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
AIK out of the cup
Halmstad ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Both of them Johan Hove's — 9.13
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A first appearance Sam Wijk will want to forget — 5.63
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.63, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad24 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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Áron Csongvai 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
IFK Goteborg made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.77, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 2 on the scoresheet, 8.44 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Match12 Aug 2026
AIK through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Atvidaberg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market17 Aug 2026
AIK say no — this time
The offer from Malmo FF for Axel Kouamé was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Henry Atola has agreed to leave AIK for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
22 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Áron Csongvai 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
Player ratings10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Johan Hove and AIK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Johan Hove 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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Johan Hove was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.62. 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Talks stall between AIK and Eskil Edh
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Kalmar FF leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market10 Aug 2026
Henry Atola is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AIK has been clear about where Henry Atola stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristoffer Nordfeldt commits to AIK for another 2 years.
Squad3 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 AIK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Áron Csongvai 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bersant Celina, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Victor Andersson has come up in conversations AIK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Johan Hove at his very best
Marked 8.65. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AIK.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AIK, another week without a signature from Áron Csongvai.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Bersant Celina's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.