From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match12 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, AIK do not lose
9 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.
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
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Alexander Fransson 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.40 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AIK had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Lars Sætra 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Lucas Assadi 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.
In brief
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The dugout
Emil Lindelof on the point
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Squad
Isaque has had enough of the bench
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Match
Point won or two lost for AIK?
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match5 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Helsingborg, and it could have been more.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Erik Flataker, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.27
A mark of 8.27 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match5 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, AIK do not lose
8 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 ratings7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at AIK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Áron Csongvai was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at AIK
Dino Beširović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 22 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Lucas Assadi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.34. 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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
All roads lead to Hammarby
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes AIK will be judged on one thing only.
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Steady
Match29 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten AIK
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Isaque
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Kalmar FF will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Sivert Øverby 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Áron Csongvai
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AIK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mads Døhr Thychosen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 Aug 2026
AIK are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Eskil Edh stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.27 on the card, and the AIK support went home talking about one name.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match19 Aug 2026
AIK out of the cup
Helsingborg ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Kristoffer Nordfeldt: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Isaque due for a AIK medical
Everything agreed with Shakhtar, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten AIK
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.
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.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
AIK through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Atvidaberg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. 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 offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
AIK pay Malmo FF $3.4M for a proper upgrade
Malmo FF did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $3.4M for Otto Rosengren, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kevin Filling, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80
A mark of 7.80 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
AIK asked and Malmo FF said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Abdihakin Ali pops up at the right end — 7.56
7.56, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at AIK 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.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Malmo FF; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Johan Hove commits to AIK for another 4 years.
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
AIK get the job done against Kalmar FF
A 3‑2 win over Kalmar FF, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at AIK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Hove 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jacob Une 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout10 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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
AIK say no — this time
The offer from IFK Norrkoping for Johan Hove 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 ratings3 Aug 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AIK have gone to Malmo FF with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AIK have gone to Molde with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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
A row about effort at AIK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Áron Csongvai was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Gustavo Varela is in the works
AIK have made the call to Monza. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
AIK are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.