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Squad30 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 Ekenäs IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ekenäs IF can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Ekenäs IF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elias Risp was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
Matias Paavola 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
August Björklund 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Oliver Güneş has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ekenäs IF 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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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ekenäs IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Matias Paavola and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Ekenäs IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Risp 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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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oskari Sallinen and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Matias Paavola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ekenäs IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oskari Sallinen and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ekenäs IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ekenäs IF are still strangers to each other
11 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Elias Risp 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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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ekenäs IF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Antton Nylund is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ekenäs IF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Agbo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Axel Sandbacka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 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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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matias Paavola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oskari Sallinen, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Ekenäs IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Agbo 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to PK-35 to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ekenäs IF and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nils Veinbergs is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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 Ekenäs IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” David Agbo and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Oskari Sallinen has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ekenäs IF 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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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 68 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 68 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matias Paavola 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ekenäs IF are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
76 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ekenäs IF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Matias Paavola and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ekenäs IF are still strangers to each other
11 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to SJK to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ekenäs IF and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nils Veinbergs is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 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.
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Ekenäs IF
0‑2 against KuPS, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oliver Heino, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ekenäs IF, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Joni Lod faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Joni Lod after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ekenäs IF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elias Risp was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market14 Sep 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Ekenäs IF could get for him.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
92 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ekenäs IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ekenäs IF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ekenäs IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Académica have kept their man, and Ekenäs IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
David Agbo 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Axel Sandbacka 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Nils Veinbergs
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Nils Veinbergs has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ekenäs IF have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF march on in the cup
Haka are out and Ekenäs IF go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ekenäs IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Lucas Pimentel, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04
A mark of 8.04 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at GIF Sundsvall is saying, and nobody at Ekenäs IF is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF asked and RWDM said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Oliver Güneş 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
David Agbo 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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Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over SalPa, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ekenäs IF they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
So close: David Agbo’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. SalPa moved on, David Agbo reports back to Ekenäs IF, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Lucas Pimentel at 21 — 7.89
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lucas Pimentel did not need any: 7.89, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ekenäs IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with GIF Sundsvall is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Oskari Sallinen has agreed terms with HJK for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Matias Paavola and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 117 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 117 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of David Agbo has come up in conversations Ekenäs IF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matias Paavola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Oulu have kept their man, and Ekenäs IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad17 Aug 2026
David Agbo 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elias Risp and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Daniel Henareh is in the works
Ekenäs IF have made the call to GIF Sundsvall. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasiru Mohammed
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ekenäs IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Asla Peltola pops up at the right end — 7.73
7.73, 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with HJK, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF have gone to AC Oulu 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matias Paavola 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Marcelo Costa has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Ekenäs IF have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The game went through Matias Paavola — 6.96
Marked 6.96 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matti Joronen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matti Jensen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ekenäs IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thadèe Kaleba and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF have gone to SJK 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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ekenäs IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Saidou Bah again, and this time the name on the line is Ilves. Ekenäs IF are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ekenäs IF can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HJK have kept their man, and Ekenäs IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Saidou Bah
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Saidou Bah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ekenäs IF.