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Crisis
Match2 Nov 2026
Fredrikstad are in real trouble now
Position 14, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Fredrikstad
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Fredrikstad are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Aleksander Andresen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
Molde left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Nov 2026
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Salim Laghzaoui named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Salim Laghzaoui is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ulrik Fredriksen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fredrikstad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Fredrikstad
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Fredrikstad are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leonard Owusu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sondre Sørløkk, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Something was said to Leonard Owusu and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.86 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Salim Laghzaoui 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Fredrikstad
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fredrikstad are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Samuel Leach Holm and Fredrikstad agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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
Aleksander Andresen 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Salim Laghzaoui to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Stromsgodset, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fredrik Holmé commits to Fredrikstad for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sigurd Kvile 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Solomon Owusu, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Samuel Leach Holm has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fredrikstad 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martin Børsheim’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Fredrikstad have no good answer.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Fredrikstad money.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Fredrikstad will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Crisis
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Sigurd Kvile
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sigurd Kvile will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fredrikstad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Leonard Owusu 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Viking left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Aron Odegaard left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ulrik Fredriksen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fredrikstad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Øystein Øvretveit 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leonard Owusu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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 dugout28 Sep 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.35 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fredrikstad had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Aron Odegaard after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match26 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. HamKam defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
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 Fredrikstad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Fredrikstad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sigurd Kvile 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fredrikstad had the best player on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Fredrikstad are still strangers to each other
13 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.
Match19 Sep 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Aron Odegaard chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Fredrikstad man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Oskar Øhlenschlæger was the best thing in any of them.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad14 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Aleksander Andresen, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.05
A mark of 8.05 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Oskar Øhlenschlæger was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.80. 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Fredrikstad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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
Daniel Eid was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brage Kvithyld 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Aron Odegaard on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Leonard Owusu 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Fredrikstad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Solomon Owusu
“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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Martin Børsheim has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fredrikstad 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Fredrikstad will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
0‑1 against Bodo/Glimt, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ulrik Fredriksen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fredrikstad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fredrikstad have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Sigurd Kvile has agreed terms with Viking for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Aleksander Andresen 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Øhlenschlæger 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Leonard Owusu
“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.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Fredrikstad scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lillestrom come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fredrikstad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clock did what Cardiff City would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Ulrik Fredriksen has come up in conversations Fredrikstad were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Fredrikstad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KAA Gent have kept their man, and Fredrikstad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Aleksander Andresen 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Rosenborg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Henrik Skogvold sold
Brann arrived with $2.6M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Match12 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Sarpsborg 08, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Fredrikstad
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Sandefjord kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Fredrikstad will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Match12 Aug 2026
Fredrikstad win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 119th minute. Sarpsborg 08 will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fredrikstad and Cardiff City have settled on $3.3M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market17 Aug 2026
Åsane come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fredrikstad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Henrik Skogvold has gone, the accounts have $2.6M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Fredrikstad close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 4 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $300.0K — a club that wants David Hickson enough to be asked twice.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
$2.2M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Tromso, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Bodo/Glimt for Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$4.8M was the most the club would pay and Ferencvaros were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $2.2M sale of Rocco Robert Shein
He is going to Brann, the club has $2.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$2.2M on the table at Cardiff City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Daniel Eid has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fredrikstad they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ulrik Fredriksen 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Kristiansund this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Valerenga, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
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 Fredrikstad, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Ranheim for Oskar Øhlenschlæger 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Ferencvaros this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Fredrikstad asked and Sturm Graz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Fredrikstad can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Leonard Owusu 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oskar Øhlenschlæger was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Fredrikstad dressing room in a hurry
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Squad
Anas Farah Ali signs a new deal
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The dugout
The view from the dugout