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Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with BK Hacken; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Gefle, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Gefle have done the hard part with Djurgarden, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Gefle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alem Nezirević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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 dugout22 Feb 2027
Theodor Hansemon is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Malïk Mokédé asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.
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Match15 Feb 2027
Gefle sink to position 15
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Halmstad; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Eric Larsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gefle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
$140.0K was the most the club would pay and BK Hacken 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Eric Larsson is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Squad8 Feb 2027
Viktor Kulusevski damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Malmo FF, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Gefle have gone to BK Hacken 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Gefle
Eric Larsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Alem Nezirević 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastian Olsson commits to Gefle for another 3 years.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Yukiya Sugita asks for a word with the manager
“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 dugout8 Feb 2027
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Noah Lundström’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kosta Petrovic commits to Gefle for another 3 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Gefle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alem Nezirević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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 Gefle know it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Dillan Ismail is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Gefle has been clear about where Dillan Ismail stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market1 Feb 2027
11 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Morten Trøen is 18, and Gefle have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Match18 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Gefle
Position 15 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Gefle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alem Nezirević 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 63 days on the sidelines for Morgan Arnstad, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Gefle
Theodor Hansemon 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Alem Nezirević
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lukas Vikgren and Gefle agree another 3 years.
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The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gefle may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Gefle
Eric Larsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Kosta Petrovic arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kosta Petrovic has, at Gefle, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Alem Nezirević 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dejan Ekdal has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktor Svensson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Gefle
5 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Alem Nezirević asks for a word with the manager
“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.
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The dugout4 Jan 2027
Alen Zahirović: 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.” Gefle have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dillan Ismail and Gefle agree another 1 years.
Market4 Jan 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Gefle signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market4 Jan 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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 Dec 2026
Alem Nezirević 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yukiya Sugita, and the manager let it.
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Match21 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Gefle
Position 15 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Eric Larsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gefle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alem Nezirević 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Eric Larsson is still paying for one afternoon at Gefle
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Yukiya Sugita asks for a word with the manager
“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.
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Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar Claesson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Axel Bertelsen 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Noah Lundström’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Gefle has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Dillan Ismail knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gefle, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Måns Berggren commits to Gefle for another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Gefle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alem Nezirević 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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Market30 Nov 2026
Måns Berggren has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gefle they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Gefle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alem Nezirević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Gefle
Deniz Yaldir 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Theodor Hansemon's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Alem Nezirević knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alem Nezirević trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market30 Nov 2026
The clock does Måns Berggren’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Gefle could ask drops and the wages Måns Berggren can ask rise.
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Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Gefle
Position 15 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Eric Larsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gefle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Eric Larsson is still paying for one afternoon at Gefle
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lukas Vikgren, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Alem Nezirević knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gefle, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market23 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Gefle money.
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The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gefle may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Gefle
Eric Larsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Alem Nezirević 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 dugout16 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Mamadou Kouyaté asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Noah Lundström’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gefle is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Theodor Hansemon commits to Gefle for another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Gefle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alem Nezirević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Simon Lustig joins the Gefle first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Simon Lustig is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Linus Kulusevski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 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.
Market9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Mamadou Kouyaté asks for a word with the manager
“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.
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Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Måns Berggren
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Måns Berggren will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gefle the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Theodor Hansemon and Gefle agree another 4 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Sixten Gustafsson
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Sixten Gustafsson has come out of that comparison in the side, and Gefle have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Theodor Hansemon's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dillan Ismail, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Yukiya Sugita. Gefle will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Yukiya Sugita asks for a word with the manager
“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.
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Uneasy
Match26 Oct 2026
Gefle are in real trouble now
Position 15, 5 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Gefle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alem Nezirević 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Gefle caught on 95 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Kalmar FF scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Gefle
Axel Bertelsen 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Eric Larsson is still paying for one afternoon at Gefle
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Gefle
Something was said to Sixten Gustafsson and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Match24 Oct 2026
It needed Yukiya Sugita to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Kalmar FF, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Max Croon
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Croon, and the manager let it.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
Yukiya Sugita finally opens his account
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Market
The clock does Mamadou Kouyaté’s negotiating for him
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Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Gefle scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Match17 Oct 2026
It had gone 12 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gefle is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Sixten Gustafsson, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79
A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Max Croon
At 20 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Gefle
Eric Larsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Gefle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alem Nezirević 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Gefle, 2‑1 the final word against Atvidaberg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Gefle
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gefle they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Deniz Yaldir 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Nils Berg joins the Gefle first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nils Berg is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match10 Oct 2026
Late, late show earns Gefle a point
Minute 86, against BK Hacken, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A Gefle teenager takes the young player award
Sixten Gustafsson is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gefle is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Måns Berggren has agreed terms with Kalmar FF for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eric Larsson and Gefle agree another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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
Alem Nezirević 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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.
In brief
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Squad
12 new faces, and Gefle are still learning each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Alem Nezirević asks for a word with the manager
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Gefle
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match28 Sep 2026
Gefle sink to position 16
0 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 8 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Malïk Mokédé, 21, 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 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eric Larsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gefle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
AIK take the points off Gefle
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Gefle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alem Nezirević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yukiya Sugita, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Gefle's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gefle has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 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 Gefle, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gefle is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Gefle
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Gefle
Eric Larsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Gefle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yukiya Sugita was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alen Zahirović
“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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Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gefle is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Gefle
7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Morgan Arnstad gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Morgan Arnstad has just signed for Gefle, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mamadou Kouyaté has agreed terms with Helsingborg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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
Words exchanged at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Gefle cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
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Match5 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Gefle
A 0‑3 beating by IFK Norrkoping was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 6.63 on 19 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Match5 Sep 2026
Gefle are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. David Ström has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Gefle have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Gefle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alem Nezirević 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Gefle
Mamadou Kouyaté and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for August Strömberg
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Boardroom
Doors closed at Gefle
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Squad
13 new faces, and Gefle are still learning each other
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Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 12 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Gefle
0‑7 against Malmo FF, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Gefle
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match29 Aug 2026
Gefle leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Eric Larsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gefle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Gefle and Malmo FF, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Axel Bertelsen and Gefle agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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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 Gefle, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Gefle's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gefle has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with another club, 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
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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
Alem Nezirević 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
No clean sheets in sight for Gefle
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Gefle against Orebro
1‑2 to Orebro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Gefle out
Out, 0‑2 to Malmo FF, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Gefle taken apart
0‑3 to Djurgarden, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Theodor Hansemon will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gefle the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Gefle close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 1 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IFK Goteborg have kept their man, and Gefle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with AIK 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom17 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.
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Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Helsingborg have kept their man, and Gefle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Eric Larsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gefle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
BK Hacken will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Noah Ek has pre-agreed a move to Gefle, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑2 to GIF Sundsvall, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gustav Krafth has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Martin Krafth joins the Gefle first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Krafth 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ludwig Ekdal has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jakob Granqvist 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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Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eric Larsson and Gefle agree another 1 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alem Nezirević 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 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Yukiya Sugita’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
The dugout3 Aug 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 0‑1 Robin Svanberg left the room before anybody could ask which.