Hammarby U20

20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process
29 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Hammarby bid $9.0M for Camilo Durán

The offer went to Bloemfontein Celtic 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Squad

Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Frederik Winther 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 targets

Columbus Crew tell Hammarby: Jamal Thiaré is not for sale

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.

Squad

Oscar Steinke Brånby stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oscar Steinke Brånby and Hammarby agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Hammarby try to borrow Joel Mvuka

Bodo/Glimt have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Victor Eriksson gets picked when it counts

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 Victor Eriksson is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Oscar Jansson

“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.

Market

The Frederik Winther story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Frederik Winther signs something — a contract at Hammarby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Malmo FF join the queue for Montader Madjed

Add another name to the list: Malmo FF have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Montader Madjed. The answer from Hammarby has not changed — yet.

Squad

Markus Karlsson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Markus Karlsson commits to Hammarby for another 5 years.

Squad

Victor Eriksson 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Hammarby make their move for Marcus Rohdén

$120.0K on the table at IF Elfsborg. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

No deal for Anthony Olusanya at that price

Hammarby offered $420.0K; Kalmar FF said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

A row about effort at Hammarby

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frederik Winther was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marcus Rohdén

Hammarby asked and IF Elfsborg 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 dugout

No hiding place for Frank Junior Adjei

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frank Junior Adjei, and the manager let it.

Transfer targets

Hammarby ask about Jamal Thiaré

A loan enquiry to Columbus Crew: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

27 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Warner Hahn for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Hammarby will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Warner Hahn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Frederik Winther gets picked when it counts

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 Frederik Winther is on it.

Squad

Tim Stålheden is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Tim Stålheden has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

Markus Karlsson moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Hammarby than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

The dugout

Frank Junior Adjei 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 Hammarby, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

26 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Frederik Winther 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 dugout

Paulos Abraham gets picked when it counts

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 Paulos Abraham is on it.

The dugout

Waylon Renecke gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Élohim Kaboré talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Hammarby know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Suwaibou Kebbeh’s exile

5 goals in 13 games at GIF Sundsvall — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Hammarby updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

25 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Hammarby

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frederik Winther was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Victor Eriksson gets picked when it counts

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 Victor Eriksson is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Oscar Steinke Brånby

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oscar Steinke Brånby, and the manager let it.

Market

The Frederik Winther story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Frederik Winther signs something — a contract at Hammarby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

24 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from Zaglebie for Hampus Skoglund 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Squad

Samuel Ramos is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

The dugout

Tesfaldet Tekie gets picked when it counts

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 Tesfaldet Tekie is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Aboubacar Keita

“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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oscar Jansson damages knee ligaments — 36 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.

Squad

The season belongs to Victor Lind

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Hammarby have had the benefit of it.

The dugout

Björn Hedlöf says Hammarby went back on their word

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Warner Hahn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Hammarby

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frederik Winther was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Oliver Hagen

“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 dugout

Frederik Winther gets picked when it counts

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 Frederik Winther is on it.

Market

The Tesfaldet Tekie question follows Hammarby around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tesfaldet Tekie’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Viktor Đukanović’s exile

3 goals in 14 games at DAC Dunajska Streda — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Hammarby updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

22 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Oscar Jansson out for 43 days

43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hammarby lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Victor Eriksson 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 dugout

Élohim Kaboré gets picked when it counts

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 Élohim Kaboré is on it.

Market

The Élohim Kaboré talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Hammarby know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch

5 goals on loan for Suwaibou Kebbeh

13 appearances at GIF Sundsvall and the goals keep coming. Hammarby are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

21 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oscar Jansson damages knee ligaments — 50 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 50 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Victor Eriksson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Hammarby

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Waylon Renecke was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Victor Eriksson plays

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.

Market

The Frederik Winther story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Frederik Winther signs something — a contract at Hammarby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Élohim Kaboré

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Élohim Kaboré’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

20 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A European night to remember for Hammarby

1‑1 against KR, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Player ratings

Frank Junior Adjei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Obilor Okeke

Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Paulos Abraham gets picked when it counts

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 Paulos Abraham is on it.

The dugout

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.” Viktor Svensson chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The form table has caught Oscar Steinke Brånby

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Market

The Paulos Abraham question follows Hammarby around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Paulos Abraham’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

19 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Aboubacar Keita keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hammarby may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Victor Lind is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Hammarby will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Warner Hahn signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Warner Hahn commits to Hammarby for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Warner Hahn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Tesfaldet Tekie has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

18 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oscar Jansson damages knee ligaments — 76 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 76 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.

Match

Hammarby come up short in Europe

1‑2 away to the standard of Feyenoord. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Warner Hahn

There were 7 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.

The dugout

Waylon Renecke: 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.” Hammarby have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Hampus Skoglund goes up and wins it — 7.80

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.80 for the rest of it.

Squad

Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Noah Ljungblom pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

The dugout

Viktor Svensson faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Viktor Svensson after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

When it matters, Élohim Kaboré plays

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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oscar Jansson damages knee ligaments — 83 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 83 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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 dugout

Victor Eriksson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hammarby 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Oscar Steinke Brånby

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oscar Steinke Brånby, and the manager let it.

Squad

“I want to play”: Oscar Steinke Brånby speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Market

The Frederik Winther story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Frederik Winther signs something — a contract at Hammarby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

16 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A season's verdict on Élohim Kaboré: the best of his age

Hammarby have a 19-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.

Market

Tesfaldet Tekie is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Squad

Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Eriksson 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 dugout

When it matters, Paulos Abraham plays

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.

The dugout

Frederik Winther 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.

Market

The Paulos Abraham question follows Hammarby around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Paulos Abraham’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

The clock does Oliver Hagen’s negotiating for him

2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Hammarby could ask drops and the wages Oliver Hagen can ask rise.

In brief

15 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oscar Jansson damages knee ligaments — 99 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 99 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.

Match

Montader Madjed lights up a European night for Hammarby

1‑1 against Astra, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Montader Madjed was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings

Montader Madjed, 21, steals the show — 7.66

Marked 7.66 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Only the photograph left for Oliver Hagen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oliver Hagen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hammarby the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Warner Hahn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Late, late show earns Hammarby a point

Minute 90, against Astra, 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.

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad

Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Waylon Renecke 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 dugout

Tesfaldet Tekie has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hammarby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

14 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Oscar Jansson out for 109 days

109 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hammarby lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Frederik Winther 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.

Squad

Montader Madjed is the month’s best young player

At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Hammarby will try not to make too much of it.

Market

Still no ink between Hammarby and Tesfaldet Tekie

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hammarby, another week without a signature from Tesfaldet Tekie.

Squad

Nahir Besara named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nahir Besara is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Aboubacar Keita gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

When it matters, Élohim Kaboré plays

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.

Market

Still no signature from Tesfaldet Tekie

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Hammarby could get for him.

Market

The Élohim Kaboré talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Hammarby know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

13 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Oscar Jansson damages knee ligaments — 118 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 118 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.

Match

Obilor Okeke lights up a European night for Hammarby

1‑0 against Astra, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Obilor Okeke was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Montader Madjed at 21 — 8.00

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Montader Madjed did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Nahir Besara yet — 7.91

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.91 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Squad

Victor Eriksson falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Paulos Abraham beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Hammarby see off IFK Goteborg

Three points for Hammarby, 2‑0 the final word against IFK Goteborg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Hammarby. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

In brief

  • Player ratings Obilor Okeke in the eights
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Victor Eriksson has become a man the manager trusts
12 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Oscar Jansson out for 127 days

127 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hammarby lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Tesfaldet Tekie is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Montader Madjed beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Match

Kalmar FF take the points off Hammarby

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hampus Skoglund

“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 dugout

Hammarby keep their word to Tesfaldet Tekie

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

Waylon Renecke 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 dugout

Viktor Svensson answers for it

“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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

135 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Tesfaldet Tekie leads the rout of Atvidaberg

3‑0, and Tesfaldet Tekie took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Hammarby tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Vintage Nahir Besara — 8.16

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.16, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Oliver Hagen is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Warner Hahn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Nahir Besara makes it 400

400 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Markus Karlsson

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Tesfaldet Tekie

Marked 8.36 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

One of those days for Obilor Okeke

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

10 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Jansson

143 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hammarby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Paulos Abraham lights up a European night for Hammarby

2‑0 against KR, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Paulos Abraham was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings

Montader Madjed, 21, steals the show — 8.28

Marked 8.28 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Hammarby — 7.87

1 for Tesfaldet Tekie, marked 7.87, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Emil Reyes Rigö is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Eriksson 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 dugout

Warner Hahn gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Élohim Kaboré

At 19 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.

In brief

9 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Boardroom

Hammarby beat the market to Abdussalam Magashy from Kalmar FF

Kalmar FF will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Abdussalam Magashy has pre-agreed a move to Hammarby, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

The dugout

Tesfaldet Tekie gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

A bad afternoon for Hammarby against Falkenberg

0‑1 to Falkenberg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

Inquest at Hammarby

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Viktor Svensson to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

When it matters, Ibrahima Fofana plays

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.

Squad

Élohim Kaboré, 19, is the weekend’s best young player

Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Hammarby would like this to lead.

In brief

8 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A European lesson for Hammarby

1‑3 against Feyenoord. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Market

Tesfaldet Tekie is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Warner Hahn stands alone

7 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.

Player ratings

Élohim Kaboré, 19, steals the show — 8.03

Marked 8.03 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Obilor Okeke

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Tesfaldet Tekie has agreed to leave Hammarby for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Match

Élohim Kaboré sends Hammarby past Gefle

It finished 1‑0, and it was Élohim Kaboré’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hammarby.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Victor Eriksson'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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

AIK take the derby

1‑2, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.

Player ratings

Élohim Kaboré, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.88

A mark of 7.88 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.

Market

Oliver Hagen is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Oliver Hagen has agreed to leave Hammarby for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Victor Eriksson 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Frederik Winther 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 ratings

Nahir Besara beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Viktor Svensson faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Viktor Svensson after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

When it matters, Élohim Kaboré plays

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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Zaglebie come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Hammarby did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Obilor Okeke

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Looking ahead

Derby week at Hammarby

AIK next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.

Squad

Élohim Kaboré is the division's best young player this month

At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Hammarby will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Market

Hammarby and Tesfaldet Tekie are talking past each other

“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.

Squad

A row about effort at Hammarby

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Waylon Renecke was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Frederik Winther takes the honours

Marked 7.63 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Hammarby had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Élohim Kaboré

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Élohim Kaboré has come out of that comparison in the side, and Hammarby have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

5 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Kalmar FF come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Hammarby did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Nahir Besara yet — 7.85

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Zaglebie join the queue for Hampus Skoglund

Add another name to the list: Zaglebie have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hampus Skoglund. The answer from Hammarby has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Transfer targets

Hammarby baulk at the price for Isak Pettersson

IF Elfsborg wanted more than $500.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Élohim Kaboré

At 19 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.

Match

Hammarby see off IFK Norrkoping

Three points for Hammarby, 2‑0 the final word against IFK Norrkoping in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

Samuel Ramos gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

4 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Hammarby out of the cup

IFK Goteborg ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from IFK Goteborg for Markus Karlsson 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 targets

No deal for Oskar Fallenius at that price

Hammarby offered $970.0K; Djurgarden said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

Squad

Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Eriksson 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 targets

Hammarby rebuffed over Anton Andersson

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Falkenberg have kept their man, and Hammarby go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Warner Hahn

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Warner Hahn, and the manager let it.

Match

Hammarby come up short against Malmo FF

Malmo FF left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Hammarby to Anton Andersson

The clock did what Falkenberg would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

In brief

3 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Montader Madjed sends Hammarby through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Montader Madjed obliged against GIF Sundsvall. 4‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Hammarby.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Montader Madjed at 21 — 10.00

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Montader Madjed did not need any: 10.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from Malmo FF for Tesfaldet Tekie 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.

Squad

3 goals for Montader Madjed

The match ball belongs to Montader Madjed, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Transfer targets

No deal for Andrej Đurić at that price

Hammarby offered $3.3M; Malmo FF said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Match

Hammarby make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hammarby have 4 straight wins of it.

Boardroom

Hammarby close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 6 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 targets

Hammarby make their move for Oskar Fallenius

$570.0K on the table at Djurgarden. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Facinet Conté will not be coming to Hammarby

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Young Boys is saying, and nobody at Hammarby is enjoying the guessing.

In brief

2 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from Falkenberg for Frederik Winther 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 targets

An offer of $3.3M for Andrej Đurić

Hammarby have gone to Malmo FF with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Player ratings

Élohim Kaboré, 19, steals the show — 7.82

Marked 7.82 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $3.3M sale of Noah Persson

He is going to Djurgarden, the club has $3.3M 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.

Market

Noah Persson moves on

Djurgarden pay $3.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Djurgarden watching Oscar Johansson Schellhas

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Hammarby have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom

Hammarby to lose Nikola Vasić for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Nikola Vasić 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.

Squad

Victor Eriksson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Victor Eriksson and Hammarby agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Warner Hahn 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from Brondby for Victor Lind was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Victor Eriksson goes up and wins it — 7.74

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.74 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

FC Midtjylland tell Hammarby: Mikael Uhre is not for sale

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.

Market

Nikola Vasić is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets

Oscar Jansson due for a Hammarby medical

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.

Squad

Nahir Besara stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nahir Besara and Hammarby agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Obilor Okeke

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Djurgarden join the queue for Noah Persson

Add another name to the list: Djurgarden have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Noah Persson. The answer from Hammarby has not changed — yet.

In brief