Hammarby U20

1 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process
13 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Whatever happens, Hammarby do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

Frederik Winther 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 reaches 400 appearances

400 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Match

Oscar Johansson Schellhas sends Hammarby past IFK Goteborg

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

Player ratings

Oscar Johansson Schellhas in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Loan watch

Suwaibou Kebbeh keeps scoring at GIF Sundsvall

13 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Paulos Abraham

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Alexander Ekdal kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Élohim Kaboré dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

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

The step up is real for Emil Reyes Rigö

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Loan watch

John Lindelof counts the days

“I watch every Hammarby game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Fatih Karagumruk runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Frederik Winther

7.46, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Hammarby had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Alexander Ekdal was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Hammarby dressing room was either.

The dugout

Montader Madjed 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 Montader Madjed is on it.

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.

Match

Hammarby draw a blank against Kalmar FF

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Kalmar FF defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

11 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Hammarby

Conrad Wallem 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

Oscar Johansson Schellhas 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 Markus Karlsson

Marked 8.12 — 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.

Loan watch

Noah Persson counts the days

“I watch every Hammarby game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Helsingborg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Oscar Steinke Brånby

“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.

Match

Markus Karlsson rescues a point for Hammarby

It needed Markus Karlsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Atvidaberg, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Warner Hahn 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 dugout

Half-satisfied: Alexander Ekdal on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

When it matters, Obilor Okeke 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

10 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Warner Hahn

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 ratings

Élohim Kaboré, 19, steals the show — 7.76

Marked 7.76 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

Markus Karlsson pops up at the right end — 7.54

7.54, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

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.

Match

Hammarby make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hammarby have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tesfaldet Tekie signs on for more

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Hammarby

Conrad Wallem 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

Hammarby see off BK Hacken

Three points for Hammarby, 3‑1 the final word against BK Hacken in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

9 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

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

Both of them Paulos Abraham's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

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

Match

Paulos Abraham sends Hammarby past Falkenberg

It finished 2‑1, and it was Paulos Abraham’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hammarby.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Oscar Johansson Schellhas

“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.

Loan watch

Suwaibou Kebbeh keeps scoring at GIF Sundsvall

9 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Alexander Ekdal has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Alexander Ekdal on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Hammarby

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

Player ratings

Tesfaldet Tekie runs at them all day

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.

Match

Hammarby get the job done against Gefle

A 2‑0 win over Gefle, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Paulos Abraham in the eights

A performance of 8.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

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. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Samuel Brolin

“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

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Alexander Ekdal kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Frank Junior Adjei 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

Hammarby pick somebody else ahead of Essayas Lwampindy Bofua

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

7 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Derby day misery for Hammarby

Losing 1‑3 is one thing; losing to AIK in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Hammarby agree a free transfer for Johan Hammar

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.

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.

Loan watch

Noah Persson wants to come home

“I did not go to Helsingborg to sit and watch. I want to come back to Hammarby and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Loan watch

10 goals on loan for Suwaibou Kebbeh

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

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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Alexander Ekdal to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Talks stall between Hammarby and Frederik Winther

“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 terraces

The spotlight tightens on Warner Hahn

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

6 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Markus Karlsson 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

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

Tempers go at Hammarby

Nahir Besara 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 agree a free transfer for Martin Ellingsen

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.

Looking ahead

All roads lead to AIK

The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Hammarby will be judged on one thing only.

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 place in the month's best eleven for Tesfaldet Tekie

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

Loan watch

Suwaibou Kebbeh keeps scoring at GIF Sundsvall

6 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad

The armband comes off Nahir Besara

Hammarby will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

5 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Obilor Okeke

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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

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

Godwin Aguda will join Hammarby for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Godwin Aguda has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Hammarby have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Hammarby to Aboubacar Keita

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

Match

Hammarby see off IFK Norrkoping

Three points for Hammarby, 1‑0 the final word against IFK Norrkoping in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Conrad Wallem

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Paulos Abraham

A mark of 7.74, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Samuel Ramos wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Hammarby will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Samuel Ramos
  • Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Suwaibou Kebbeh’s exile
4 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Hammarby

2‑3 against IFK Goteborg, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Hammarby — 7.59

1 for Ibrahima Fofana, marked 7.59, 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.

Market

Hammarby turn down SJK for Oliver Hagen

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Hammarby walk away from Albin Andersson

$720.0K was the most the club would pay and Falkenberg 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.

Squad

Conrad Wallem 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

Door shut on Albin Andersson

Hammarby asked and Falkenberg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Hammarby agree a free transfer for Lars Sætra

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 ratings

Nobody could get near Obilor Okeke

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Sivert Øverby stays at Kalmar FF as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Hammarby will try again when the window opens; Kalmar FF may not be selling by then.

In brief

3 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Obilor Okeke beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 43. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Hammarby through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over GIF Sundsvall, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Hammarby run riot against Orebro

6‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Tesfaldet Tekie scores twice — 8.24

Two goals and a mark of 8.24 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Élohim Kaboré, 19, steals the show — 8.43

Marked 8.43 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.

Market

So close: Oscar Johansson Schellhas’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Helsingborg moved on, Oscar Johansson Schellhas reports back to Hammarby, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

The terraces

Hammarby sell a favourite for $3.4M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Victor Eriksson was one of the reasons people came, and $3.4M does not replace that by itself.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Aboubacar Keita

Hammarby and Kalmar FF have settled on $330.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from Modena for Samuel Brolin 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Not going: Élohim Kaboré stays at Hammarby

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Plymouth Argyle had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Hammarby turn down Halmstad for Victor Eriksson

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Conrad Wallem gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Conrad Wallem has just signed for Hammarby, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

$510.0K settles it between the clubs for Samuel Brolin

Kalmar FF have accepted the money. What Hammarby do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Hammarby rebuffed over Max Fenger

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

Transfer targets

No thanks: Matías Arezo rejects the move

Hammarby had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Penarol, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Boardroom

Hammarby to lose Tesfaldet Tekie for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Tesfaldet Tekie 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

A falling-out at Hammarby

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Hammarby Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Hammarby say no — this time

The offer from IFK Mariehamn 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Paulos Abraham's — 8.68

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

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.

Market

Slask join the queue for Victor Lind

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

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Hammarby

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

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

Late, late show earns Hammarby a point

Minute 87, against GIF Sundsvall, 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.

In brief