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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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 watch26 Oct 2026
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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“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 ratings19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Montader Madjed is on it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
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 ratings12 Oct 2026
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 ratings12 Oct 2026
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 watch12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
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.
Market5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Hammarby, 3‑1 the final word against BK Hacken in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Market28 Sep 2026
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 ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
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 ratings21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
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 ratings21 Sep 2026
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 ratings21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
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 ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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 watch14 Sep 2026
“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 watch14 Sep 2026
7 appearances at GIF Sundsvall and the goals keep coming. Hammarby are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
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.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for 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 watch7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
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 targets31 Aug 2026
The clock did what Kalmar FF would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Hammarby, 1‑0 the final word against IFK Norrkoping in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Samuel Ramos
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Loan watch
The goals keep arriving from Suwaibou Kebbeh’s exile
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
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. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
Match12 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
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 ratings17 Aug 2026
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 ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
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 terraces17 Aug 2026
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 targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
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.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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 targets10 Aug 2026
$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 targets10 Aug 2026
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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
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 ratings3 Aug 2026
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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
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.