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Match28 Oct 2026
The cup run ends for Kolding IF
0‑4 against FC Midtjylland, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at Kolding IF spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Kolding IF are taken apart by FC Midtjylland — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Market2 Nov 2026
Nebiyou Perry hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolding IF can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Kyrylo Shushman: 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.” Kolding IF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Valdemar Møller 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
HB Køge left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Quirin Moll
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Match24 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for Kolding IF
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and B.93 were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Valdemar Møller and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Casper Jørgensen. 1‑0 against B.93, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Kolding IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeffrey Adjei-Broni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.10 — 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.
Match26 Oct 2026
Half the programme played, position 12, 5 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kolding IF
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Frederik Kristensen could afford to be generous.
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Match19 Oct 2026
Kolding IF are in real trouble now
Position 12, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Kolding IF
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Kolding IF are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.83 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
7.60, 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Magnus Døj is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 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 Kolding IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oscar Buur, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The game went through Isak Tånnander — 6.55
Marked 6.55 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Match17 Oct 2026
Kolding IF rescue it on 92 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. Hillerød had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolai Bossen is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Jesús Alfaro
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Kolding IF is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Kolding IF know it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Kolding IF
Something was said to Oscar Buur and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Adam Danko
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kolding IF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Magnus Døj has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolding IF 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Jakub Trefil asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nikolaj Dolberg damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Oct 2026
2‑6 against Lyngby, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Isak Tånnander takes the afternoon — 8.25
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Isak Tånnander provided it, and the 8.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolding IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Kolding IF
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kolding IF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oscar Buur is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets5 Oct 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Kolding IF
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Kolding IF are no longer polite ones.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Kolding IF
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Eirik Brekke 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jesús Alfaro falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ethan Brandy, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 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
Match21 Sep 2026
Kolding IF are in real trouble now
Position 12, 1 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match19 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Kolding IF
A 0‑3 beating by Middelfart was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ethan Brandy gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ethan Brandy has just signed for Kolding IF, and for once the answer mattered.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Kolding IF
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kolding IF are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ethan Brandy and Kolding IF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Kolding IF dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Frederik Kristensen to a room that had heard them before.
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Squad14 Sep 2026
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolding IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Kolding IF
A 0‑3 beating by Aalborg was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Valdemar Møller 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 targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Vejle would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Oscar Buur
“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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Kolding IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Alfaro 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kolding IF
14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kolding IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Kolding IF close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 40 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 targets7 Sep 2026
An offer of $380.0K for Sander Ravn
Kolding IF have gone to Vejle 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Copenhagen have kept their man, and Kolding IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Valdemar Møller and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Kolding IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Alfaro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kolding IF will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for Kolding IF
Aalborg top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Jakub Trefil
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolding IF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
Magnus Saaby hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolding IF can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Esbjerg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Kolding IF asked and Tromso said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Frederik Kristensen left the room before anybody could ask which.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jacob Linnet, and the manager let it.
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Squad24 Aug 2026
Emiliano Marcondes damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Viborg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match19 Aug 2026
Frederik Møller wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Frederik Møller found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Viborg went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Frederik Møller at 20 — 8.14
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Frederik Møller did not need any: 8.14, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with FC Fredericia; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolding IF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kolding IF have done the hard part with Aalborg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Geovanni Vianney from FC Copenhagen for $510.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni 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.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kolding IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from OB for Sterling Yatéké 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Nordsjaelland have kept their man, and Kolding IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nicolai Clausen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Kolding IF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nebiyou Perry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kolding IF
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Frederik Kristensen after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Nemanja Nedić is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pascal Estrada and Kolding IF agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Kolding IF and Hobro in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match8 Aug 2026
Frederik Møller scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Hobro, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HB Køge have kept their man, and Kolding IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Fischer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jannik Olsen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
HB Køge left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jeffrey Adjei-Broni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nebiyou Perry commits to Kolding IF for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kolding IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nebiyou Perry 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Frederik Kristensen after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Malte Heyde is in the works
Kolding IF have made the call to FC Nordsjaelland. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.