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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.11 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kongsvinger is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match31 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Kongsvinger do not lose
7 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Kongsvinger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andreas Dybevik 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 terraces2 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Adrian Kurd Rønning has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Simen Hestnes
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Simen Hestnes has come out of that comparison in the side, and Kongsvinger have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ludvig Langrekken will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kongsvinger the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Kongsvinger 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
Words at Kongsvinger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andreas Dybevik 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kongsvinger told Joseph Mangondo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kongsvinger
13 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
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sondre Granaas is the weekend's best young player
At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Sondre Granaas at 20 — 8.11
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sondre Granaas did not need any: 8.11, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kongsvinger is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sondre Norheim 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Kongsvinger, 1‑0 the final word against Moss in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emil Nielsen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kongsvinger told Adrian Kurd Rønning something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout19 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.” Magnus Svensson kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rasmus Christiansen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kongsvinger the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Emin Pajic
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Kongsvinger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andreas Dybevik 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sondre Granaas 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Ole Haaland, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kongsvinger know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Kongsvinger could get for him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Andreas Dybevik takes the afternoon — 8.12
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andreas Dybevik provided it, and the 8.12 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Daniel Lysgård
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Lysgård will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kongsvinger the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Andreas Dybevik was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 19 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emil Nielsen commits to Kongsvinger for another 4 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Kongsvinger can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andreas Dybevik. 2‑0 against Raufoss, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Emil Nielsen
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kongsvinger they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 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 Kongsvinger this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Emil Nielsen 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kongsvinger are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.49. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Gjerstrøm will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kongsvinger the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
The drought breaks for Kongsvinger
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and IK Start were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Andreas Dybevik 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Leon Hovland 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Victor Fors’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kongsvinger.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.09 — 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 dugout21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Kongsvinger's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kongsvinger has to find a result from somewhere.
Market14 Sep 2026
Emil Nielsen has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kongsvinger they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andreas Dybevik 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Something was said to Sondre Norheim and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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.” Magnus Svensson chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ranheim came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kongsvinger is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Rasmus Christiansen has agreed terms with Moss for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nobel Tesfazgyi Gebrezgi has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Kongsvinger have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sondre Norheim was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sondre Granaas, and the manager let it.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Kongsvinger will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kongsvinger they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ludvig Langrekken has agreed terms with HamKam for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Stromsgodset wanted more than $220.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andreas Dybevik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Kristiansund will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Awet Alemseged has pre-agreed a move to Kongsvinger, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Adrian Hansen 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Hødd left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Kongsvinger are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Kongsvinger out
Out, 0‑1 to Valerenga, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Gjerstrøm will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kongsvinger the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Kongsvinger's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kongsvinger has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mathias Gjerstrøm 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andreas Dybevik 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Raufoss will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Markus Aanesland has pre-agreed a move to Kongsvinger, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clock did what Brann would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with William Da Rocha: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
A 0‑0 win over Ranheim, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market17 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Emil Nielsen
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emil Nielsen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kongsvinger the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Kongsvinger close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 14 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Kongsvinger have gone to Brann 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.2K — a club that wants Elias Sandøy Myrvågnes enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Emil Nielsen has agreed terms with Fredrikstad for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Kongsvinger have gone to Stromsgodset 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andreas Dybevik 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Simen Hestnes gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simen Hestnes has just signed for Kongsvinger, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Fredrikstad 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Kongsvinger — 7.93
1 for Simen Hestnes, marked 7.93, 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kongsvinger offered $1.8M; Fredrikstad 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Simen Hestnes commits to Kongsvinger for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kongsvinger have gone to Ranheim 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kongsvinger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andreas Dybevik 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lillestrom have kept their man, and Kongsvinger go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adrian Hansen 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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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Armand Øverby, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.78
A mark of 7.78 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kongsvinger asked and Viking said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Andreas Dybevik 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sondre Norheim was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Armand Øverby has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Kongsvinger, 1‑0 the final word against Skeid in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kongsvinger, another week without a signature from Andreas Dybevik.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Kongsvinger are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.