From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Oddevold lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market2 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oddevold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Oddevold have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match31 Oct 2026
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Alexi Pitu 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.
Squad2 Nov 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 Oddevold this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Alex Mortensen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Oddevold.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Alex Mortensen at his very best
Marked 8.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Oddevold.
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.
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Gabriel Sandberg gets it from the manager
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexander Almqvist damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oddevold can pretend not to have heard.
Market26 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oddevold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Oddevold
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexi Pitu 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 Oddevold this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Oddevold training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Engelbrektsson 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match24 Oct 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Alex Mortensen had Oddevold level again within 1 minutes, and Helsingborg never got to play with a lead at all.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Lukas Nennesson
“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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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Oddevold lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market19 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oddevold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Oddevold's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Oddevold has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Oddevold
Alexi Pitu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Oddevold training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Engelbrektsson 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 dugout19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Oddevold caught on 89 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Falkenberg scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
7.86, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Oddevold had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad19 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and Oddevold 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Oddevold lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market12 Oct 2026
Daniel Krezić has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oddevold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alexander Almqvist 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Oddevold
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexi Pitu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Johan Albin and Oddevold agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Oddevold, another week without a signature from Lukas Nennesson.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Falkenberg next, and one man in the Oddevold dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Oddevold money.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oddevold lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market5 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oddevold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Oddevold
4 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Morten Sætra commits to Oddevold for another 4 years.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Oddevold
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Oddevold can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Alexi Pitu 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
Words at Oddevold training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Engelbrektsson 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 ratings5 Oct 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Alexander Almqvist damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Oddevold is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Alexi Pitu 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 Oddevold this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Oddevold
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Engelbrektsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Oddevold
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hugo Engström, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Morten Sætra 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Joel Claesson after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alexander Almqvist damages knee ligaments — 58 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 58 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexander Almqvist will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oddevold the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 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 Oddevold this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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
A row about effort at Oddevold
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexi Pitu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.28 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Oddevold had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout21 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oddevold lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Morten Sætra
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Morten Sætra will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oddevold the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Oddevold training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexi Pitu 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Onni Helén, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Örgryte, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
York Rafael reaches 200 appearances
200 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.
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Oddevold lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Engelbrektsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oddevold the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Oscar Igličar Berntsson 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alexi Pitu 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Oddevold
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Engelbrektsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 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.
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
Oddevold are still strangers to each other
14 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Alexi Pitu knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Oddevold, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexander Almqvist damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Daniel Krezić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Krezić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oddevold the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oddevold can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Midtjylland is saying, and nobody at Oddevold is enjoying the guessing.
Match29 Aug 2026
Oddevold make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Oddevold have 3 straight wins of it.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jesper Merbom Adolfsson 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Oddevold
Alexander Almqvist and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexi Pitu 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
86 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Oddevold lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexander Almqvist will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oddevold the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Aug 2026
So close: Morten Sætra’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Hammarby moved on, Morten Sætra reports back to Oddevold, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.99, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with FC Midtjylland, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexander Almqvist 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Oddevold
Alexi Pitu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Oddevold
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Engelbrektsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alexander Almqvist damages knee ligaments — 93 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 93 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Oddevold out
Out, 1‑2 to IF Elfsborg, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, 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 9.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oddevold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 19 in, 2 out at Oddevold
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market17 Aug 2026
Oddevold say no — this time
The offer from Varbergs BoIS for Philip Engelbrektsson 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Oddevold
Alexi Pitu 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
Hammarby come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Oddevold did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Sogndal is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Oddevold had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Bodo/Glimt, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Oddevold
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexi Pitu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jesper Merbom Adolfsson 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Morten Sætra
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcus Forsberg 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcus Quaison has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Oddevold
A 0‑4 beating by Sandviken was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad3 Aug 2026
141 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Oddevold know exactly what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Oddevold
Linus Tornblad 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alexander Almqvist 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Oddevold asked and IK Sirius said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The formation has left Robin Book behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Oddevold will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Oddevold 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.
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 Oddevold, another week without a signature from Morten Sætra.