From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
The fee is $750.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. IFK Norrkoping drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Orebro spend $750.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $750.0K for Leo Lif, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Orebro asked and Egnatia Rrogozhinë said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to FC Nordsjaelland: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The formation has left Leo Lif behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Orebro will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
An offer of $750.0K for Leo Lif
Orebro have gone to IFK Norrkoping 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 targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IFK Norrkoping have kept their man, and Orebro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Molde: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Nobody at Orebro 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.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Buster Runheim is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dino Salihović and Orebro agree another 4 years.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Erman Hrastovina, and the manager let it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Orebro will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Antonio Yakoub 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Martin Ellingsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Orebro say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Samuel Wikman has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabian Wahlström and Orebro agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Orebro, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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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Uneasy
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Buster Runheim: 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.” Orebro have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 20 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Orebro, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market4 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The name of Martin Ellingsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Orebro say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
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The dugout
Hasan Dana has become a man the manager trusts
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Manasse Kusu
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Uneasy
The dugout21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Martin Ellingsen plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Jakub Ojrzyński has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
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Uneasy
Market14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Ellingsen, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erik McCue commits to Orebro for another 4 years.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
At 20 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Antonio Yakoub
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Liam Uddfalk Lund and Orebro agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Orebro will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market7 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Orebro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Martin Ellingsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Orebro say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Erman Hrastovina 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Hampus Söderström plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 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 Orebro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Buster Runheim commits to Orebro for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hampus Söderström trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Christopher Redenstrand. Orebro will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Martin Ellingsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Orebro say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.74 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for Orebro
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Djurgarden were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Djurgarden, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Nils Larsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anton Guidetti on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Market19 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 Orebro can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Orebro's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Orebro has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
Orebro cannot find the net
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Kalle Holmberg
Nobody at Orebro is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Orebro?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against GIF Sundsvall? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Orebro
5 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Orebro
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Orebro can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Oct 2026
Halmstad left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emil Krafth has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nils Kulusevski 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Antonio Yakoub
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Orebro are still strangers to each other
7 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Orebro
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Orebro
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Orebro can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Buster Runheim is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Giuseppe Bovalina is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 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.” Anton Guidetti chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Antonio Yakoub knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antonio Yakoub trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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
3 matches without a goal for Orebro
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hampus Söderström, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 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 0‑1 Anton Guidetti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad28 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 Orebro will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Steady
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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
7.38, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Orebro had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ahmed Yasin beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nobody at Orebro 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.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
IFK Goteborg next, and one man in the Orebro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hampus Söderström trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. John Guidetti 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mattias Olsen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Orebro are still strangers to each other
7 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Giuseppe Bovalina
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Match12 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Orebro?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Atvidaberg? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over BK Hacken, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
7.78, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Orebro had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anton Guidetti on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Martin Ellingsen has moved up it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Hampus Söderström. Orebro will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
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Crisis
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Olimpija Ljubljana keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Falkenberg left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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 0‑2 Anton Guidetti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Buster Runheim, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
BK Hacken next, and one man in the Orebro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings24 Aug 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.
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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Liam Uddfalk Lund has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Orebro have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets24 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Orebro, 2‑1 the final word against Gefle in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anton Guidetti on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to John Stenberg, and the manager let it.
Squad24 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Orebro
1‑3 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
7 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Orebro asked and Blackburn Rovers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at Orebro
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Orebro
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Orebro are no longer polite ones.
Market17 Aug 2026
Martin Ellingsen arrives at Orebro in a $240.0K statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Orebro have paid $240.0K for Martin Ellingsen, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Gefle will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Theodor Hansemon has pre-agreed a move to Orebro, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakub Ojrzyński, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Match
A bad afternoon for Orebro against Hammarby
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Ahmed Yasin
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Squad
7 new faces, and Orebro are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with AIK; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
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 Orebro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonio Yakoub commits to Orebro for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Manasse Kusu beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktor Lustig 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Linus Olsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. John Krafth has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
6 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kalle Holmberg and Orebro agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to AIK 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Orebro asked and IK Start said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Antonio Yakoub asks for a word with the manager
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Jakub Ojrzyński