17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process
11 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Simen Bolkan Nordli breaks a bone — 119 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg

The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Rosenborg

Óscar Valentín 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Aleksander Borgersen

At 17 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.

Match

Rosenborg make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Markus Naglestad stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Markus Naglestad and Rosenborg agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Bodo/Glimt snatch it back from Rosenborg

A goal on 95 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Dino Islamović

7.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Rosenborg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Simen Bolkan Nordli out for 127 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rosenborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Rosenborg up to position 3

21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Only the photograph left for Santeri Väänänen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santeri Väänänen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Rosenborg

Ole Selnæs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

The step up is real for Lúkas Petersson

At 22 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Rosenborg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óscar Valentín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Rosenborg find a way past Lillestrom

Lillestrom made Rosenborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Looking ahead

Rosenborg and Bodo/Glimt meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

In brief

9 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

135 days out for Simen Bolkan Nordli after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rosenborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg

The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Emil Ceïde beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mikkel Ceïde

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikkel Ceïde will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rosenborg

Ole Selnæs 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.

Squad

Óscar Valentín 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Rosenborg

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

The dugout

No hiding place for Iver Fossum

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iver Fossum, and the manager let it.

Squad

14 new faces, and Rosenborg 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

142 days out for Simen Bolkan Nordli after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rosenborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Leopold Wahlstedt is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Leopold Wahlstedt: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for Rosenborg

A 1‑1 win over Sarpsborg 08, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Mark Mampassi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rosenborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Mark Mampassi signs for Valerenga while still at Rosenborg

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mark Mampassi has agreed terms with Valerenga for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Rosenborg

Ole Selnæs was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Emil Ceïde beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The terraces

Rosenborg supporters have found a favourite in Victor Lind

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Victor Lind 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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Simen Bolkan Nordli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

8 unbeaten for Rosenborg

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.

Market

Tomáš Nemčík wants more than Rosenborg are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Ole Selnæs 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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Rosenborg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óscar Valentín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

One of those days for Emil Ceïde

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.49, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Óscar Valentín in the eights

A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Dino Islamović at his very best

Marked 8.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rosenborg.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Rosenborg had all but put away. Stabaek will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

In brief

6 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jesper Reitan-Sunde at 20 — 8.94

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jesper Reitan-Sunde did not need any: 8.94, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Emil Ceïde was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Squad

6 saves: Leopold Wahlstedt was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Only the photograph left for Santeri Väänänen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santeri Väänänen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Óscar Valentín wants more than Rosenborg are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Boardroom

Rosenborg to lose Santeri Väänänen for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santeri Väänänen 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.

Match

7 unbeaten for Rosenborg

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at Rosenborg

Ole Selnæs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Óscar Valentín 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Mikkel Ceïde

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikkel Ceïde will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rosenborg

Ole Selnæs 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Rosenborg 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.

Boardroom

Kristian Eriksen will join Rosenborg for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Kristian Eriksen has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Rosenborg have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Market

The Amin Chiakha conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: KV Oostende will make the call about Amin Chiakha this week. Rosenborg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Rosenborg see off Viking

Three points for Rosenborg, 1‑0 the final word against Viking in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

A row about effort at Rosenborg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mathias Kjølø was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mathias Kjølø

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Kjølø, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Simen Bolkan Nordli stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.96 on the card, and the Rosenborg support went home talking about one name.

In brief

4 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leopold Wahlstedt decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Amin Chiakha sends Rosenborg through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Amin Chiakha obliged against Tromso. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Rosenborg.

Player ratings

Victor Lind was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 30. 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.

Market

Rosenborg spend $6.6M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $6.6M has been paid because Óscar Valentín is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Player ratings

Amin Chiakha, 20, steals the show — 7.64

Marked 7.64 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Rosenborg

Ole Selnæs 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.

Squad

Tomáš Nemčík 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 targets

Rosenborg rebuffed over Joe Whitworth

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wigan Athletic have kept their man, and Rosenborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Aleksander Borgersen gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Rosenborg march on in the cup

Mjondalen are out and Rosenborg go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Transfer targets

Rosenborg agree $6.6M for Óscar Valentín

The clubs have shaken hands with Rayo Vallecano; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Match

Rosenborg run riot against Haugesund

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 ratings

A brace, and Dino Islamović takes the afternoon — 8.95

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dino Islamović provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Simen Bolkan Nordli beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Mads Bomholt, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60

A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Rosenborg say no — this time

The offer from Valerenga for Mikkel Ceïde was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Santeri Väänänen delivers — 7.87

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Santeri Väänänen scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Aslak Fonn Witry moves on

Lillestrom pay $2.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

2 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Rosenborg tear Mjondalen apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Mjondalen, and it could have been more.

Market

Amin Chiakha turns Aalborg down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Player ratings

Dávid Ďuriš scores twice — 8.93

Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

An offer of $6.0M for Óscar Valentín

Rosenborg have gone to Rayo Vallecano 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.

Market

Lillestrom join the queue for Aslak Fonn Witry

Add another name to the list: Lillestrom have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Aslak Fonn Witry. The answer from Rosenborg has not changed — yet.

Boardroom

Elias Hovdahl Sandrød signs for Lillestrom while still at Rosenborg

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Elias Hovdahl Sandrød has agreed terms with Lillestrom for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Emil Ceïde signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Ceïde and Rosenborg agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Rosenborg make their move for Vetle Auklend

$320.0K on the table at Viking. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Rosenborg

Victor Lind and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

1 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Emil Ceïde runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Rosenborg say no — this time

The offer from IF Elfsborg for Amin Chiakha 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.

Market

Tomáš Nemčík wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Rosenborg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Ole Selnæs signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ole Selnæs commits to Rosenborg for another 2 years.

Squad

Leopold Wahlstedt 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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

No deal for Zack Steffen at that price

Rosenborg offered $400.0K; Colorado Rapids 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.

Squad

Ole Selnæs 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.

Match

Rosenborg come up short against Odd

Odd left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Noah Sahsah attracts admirers

The name of Noah Sahsah has come up in conversations Rosenborg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief