31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process
13 Edition

The Tromso Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

57 days out for Sebastian Mihai Asan after a fracture

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

Match

Tromso beaten on the continent

0‑1 against Malmo FF, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.

Match

Tromso come up short against Rosenborg

Rosenborg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No place for Viktor Ekblom on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Tromso pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

Sander Svensson faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sander Svensson after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Jakob Haugaard has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Adrian Evensen-Jensen 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Troy Nyhammer

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Casper Øyvann has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Tromso lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Tromso Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tromso strike at the death to beat Stabaek

There were 85 minutes on the clock and Stabaek had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Tromso did not stop to explain themselves.

Match

Tromso are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Tromso end the wait against Stabaek

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Player ratings

Lars Olden Larsen 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.

Squad

Troy Nyhammer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Troy Nyhammer and Tromso agree another 5 years.

Match

Tromso see off Stabaek

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

Player ratings

Vegard Erlien was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.27. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Ruben Yttergård Jenssen

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Tromso told Ruben Yttergård Jenssen something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Tromso

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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Tromso Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Stromsgodset end the Tromso run at 15

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 15 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Match

The wait goes on for Tromso

7 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Tromso against Stromsgodset

1‑2 to Stromsgodset, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Jesper Grundt was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

The dugout

Sander Svensson: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexander Warneryd

“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 dugout

Martin Linnes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Martin Linnes is on it.

The dugout

David Edvardsson 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.

Market

The Viktor Ekblom question follows Tromso around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Viktor Ekblom’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

10 Edition

The Tromso Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tromso do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Tromso came through the finding-out well against Estoril Praia.

Match

15 unbeaten for Tromso

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Tromso did not have in the autumn.

Match

The wait goes on for Tromso

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.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Leon Hien 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Abderrahmane Sarr 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 dugout

The team sheet said everything about Martin Linnes

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Martin Linnes.

Squad

Lars Olden Larsen makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Vegard Erlien gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vegard Erlien is on it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Tromso Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

13 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.

Player ratings

Troy Nyhammer, 20, steals the show — 8.02

Marked 8.02 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.

Match

No end in sight to Tromso's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tromso has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

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

The terraces

Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Troy Nyhammer

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Troy Nyhammer 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.

Match

Tromso caught on 94 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Sarpsborg 08 scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

Tromso share the spoils with Sarpsborg 08

A 2‑2 draw with Sarpsborg 08 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Julian Faye Lund 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Jakob Haugaard 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Tromso Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tromso do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Tromso came through the finding-out well against Slavia Mozyr.

Squad

Jakob Haugaard 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

Tromso through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Rosenborg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

12 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

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

Squad

A move Morgan Arnstad would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Morgan Arnstad is living that version at Tromso, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mathias Tønnessen

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.

Match

Rosenborg snatch it back from Tromso

A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief

7 Edition

The Tromso Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Mads Mikkelsen, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94

A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Martin Linnes yet — 7.95

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

9 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.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Lars Olden Larsen — 7.60

Marked 7.60. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mads Mikkelsen

At 18 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.

Match

Tromso see off Mjondalen

Three points for Tromso, 2‑0 the final word against Mjondalen in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Tromso promote Stian Lien from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stian Lien 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.

Market

Tromso promote Thomas Hauge from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Hauge 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Tromso Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Viktor Ekblom scores twice — 8.75

Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sander Innvær

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

8 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.

Squad

Ludvig Gjertsen out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Ludvig Gjertsen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

Late, late show earns Tromso a point

Minute 86, against Odd, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Leon Hien

“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.

Match

Honours even between Tromso and Odd

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Alexander Warneryd makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

A step back for Mathias Tønnessen at Tromso

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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Tromso Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Tromso throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Sandefjord the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Tromso will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

Both of them Daniel Braut's — 8.55

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Troy Nyhammer 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tromso

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Zakaria Mugeese

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Jakob Haugaard

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Vegard Erlien

Marked 8.17 — 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.

Match

Tromso share the spoils with Sandefjord

A 2‑2 draw with Sandefjord leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Sander Svensson on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sander Svensson after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

4 Edition

The Tromso Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Vegard Erlien sends Tromso through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Vegard Erlien obliged against Stromsgodset. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Tromso.

Player ratings

Troy Nyhammer beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.20

A mark of 8.20 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tromso

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Transfer targets

Stromsgodset tell Tromso: Marcus Mehnert is not for sale

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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Vegard Erlien

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.96, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The terraces

Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Jesper Grundt

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

Squad

13 new faces, and Tromso 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.

Squad

Mathias Linnes signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathias Linnes and Tromso agree another 3 years.

In brief

3 Edition

The Tromso Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jakob Haugaard 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

Tromso through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Viking, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

No mercy from Tromso

Aalesund will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tromso were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vegard Erlien

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Both of them Ruben Yttergård Jenssen's — 7.97

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.97, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Vintage Martin Linnes — 7.90

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.

Boardroom

Tromso close the window on a squad of their own making

14 in and 1 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.

Market

Tromso spend $220.0K to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $220.0K has been paid because Julian Faye Lund is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kristian Eriksen

Tromso asked and Molde said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

2 Edition

The Tromso Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Martin Ove Roseth

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

Market

Tromso say no — this time

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

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Julian Faye Lund

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tromso have done the hard part with Bodo/Glimt, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

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

Squad

Daniel Braut signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Braut commits to Tromso for another 5 years.

The terraces

Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Sander Innvær

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Sander Innvær 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.

Market

One of our own: Jens Svensson joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jens Svensson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Erling Berge steps up from the Tromso academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Erling Berge 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.

Market

One of our own: Jonas Haaland joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonas Haaland is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Tromso Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Jakob Haugaard keeps Tromso in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Tromso say no — this time

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

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Iker Muñoz

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

Squad

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ruben Yttergård Jenssen and Tromso agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

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

Transfer targets

Tromso bid $150.0K for Julian Faye Lund

The offer went to Bodo/Glimt 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.

Match

Vegard Erlien the difference as Tromso beat Bodo/Glimt

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vegard Erlien. 2‑1 against Bodo/Glimt, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Ole Kristian Lauvli attracts admirers

The name of Ole Kristian Lauvli has come up in conversations Tromso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The terraces

One of their own: Alexander Warneryd

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.

In brief