2016 Östersunds FK season

Östersunds

2016 season
Chairman	Daniel Kindberg
Manager	Graham Potter
Stadium	Jämtkraft Arena
Allsvenskan	TBA
Svenska Cupen	3rd in Group 1
Top goalscorer	League: Walid Atta (2 goals) All: Walid Atta Saman Ghoddos Alhaji Gero (2 goals each)
Highest home attendance	7,371 (7 April 2016 vs AIK, Allsvenskan)
Lowest home attendance	671 (6 March 2016 vs AFC United, Svenska Cupen)
Average home league attendance	5,331 (in Allsvenskan) 4,166 (in all competitions) [1]
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The 2016 season is Östersunds' 1st season in the top flight of Swedish football and 19th year in existence as a football club.^[2] They entered this season as a newly promoted side after finishing second in the 2015 Superettan, and will participate in the Svenska Cupen. The season covers the period from 1 January 2016 to 1 November 2016.

Club

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Director of Football	Daniel Kindberg
Head Coach	Graham Potter
Assistant Coach	Billy Reid
Assistant Coach	Björn Hamberg
Goalkeeper Coach	Linus Eriksson
Senior Opposition Scout	Kyle Macaulay
Physiotherapist	Frida Eklund
Physiotherapist	Jenny Larsson
Pilates Instructor	Rachel Potter
International Head Coach	Bengt Olsson

Source: Östersunds FK

Squad information

First team squad

As of 6 April 2016.^[3]

Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Date of Birth (Age)
Goalkeepers
1	Aly Keita		GK	8 December 1986
27	Jamal Blackman		GK	27 October 1993
77	Haraldur Björnsson		GK	11 January 1989
Defenders
5	Walid Atta		CB / RB	28 August 1986
6	Doug Bergqvist		CB	29 March 1993
14	Bobo Sollander		CB	5 June 1985
19	Dennis Widgren		LB	28 March 1994
24	Ronald Mukiibi		CB	16 September 1991
25	Samuel Mensah		CB / RB	19 May 1989
31	Sotirios Papagiannopoulos		CB	5 September 1990
Midfielders
4	Sebastian Lundbäck		CM	27 May 1996
7	Monday Samuel		LM	12 November 1993
8	Jamie Hopcutt		AM	23 June 1992
12	Ken Sema		RM	30 September 1993
20	Gabriel Somi		LM	24 August 1991
21	Fouad Bachirou		DM	15 April 1990
22	Brwa Nouri		DM	23 January 1987
23	Alex Dyer		DM	1 June 1990
Strikers
9	Emir Smajic		CF	3 February 1989
11	Andrew Stadler		CF	1 May 1988
18	Alhaji Gero		CF	10 October 1993
29	Michael Omoh		CF	29 August 1991
93	Saman Ghoddos		CF	3 November 1993

Transfers

In

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
93	ST	Saman Ghoddos	Syrianska	£56,000	1 January 2016	[4]
25	CB	Samuel Mensah	Örebro	Free	1 January 2016	[5]
20	LM	Gabriel Somi	Syrianska	Free	1 January 2016	[6]
24	CB	Ronald Mukiibi	BK Häcken	Undisclosed	1 January 2016	[7]
12	RM	Ken Sema	Ljungskile	Undisclosed	5 January 2016	[8]
18	ST	Alhaji Gero	Viborg	Free	18 January 2016	[9]
5	CB	Walid Atta	Gençlerbirliği	Free	23 February 2016	[10]

Out

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
—	RM	Moon Seon-min	Djurgårdens	Undisclosed	1 January 2016	[11]
—	RB	James Sinclair	GAIS	Free	1 January 2016
—	CB	Tomáš Peciar	Free Agent	—	1 January 2016
—	LB	Jonathan Azulay	Degerfors	Free	1 January 2016	[12]
—	ST	Dragan Kapcevic	IK Sirius	Free	1 January 2016	[13]
—	LB	Kujtim Bala	IK Sirius	Free	1 January 2016	[14]
—	AM	Linus Sjöberg	Västerås SK	Free	10 February 2016	[15]
—	ST	Taylor Morgan	Tulsa Roughnecks	Free	23 February 2016	[16]
—	CB	Robert Hammarstedt	Piteå IF	Free	3 March 2016	[17]
—	ST	Grace Tanda	Skellefteå	Free	17 March 2016	[18]

Loan in

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned From	Start	End	Source
27	GK	Jamal Blackman	Chelsea	18 March 2016	31 May 2016	[19][20]

Loan out

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned To	Start	End	Source
10	RM	Hosam Aiesh	Varbergs BoIS	31 March 2016	1 December 2016	[21]

Overall transfer activity

Spending Winter: £56,000 Summer: £0 Total: £56,000

Income Winter: £0 Summer: £0 Total: £0

Expenditure Winter: £56,000 Summer: £0 Total: £56,000

Pre-season

Levanger FK v Östersund

23 January 2016	Levanger FK	2–3	Östersund	Trondheim, Norway
	Sondre Aas Stokke	Report	Sema Gero Fretwell	Stadium: Abrahallen (indoors)

UE Cornellà v Östersund

4 February 2016	UE Cornellà	2–3	Östersund	Barcelona, Spain
	Enrique  47' Fran  80' (pen.)	Report	Ghoddos  15' Nouri  37' (pen.) Smajic  54'

Östersund v Ranheim

13 February 2016	Östersund	1–1	Ranheim	Östersund, Sweden
14:00 GMT	Ghoddos  41'	Report	Kvande  37'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 528

GIF Sundsvall v Östersund

19 March 2016	GIF Sundsvall	1–2	Östersund	Sundsvall, Sweden
15:00 GMT	Danielsson  45'	Report	Dyer  14' Ghoddos  28'	Stadium: Norrporten Arena

Everton v Östersund

23 March 2016	Everton	2–1	Östersund	Liverpool, England
13:00 GMT	Mirallas  40' Barry  84'	Report	Mukiibi  36'	Stadium: Finch Farm

Östersund v Dalkurd FF

26 March 2016	Östersund	0–0	Dalkurd FF	Östersund, Sweden
13:00 GMT		Report		Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 432

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record
	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Allsvenskan	7	2	2	3	7	12	−5	28.57
Svenska Cupen	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	33.33
Total	10	3	2	5	10	17	−7	30.00

Last updated: 3 May 2016
Source: Competitions

Allsvenskan

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	Örebro SK	7	4	0	3	15	14	+1	12
8	IFK Göteborg	7	3	2	2	15	12	+3	11
9	Östersunds FK	8	3	2	3	8	12	−4	11
10	Helsingborgs IF	7	3	1	3	11	16	−5	10
11	Hammarby IF	7	2	3	2	13	12	+1	9

Updated to match(es) played on 7 May 2016. Source: svenskfotboll.se (Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
7	2	2	3	7	12	−5	8	1	0	2	4	7	−3	1	2	1	3	5	−2

Last updated: 23 May 2016.
Source: Allsvenskan

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	L	W	W	D	L	L
Position	11	13	8	3	5	10	13

Last updated: 3 May 2016.
Source: Statto
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Score overview

      Win       Draw       Loss

Opposition	Home score	Away score	Double
AIK	0–2
Djurgårdens		0–3
Elfsborg
Falkenbergs		2–1
Gefle		0–0
Göteborg
Häcken	2–1
Hammarby		1–1
Helsingborgs
Jönköpings Södra
Kalmar
Malmö
Norrköping
Örebro	2–4

Matches

      Win       Draw       Loss       Upcoming fixture

Hammarby v Östersund

4 April 2016 1	Hammarby	1–1	Östersund	Stockholm
18:00 GMT	Batan  11' Sætra  14' Hallberg  16' Alex  58' Rômulo  76'	Report	Ghoddos  35' Papagiannopoulos  42' Somi  56' Dyer  62'	Stadium: Tele2 Arena Attendance: 31,756 Referee: Bojan Pandzic

Östersund v AIK

7 April 2016 2	Östersund	0–2	AIK	Östersund
18:00 GMT	Papagiannopoulos  59'	Report	Johansson  35' Strandberg  36' Hooiveld  40' Isak  40'  50' Karlsson  77'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 7,371 Referee: Glenn Nyberg

Falkenberg v Östersund

10 April 2016 3	Falkenberg	1–2	Östersund	Falkenberg
16:30 GMT	Svensson  45'+1' Jakobsen  67' Juel-Nielsen  69' Nilsson  90'+2'	Report	Smajic  37' Stadler  40'	Stadium: Falkenbergs IP Attendance: 2,456 Referee: Mohammed Al Hakim

Östersund v Häcken

15 April 2016 4	Östersund	2–1	Häcken	Östersund
18:00 GMT	Mukiibi  5' Nouri  76' (pen.)	Report	Sandberg  13' Abubakari  60'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 4,524 Referee: Jonas Eriksson

Gefle v Östersund

23 April 2016 5	Gefle	0–0	Östersund	Gävle
15:00 GMT	Rauschenberg  28' Skrabb  44'	Report		Stadium: Strömvallen Attendance: 3,078 Referee: Kaspar Sjöberg

Östersund v Örebro

27 April 2016 6	Östersund	2–4	Örebro	Östersund
17:30 GMT	Atta  39'  69' Somi  86' Ghoddos  87'	Report	Holmberg  41'  58' Gustavsson  51'  60'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 4,099 Referee: Patrik Eriksson

Djurgården v Östersund

2 May 2016 7	Djurgården	3–0	Östersund	Stockholm
18:00 GMT	Moon Seon-min  17' Johnson  18' Björkström  30' Faltsetas  49' Ranégie  63'  69'	Report	Nouri  52'	Stadium: Tele2 Arena Attendance: 11,275 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson

Östersund v Kalmar

7 May 2016 8	Östersund	–	Kalmar	Östersund
15:00 GMT		Report		Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena

Svenska Cupen

      Win       Draw       Loss

Norrköping v Östersunds

20 February 2016 Group Stage	Norrköping	4–0	Östersunds	Norrköping
13:00 GMT	Traustason  18'  81' Bärkroth  36' Kujović  72' Telo  82' Enarsson  90'+3'	Report	Gero  14' Papagiannopoulos  62'	Stadium: Nya Parken Attendance: 1,423 Referee: Johan Krantz

Jönköpings Södra v Östersunds

27 February 2016 Group Stage	Jönköpings Södra	1–0	Östersunds	Jönköping
14:00 GMT	Aiesh  17' (o.g.) Fendrich  25' Siwe  45' Smylie  61' Svensson  88'	Report	Mukiibi  66' Ghoddos  69' Omoh  70'	Stadium: Stadsparksvallen Attendance: 344 Referee: Antti Kanerva

Östersunds v AFC United

6 March 2016 Group Stage	Östersunds	3–0	AFC United	Östersund
13:00 GMT	Gero  13', 44' Ghoddos  40'	Report	Buya Turay  36' El Kabir  41'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 671 Referee: Johan Krantz

Statistics

Appearances

No.	Pos.	Name	Allsvenskan		Svenska Cupen		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Aly Keita	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
4	MF	Sebastian Lundbäck	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	Walid Atta	6	2	1	0	7	2	0	0
6	DF	Doug Bergqvist	3 (3)	0	1	0	7	0	0	0
7	MF	Monday Samuel	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
8	MF	Jamie Hopcutt	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	2	0	0	0
9	FW	Emir Smajic	2 (4)	1	1 (1)	0	8	1	0	0
11	FW	Andrew Stadler	3 (1)	1	1 (1)	0	6	1	0	0
12	MF	Ken Sema	5 (2)	0	3	0	10	0	0	0
14	DF	Bobo Sollander	0 (1)	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
18	FW	Alhaji Gero	1 (1)	0	3	2	5	2	1	0
19	DF	Dennis Widgren	7	0	2	0	9	0	0	0
20	MF	Gabriel Somi	3 (1)	0	1 (2)	0	7	0	2	0
21	MF	Fouad Bachirou	6	0	0 (1)	0	7	0	0	0
22	MF	Brwa Nouri	7	1	3	0	10	1	1	0
23	MF	Alex Dyer	7	0	3	0	10	0	1	0
24	DF	Ronald Mukiibi	5 (1)	1	3	0	9	1	1	0
25	DF	Samuel Mensah	0	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	0	0
27	GK	Jamal Blackman	7	0	0	0	7	0	0	0
29	FW	Michael Omoh	2 (2)	0	1 (1)	0	6	0	1	0
31	DF	Sotirios Papagiannopoulos	7	0	2	0	9	0	3	0
77	GK	Haraldur Björnsson	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
93	FW	Saman Ghoddos	6 (1)	1	3	1	10	2	2	0
Players who left the club in August/January transfer window or on loan
10	MF	Hosam Aiesh	0	0	1 (1)	0	2	0	0	0

Last updated: 3 May 2016.
Source: Östersunds FK

Top scorers

The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Rnk	Pos	No.	Player	Allsvenskan	Svenska Cupen	Total
1	DF	5	Walid Atta	2	0	2
	FW	18	Alhaji Gero	0	2	2
	FW	93	Saman Ghoddos	1	1	2
4	FW	9	Emir Smajic	1	0	1
	FW	11	Andrew Stadler	1	0	1
	MF	22	Brwa Nouri	1	0	1
	DF	24	Ronald Mukiibi	1	0	1
Own goals				0	0	0
TOTALS				5	3	8

Last updated: 28 April 2016.
Source: Östersunds FK

Clean sheets

The list is sorted by shirt number when total appearances are equal.

Rnk	No.	Player	Allsvenskan	Svenska Cupen	Total
1	27	Jamal Blackman	1	0	1
	77	Haraldur Björnsson	0	1	1
TOTALS			1	1	2

Last updated: 23 April 2016.
Source: Östersunds FK

Summary

Games played	10 (7 Allsvenskan) (3 Svenska Cupen)
Games won	3 (2 Allsvenskan) (1 Svenska Cupen)
Games drawn	2 (2 Allsvenskan) (0 Svenska Cupen)
Games lost	5 (3 Allsvenskan) (2 Svenska Cupen)
Goals scored	10 (7 Allsvenskan) (3 Svenska Cupen)
Goals conceded	17 (12 Allsvenskan) (5 Svenska Cupen)
Goal difference	–7 (–5 Allsvenskan) (–2 Svenska Cupen)
Clean sheets	2 (1 Allsvenskan) (1 Svenska Cupen)
Yellow cards	12 (7 Allsvenskan) (5 Svenska Cupen)
Red cards	0 (0 Allsvenskan) (0 Svenska Cupen)
Most appearances	10 Appearances (4 Players)
Top scorer	2 (Walid Atta, Alhaji Gero and Saman Ghoddos)
Winning Percentage	Overall: 3/10 (30.00%)

Last updated: 3 May 2016.
Source: Östersunds FK

Awards

Player

No.	Player	Award	Month	Source

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