AIK W v Piteå W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Damallsvenskan (W) · Sunday, 17 May 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 1–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 57% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals57%43%Over
Over 3.5 goals32%68%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts AIK W at 36%, the draw at 28% and Piteå W at 36%, from expected goals of 1.26 and 1.26.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Damallsvenskan (W) has produced over 2.5 goals in 66% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. AIK W have 2 in 4 this season (0 of 1 at home), Piteå W 3 in 5 (1 of 2 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 64% and 65%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 4 and 5 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 60% and 66%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 63%.

Head to head. These sides have met 4 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 25%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 62%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 46%, from expected goals of 1.26 for AIK W and 1.26 for Piteå W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 57%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
AIK W450%25%50%
Piteå W560%20%60%

Head to head

6 Sept 25AIK W 0–1 Piteå WU2.5
30 Mar 25Piteå W 2–0 AIK WU2.5
1 Jul 24AIK W 0–0 Piteå WU2.5
27 Jun 24Piteå W 5–3 AIK WO2.5
14 Aug 22Piteå W 1–0 AIK WU2.5
9 Jun 22AIK W 1–0 Piteå WU2.5

More: AIK W season stats · Piteå W season stats · Damallsvenskan (W) table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.