Hammarby FF v Degerfors IF — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Allsvenskan · Sunday, 19 July 2026. Final score 4–0 (half-time 1–0). 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 goals35%65%no pick
Both teams to score55%45%Yes

The result model puts Hammarby FF at 75%, the draw at 15% and Degerfors IF at 10%, from expected goals of 2.68 and 0.9.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Allsvenskan has produced over 2.5 goals in 53% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Hammarby FF have 7 in 13 this season (5 of 7 at home), Degerfors IF 6 in 12 (2 of 5 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 53% and 52%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 13 and 12 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 54% and 54%.

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 54%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 0%. 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 51%.

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 69%, from expected goals of 2.68 for Hammarby FF and 0.9 for Degerfors IF. 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
Hammarby FF1354%23%54%
Degerfors IF1250%17%58%

Head to head

3 Nov 25Degerfors IF 1–1 Hammarby FFU2.5
26 May 25Hammarby FF 1–0 Degerfors IFU2.5
25 May 23Degerfors IF 2–2 Hammarby FFO2.5
2 Apr 23Hammarby FF 3–1 Degerfors IFO2.5
22 Aug 22Hammarby FF 5–1 Degerfors IFO2.5
21 Apr 22Degerfors IF 0–1 Hammarby FFU2.5

More: Hammarby FF season stats · Degerfors IF season stats · Allsvenskan table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.