Norrköping W v Kristianstad W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Damallsvenskan (W) · Sunday, 16 August 2026. Final score 0–5 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 59% 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 goals59%41%Over
Over 3.5 goals35%65%no pick
Both teams to score54%46%Yes

The result model puts Norrköping W at 38%, the draw at 27% and Kristianstad W at 35%, from expected goals of 1.39 and 1.32.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Damallsvenskan (W) has produced over 2.5 goals in 65% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Norrköping W have 5 in 13 this season (3 of 7 at home), Kristianstad W 9 in 13 (4 of 6 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 56% and 67%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 13 and 13 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 58% and 65%.

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 62%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 67%. 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 51%, from expected goals of 1.39 for Norrköping W and 1.32 for Kristianstad W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 59%.

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
Norrköping W1338%23%46%
Kristianstad W1369%54%54%

Head to head

9 May 26Kristianstad W 2–2 Norrköping WO2.5
11 Oct 25Kristianstad W 0–1 Norrköping WU2.5
17 May 25Norrköping W 1–4 Kristianstad WO2.5
11 Aug 24Kristianstad W 1–3 Norrköping WO2.5
5 Jul 24Norrköping W 2–0 Kristianstad WU2.5
17 Sept 23Kristianstad W 2–1 Norrköping WO2.5

More: Norrköping W season stats · Kristianstad 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.