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

Damallsvenskan (W) · Saturday, 5 September 2026. Final score 2–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 58% 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 goals58%42%Over
Over 3.5 goals35%65%no pick
Both teams to score49%51%No

The result model puts Hammarby W at 67%, the draw at 21% and Norrköping W at 12%, from expected goals of 1.99 and 0.7.

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. Hammarby W have 10 in 16 this season (7 of 8 at home), Norrköping W 6 in 16 (2 of 7 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 54%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 16 and 16 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 65% and 56%.

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 50%, from expected goals of 1.99 for Hammarby W and 0.7 for Norrköping W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 58%.

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 W1663%38%44%
Norrköping W1638%25%44%

Head to head

25 Jul 26Norrköping W 0–4 Hammarby WO2.5
2 Nov 25Hammarby W 4–0 Norrköping WO2.5
22 Jun 25Norrköping W 2–2 Hammarby WO2.5
29 Jun 24Norrköping W 0–3 Hammarby WO2.5
8 May 24Hammarby W 2–0 Norrköping WU2.5
11 Nov 23Norrköping W 0–2 Hammarby WU2.5

More: Hammarby W season stats · Norrköping 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.