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

Damallsvenskan (W) · Saturday, 5 September 2026. Final score 2–0 (half-time 2–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 63% 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 goals63%37%Over
Over 3.5 goals37%63%no pick
Both teams to score55%45%Yes

The result model puts Piteå W at 43%, the draw at 25% and Växjö W at 32%, from expected goals of 1.6 and 1.37.

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. Piteå W have 9 in 16 this season (5 of 8 at home), Växjö W 11 in 16 (4 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 61% and 66%.

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 64% and 69%.

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 66%.

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 66%.

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 57%, from expected goals of 1.6 for Piteå W and 1.37 for Växjö W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 63%.

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
Piteå W1656%25%63%
Växjö W1669%38%38%

Head to head

3 May 26Växjö W 1–2 Piteå WO2.5
12 Oct 25Växjö W 1–2 Piteå WO2.5
11 May 25Piteå W 0–1 Växjö WU2.5
14 Sept 24Växjö W 1–0 Piteå WU2.5
14 Apr 24Piteå W 3–2 Växjö WO2.5
17 Sept 23Piteå W 5–2 Växjö WO2.5

More: Piteå W season stats · Växjö 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.