Fliseryds IF 0-7 Fågelfors IF
Swedish regional division 6 (Högsby), 8th tier
Thursday 4 June 2026, 19:00 kick-off
Björkvallen, Fliseryd
Crowd count: 44
Another game in the lowest level of football in this part of Sweden. The pleasant village of Fliseryd has just over 700 inhabitants and the earliest record of the place is from the14th century. It's about 20 km from the Baltic coast, is surrounded by forest and one of the main rivers in the region, Emån, flows through the village. The football team has no major achievements as far as I know but of course play a vital role in village life with football in the summer and floorball (innebandy) in the winter. They have had a tough start to the season, bottom of the league with 5 straight defeats, 5 goals scored and 23 conceded.
The visitors today, Fågelfors, sit in mid-table with 9 points from their 5 games. Their history goes back over 100 years and they have also played most of their time in the lower reaches. Since this is a very local league the teams don't have far to travel for their matches.
The ground
A fairly typical set-up for the village clubs round here. A pavilion, changing rooms and kiosk on one side as well as a building that I suspect houses groundkeeping equipment and suchlike. Spectator facilities include several picnic tables near the touchline. On the opposite side are the dugouts whilst the ends are open. The crowd were probably mostly family and friends of the players and there were plenty children playing and running around. Very relaxed in other words. The kiosk sold the usual hotdogs and coffee and full marks to them for finding a tea bag for me!
The match
An evening to forget for the home team as Fågelfors won easily and could have scored more. The weather was overcast and we had rain later in the first half. I spent the forst few minutes wondering which team was which but soon worked it out - Fliseryd in black and Fågelfors in red. The visitors took the lead after 10 minutes with a header from Johansson after a free kick on the left. That became a two goal lead after the tall Emil Lind wasunmarked on the right of the box and slotted home. The hosts had one or two promising attacks but had no power up front whereas the visitors were faster and had several good chances to increase the lead. The home goalkeeper had to go off after taking a bad knock and the reserve keeper (or maybe an outside player forced to take on the role) came on.
At half time there was still some hope for Fliseryd but that soon disappeared as the guests scored at regular intervals with Patrick Karlsson scoring a second half hat-trick. This win will certainly give them a good chance to be in the promotion race later in the year. My hopes of seeing a consolation goal for Fliseryd were sadly in vain and they are now anchored at the bottom of the league. We did however get a few moments of evening sunshine towards the end.
