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Feature - The Rise and Potential Fall of Ostersunds FK. Remember them?

It’s February 2018 and Ostersunds FK are 2-0 up after 23 mins at Arsenal in the Europa League, where they are trying to overturn a 0-3 first-leg deficit.

Unsurprisingly they ultimately fail. Saed Kolasinac calms Arsenal nerves with a goal in the second-half. Ostersunds hold on to win the meeting, 2-1.

It was a fitting end to a 14-game Euro-Odyssey during which the small northern Swedish club became the first from its country to advance beyond the Europa League group stages.
Only eight years previously Ostersunds, created through an amalgam of local clubs in 1996, found themselves for the first time in the fourth tier of Swedish football.