IF Elfsborg – Malmo FF

IF Elfsborg and Malmo FF have met 2 times down the years, and the overall balance favours IF Elfsborg, who have won 1 of those games to 0, with 1 finishing level. On paper it is a fixture with a clear favourite, yet many of the meetings have been decided by the finest of margins. Goals have rarely been in short supply. These games produce 1.5 on average, with 50% of the meetings bringing three or more, and both teams have found the net in 50% of them, which points to an open contest more often than a cagey one. Where the game is played has mattered. IF Elfsborg hold 0-1-0 as hosts in this fixture, and Malmo FF show 0-0-1 at home, underlining how much home comfort can tilt an otherwise close rivalry one way or the other. Form going into the next meeting is worth a glance. IF Elfsborg have won 3 of their last 5 games and are scoring 1.8 a game, while Malmo FF have taken 2 wins from 5, averaging 1, so both arrive with recent evidence to lean on. Taken together, the split works out at roughly 50% for IF Elfsborg, 50% drawn and 0% for Malmo FF. It is the kind of record that rewards the favourite more often than not, without ever making the outcome a certainty. Their most recent meeting came on 23.10.2026, when IF Elfsborg and Malmo FF finished 0–0, the latest marker in a long rivalry. With no date yet set for the next one, that result is where the story currently rests.