Örebro Södra Women hosted Huskvarna Women in the Elitettan regular season on 22 August, and the visitors came away with a 2-0 win. The match marked round fifteen of the league campaign, and the result shifted the gap between the two sides in the table. By then, Huskvarna sat seventh with twenty-two points while Örebro Södra had dropped lower with nineteen.
The opening goal came early, when M. Nilsson found the net in the third minute. It was a quick strike that put the visitors ahead and set the tone for the rest of the half. L. Lundgren doubled the lead in the nineteenth minute, and the hosts had to chase the game from that point on.
The substitutions began in the second half, with Örebro Södra making changes as they tried to get back into the match. I. Afram and A. Hedman were brought on in the fifty-eighth minute, only for both to be withdrawn again in the sixtieth — a rare double swap that suggested frustration. T. Glemdal Bergkvist and A. Hallberg followed in the sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh minutes, each pair cancelling the other out.
Örebro Södra kept searching for answers, bringing on F. Lindwall and N. Torngren in the seventy-second minute, then M. Regnas in the seventy-third and seventy-fourth. Huskvarna responded with F. Ekstrand and N. Lundberg in the eighty-third and eighty-fourth. The yellow cards came late: C. Eriksson in the eighty-fourth, E. Michelsson in ninety-one, and a third card in ninety-one plus eleven.
The standings told their own story. Örebro Södra had five wins, four draws and seven losses from sixteen games, while Huskvarna sat just above them with six victories and six defeats. The three-point gap was small, but the confidence after a clean sheet went a long way.
Huskvarna's recent form had been mixed — a 1-0 win over Älgsjö Women, a 9-0 thrashing of Ulvsaker Women, but also losses to Umeå and KIF Örebro DFF. Örebro Södra's run included a heavy 7-1 victory against Täby Women, yet they had failed to score against KIF Örebro DFF on the previous weekend. This result meant the visitors had now ended their unbeaten run against the hosts.