Marked for Philipp Lienhart
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Masoud Beiranvand was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hamburger SV made SC Freiburg work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at SC Freiburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Günter is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the SC Freiburg support went home talking about one name.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
10 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Badredine Bouanani is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Back issues
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what SC Freiburg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Hakim Guenouche gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hakim Guenouche has just signed for SC Freiburg, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lukas Kübler in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SC Freiburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Mainz 05 have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mio Backhaus. The answer from SC Freiburg has not changed — yet.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jan Wagner has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcel Köhler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
No investment in the facilities at SC Freiburg
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Philipp Lienhart keeps the shirt for now, at SC Freiburg's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and SC Freiburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jannik Huth has left for Mainz 05 in a $1.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yuito Suzuki commits to SC Freiburg for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SC Freiburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Niklas Beste gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.