Marked for Dorian Hanza
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match12 Dec 2026
Musiliu Odekunle wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Musiliu Odekunle found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and OB went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market14 Dec 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 Viborg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oliver Bundgaard and Viborg agree another 4 years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Jeppe Grønning 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Sami Jalal
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Dec 2026
6 unbeaten for Viborg
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Viborg did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bilal Brahimi 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.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Musiliu Odekunle has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Musiliu Odekunle’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Viborg.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jeppe Grønning
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Viborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market16 Nov 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 Viborg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Jeppe Grønning 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.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
Viborg supporters have found a favourite in Charly Nouck
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Charly Nouck has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Esbjerg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Charly Nouck 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Viborg
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Viborg support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jeppe Grønning damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match19 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Viborg
Position 10 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market19 Oct 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 Viborg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Daniel Anyembe: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Viborg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bilal Brahimi 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over FC Nordsjaelland, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Sami Jalal
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Yonis Njoh 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.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jeppe Grønning
96 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Viborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Sep 2026
Viborg sink to position 11
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market21 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Jeppe Grønning 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Daniel Orduz gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniel Orduz has just signed for Viborg, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bilal Brahimi 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑2 to SonderjyskE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Dorian Hanza talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Viborg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Viborg
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Viborg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Thomas Jørgensen 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Viborg
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bilal Brahimi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Dorian Hanza's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mads Søndergaard, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
4.44 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Filip Đukić is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Filip Đukić: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
Viborg through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over OB, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Sami Jalal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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 Viborg can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Viborg's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Viborg has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Viborg
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Aug 2026
FC Midtjylland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
The kick that got away from Tim Freriks
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Market
The Dorian Hanza talk will not go away