The Hannover 96 Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Jonas Sterner asks to leave Hannover 96
“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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hannover 96 rebuffed over Tristan Zobel
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SC Paderborn have kept their man, and Hannover 96 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Vladislav Torop rejects the move
Hannover 96 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at CSKA Moscow, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market24 Aug 2026
Eyes on Jannik Rochelt again
The phone has started ringing about Jannik Rochelt again, and this time the name on the line is SC Freiburg. Hannover 96 are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Hannover 96
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andreas Maier joins the Hannover 96 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Maier 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
Hannover 96 sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 47386 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Benjamin Källman 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mustapha Bundu
“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.
In brief
- Looking ahead Håvard Nielsen faces his old club
- Squad A season on the outside for William Kokolo
- The dugout Denis Husser knocks on the manager’s door