The Heidenheim Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Heidenheim rebuffed over Christoph Baumgartner
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RB Leipzig have kept their man, and Heidenheim go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Budu Zivzivadze attracts admirers
The name of Budu Zivzivadze has come up in conversations Heidenheim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kacper Potulski due for a Heidenheim medical
Everything agreed with Mainz 05, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Patrick Mainka signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Mainka and Heidenheim agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mikkel Kaufmann wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Heidenheim can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market10 Aug 2026
Florian Becker steps up from the Heidenheim academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Florian Becker has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Sebastian Roth joins the Heidenheim first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sebastian Roth is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Heidenheim promote Florian Roth from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Florian Roth 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Heidenheim
Michael Heule and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The dugout Patrick Mainka knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Mathias Honsak has seen what the next man earns
- The terraces The glare is on Steven Benda