The Union Berlin Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Union Berlin did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Union Berlin
Rani Khedira 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Union Berlin
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
Words at Union Berlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Woo-Yeong Jeong 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Union Berlin promote Richard Braun from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Richard Braun 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
Stephan Vogel steps up from the Union Berlin academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephan Vogel 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Hans Simon joins the Union Berlin first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hans Simon 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
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 30596. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tom Rothe stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tom Rothe and Union Berlin agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Squad A wage question at Union Berlin
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Lucas Fernandes