The Heidenheim Chronicle
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Mathias Honsak beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alessandro Vogt 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Heidenheim cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Florian Simon joins the Heidenheim first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Florian Simon is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Heidenheim
Adrian Beck and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mario Vušković
“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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Mathieu Deplagne
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Half-satisfied: Thomas Berger on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The formation has left Santiago de Ossa behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Heidenheim will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Heidenheim?
- The dugout Mathieu Deplagne knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Tim Siersleben faces his old club