The Union Berlin Chronicle
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Woo-Yeong Jeong runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Andrej Ilić scores twice — 8.79
Two goals and a mark of 8.79 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Lennart Karl: 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.” Union Berlin have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Union Berlin
Gabri Veiga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Woo-Yeong Jeong 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Union Berlin promote Felix Wolf from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felix Wolf 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Robert Schuster joins the Union Berlin first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Schuster is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match10 Oct 2026
Union Berlin caught on 93 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then St. Pauli scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Union Berlin are still strangers to each other
16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- Match Andrej Ilić rescues a point for Union Berlin
- The dugout No hiding place for Livan Burcu
- The dugout Tobias Böhm: “We have to be better”