The Hannover 96 Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enzo Leopold gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Enzo Leopold has just signed for Hannover 96, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hannover 96 rebuffed over Isac Lidberg
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Darmstadt 98 have kept their man, and Hannover 96 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Benedikt Pichler goes
Luzern paid $3.4M and Hannover 96 took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Callum Wilson is a medical away from Hannover 96
The deal with Brentford is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Enzo Leopold returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Enzo Leopold is a Hannover 96 player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 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 FC Augsburg. Hannover 96 are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
William Kokolo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” William Kokolo commits to Hannover 96 for another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thomas Thomas joins the Hannover 96 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Thomas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hannover 96 count the cost of losing Husseyn Chakroun
36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Squad Virgil Ghiţă in a row with a teammate
- Transfer targets Hannover 96 try to borrow Hobie Verhulst
- The dugout Stefán Teitur Þórðarson gets it from the manager