The Heidenheim Chronicle
Match12 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Heidenheim
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Arijon Ibrahimović runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Heidenheim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daley Blind 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jan Schöppner in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Heidenheim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Dec 2026
Heidenheim buy the years ahead of Jan Stein
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Heidenheim keep their word to Sirlord Conteh
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Heidenheim and Köln
- Squad Heidenheim pick somebody else ahead of Marnon Busch
- Player ratings Mikkel Kaufmann changes it off the bench