The Heidenheim Chronicle
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Fiete Arp takes the afternoon — 8.56
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fiete Arp provided it, and the 8.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Fiete Arp 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Frank Feller stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Frank Feller and Heidenheim agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Omar Traoré 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Jürgen Arnold joins the Heidenheim first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jürgen Arnold is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Dec 2026
Heidenheim promote Gregor Schmidt from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gregor Schmidt 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Julian Niehues
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julian Niehues, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Mathias Honsak
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Dec 2026
Fiete Arp rescues a point for Heidenheim
It needed Fiete Arp to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Köln, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout The form table has caught Jonas Föhrenbach
- The dugout Sebastian Berger on the point
- The dugout Heidenheim keep their word to Leonidas Stergiou