Marked for Brian Beyer
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
29 days out for Mats Hammerich after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vaduz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market6 Sep 2027
Mischa Beeli hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vaduz can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Vaduz close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market6 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonathan de Donno will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vaduz the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
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Squad6 Sep 2027
Kevin Mbabu 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 Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stephan Seiler 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Kevin Mbabu
7.51, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Vaduz had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Antonio Arena named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Antonio Arena is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Sekou Diawara
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Player ratings
Brian Beyer beats them one at a time
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Vaduz's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vaduz has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Vaduz
Position 9 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Vaduz
Niklas Dams and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Mack 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Basel take the points off Vaduz
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Vaduz face Thun in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Niklas Lang
“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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Vaduz
7 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ayo Akinola 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 Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Luca Mack 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Vaduz
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Micai, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vaduz, another week without a signature from Alessandro Micai.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Vaduz close the window on a squad of their own making
11 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Jablonec keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luca Mack 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Vaduz asked and Dynamo Kyiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Brian Beyer was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.15. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dejan Djokic is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Dejan Djokic has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brian Beyer named player of the month
The award goes to Brian Beyer, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 7.86 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Olympiacos is saying, and nobody at Vaduz is enjoying the guessing.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 3‑5, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vaduz leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match29 Aug 2026
8 goals as Vaduz and Zurich go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Vaduz and Zurich, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Legia have kept their man, and Vaduz go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Niklas Dams 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 Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Alessandro Micai
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Player ratings
Ninety minutes of Brian Beyer at his very best
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Squad
Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lugano come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vaduz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vaduz
Ayo Akinola was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Vaduz and Luzern in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match8 Aug 2026
Vaduz get the job done against Luzern
A 4‑2 win over Luzern, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Liridon Berisha commits to Vaduz for another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivo Rodriguez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Noah Steffen 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.91 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Red Bull Salzburg have kept their man, and Vaduz go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Vaduz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ayo Akinola and Vaduz agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ayo Akinola 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 Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Mack 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Brian Beyer. 2‑1 against St. Gallen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad3 Aug 2026
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Stephan Seiler's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Ismaël Konaté is in the works
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Nick Oyekunle is in the works
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The dugout
The view from the dugout