Jan Schöppner

Defensive Midfielder - Heidenheim
16 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 65 Awards Matches History

Marked for Jan Schöppner

24 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Jan 2027

A one-man rearguard from Diant Ramaj

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.

Market11 Jan 2027

Heidenheim sell Benedikt Gimber for $5.9M

Benedikt Gimber has left for Mainz 05 in a $5.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Luca Kerber keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Heidenheim may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market11 Jan 2027

Ahmed Azaouagh asks to leave Heidenheim

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market11 Jan 2027

Heidenheim say no — this time

The offer from Perugia for Frank Feller was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Heidenheim

Diant Ramaj 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.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Budu Zivzivadze in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

A masterclass from Christian Conteh

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tom Trybull gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Nov 2026

Diant Ramaj keeps Heidenheim in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match31 Oct 2026

6 matches without a win for Heidenheim

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Heidenheim are no longer polite ones.

Market2 Nov 2026

Niklas Dorsch wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Heidenheim hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Heidenheim

Eren Dinkçi 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.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Patrick Mainka

Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Budu Zivzivadze

Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Marvin Pieringer in the eights

A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

105% of the income goes out in wages at Heidenheim

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match31 Oct 2026

Heidenheim share the spoils with RB Leipzig

A 2‑2 draw with RB Leipzig leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

10 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Heidenheim

Diant Ramaj 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Whatever happens, Heidenheim do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 178% of everything Heidenheim earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Leonidas Stergiou

“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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Heidenheim release $2.0M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Match3 Oct 2026

Honours even between Heidenheim and St. Pauli

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Arijon Ibrahimović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market5 Oct 2026

Liel brings the grey hairs Heidenheim lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market5 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at Heidenheim

Hélder Ribeiro arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

6 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A defender's afternoon for Jan Schöppner

Defensive actions: 30. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Patrick Mainka shuts the door

Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Benedikt Gimber shuts the door

Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Heidenheim

Eren Dinkçi 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Mikkel Kaufmann sends Heidenheim past Bayer Leverkusen

It finished 1‑0, and it was Mikkel Kaufmann’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Heidenheim.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Mikkel Kaufmann in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Wages eat 122% of everything Heidenheim earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Adrian Beck

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Beck, and the manager let it.

Market7 Sep 2026

Tom Trybull brings the grey hairs Heidenheim lacked

At 33, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief