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Uneasy
Match28 Oct 2026
Cup progress for Vejle
A 1‑1 win over OB, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vejle can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tobias Haahr is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Tobias Haahr: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Vejle's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vejle has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mads Enggård 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 Vejle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Daniel Dalsgaard after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Vejle told Emil Højlund something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Mads Enggård pops up at the right end — 7.74
7.74, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match26 Oct 2026
The half-term report on Vejle
Position 11, 9 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mike Vestergård 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Wahid Faghir
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Brondby leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad26 Oct 2026
One booking too many, and Mads Enggård sits out. Vejle lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mads Enggård finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Vejle have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. 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.
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Crisis
Match19 Oct 2026
Vejle are in real trouble now
Position 11, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tobias Bach 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 Vejle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vejle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mike Vestergård was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Daniel Dalsgaard to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Brondby in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Giorgi Tabatadze is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lundrim Hetemi commits to Vejle for another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vejle
Tobias Bach 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 new faces, and Vejle are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Valdemar Lund’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vejle needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody at Vejle will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Lundrim Hetemi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tobias Lauritsen has written the date down.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Wahid Faghir keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vejle say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
Vejle come up short against OB
OB left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jan Lammers and Vejle agree another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Everybody at Vejle saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vejle
Stefan Velkov 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Stefan Velkov
“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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Lasse Nielsen gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lasse Nielsen is on it.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Vejle
Mads Enggård 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mike Vestergård. 1‑0 against Viborg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Daniel Dalsgaard could afford to be generous.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Anders K. Jacobsen’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vejle needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Wahid Faghir
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Vejle will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Crisis
Match21 Sep 2026
Vejle are in real trouble now
Position 11, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Vejle
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Vejle are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Vejle
Valdemar Lund and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to SonderjyskE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Tobias Bach beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Igor Vekić 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Anders K. Jacobsen is on it.
Market21 Sep 2026
Vejle have let the market know Thomas Gundelund can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Lierse come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vejle did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Sep 2026
So close: Sander Ravn’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Kolding IF moved on, Sander Ravn reports back to Vejle, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Tobias Bach beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RWDM have kept their man, and Vejle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Vejle
Sander Ravn 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Anders K. Jacobsen 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.
The dugout14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Emil Højlund: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Vejle will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Gustav Knudsen
“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.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Stefan Velkov 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 Vejle can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 1 in, 19 out at Vejle
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 19 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Hammarby is saying, and nobody at Vejle is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Kolding IF have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sander Ravn. The answer from Vejle has not changed — yet.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Anders K. Jacobsen 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobias Lauritsen, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against FC Nordsjaelland in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Mike Vestergård delivers — 7.79
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mike Vestergård scored, was marked 7.79, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market31 Aug 2026
Anton Klaster 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 Vejle can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Fredericia have kept their man, and Vejle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vejle have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vejle
Tobias Bach and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Hammarby have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A club back home comes in for Emil Højlund
The enquiry everybody at Vejle was hoping would not arrive has arrived. He has never pretended he did not want to go back, and now there is somewhere to go back to.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Mike Vestergård to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against FC Fredericia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Aug 2026
Vejle march on in the cup
Middelfart are out and Vejle go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vejle can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vejle say no — this time
The offer from Silkeborg for Christian Gammelgaard 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FC Fredericia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Horsens have kept their man, and Vejle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
FC Midtjylland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tobias Bach 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 Vejle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Simon Kalambayi is in the works
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Emil Højlund is in the works
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Squad
A row about effort at Vejle
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Uneasy
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jelle Duin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hobro come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vejle did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $45.0K — a club that wants Markus Seim-Monsen enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vejle had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Bodo/Glimt, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vejle asked and Hammarby said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vejle
Tobias Bach 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hillerød are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Vejle will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 6.99 on the card, and the Vejle support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Vejle have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vejle say no — this time
The offer from IFK Värnamo for Tobias Bach 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vejle
Mads Enggård 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AGF have kept their man, and Vejle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vejle have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mike Vestergård commits to Vejle for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Bodo/Glimt have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
111 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Vejle know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vejle have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mads Enggård 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 Vejle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mikkel Duelund and Vejle agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Vejle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Bach 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Bendegúz Kovács is in the works
Vejle have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Match1 Aug 2026
It needed Yusuf Faghir to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Randers, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.