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Steady
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Viborg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Club Brugge, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Viborg
Mees Hoedemakers 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Jean-Manuel Mbom 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
Tim Freriks 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Viborg, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
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 Frederik Damkjer is on it.
Market8 Feb 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ethen Sampson may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Questions about Jean-Manuel Mbom on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager plants his flag on Lasso Coulibaly
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Lasso Coulibaly’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Steady
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Viborg close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 2 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ruben Alte 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Brondby have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Yonis Njoh. The answer from Viborg has not changed — yet.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Manuel Mbom 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 targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan move for Anosike Ementa is in the works
Viborg have made the call to Club Brugge. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Kotaro Uchino moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Viborg than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filip Đukić, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Oliver Bundgaard trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Grasshopper is saying, and nobody at Viborg is enjoying the guessing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Viborg
Ruben Alte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Viborg asked and Olimpia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Porto: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
When it matters, Filip Đukić plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match25 Jan 2027
Continental football is in reach for Viborg
31 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
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Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Viborg have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Manuel Mbom was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brondby have kept their man, and Viborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan move for Lee Young-Jun is in the works
Viborg have made the call to Grasshopper. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Daniel Anyembe knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Anyembe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jean-Manuel Mbom signs something — a contract at Viborg or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Viborg. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: St. Gallen keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Viborg asked and AGF said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Yonis Njoh 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Daniel Anyembe 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
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 Frederik Damkjer is on it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody is after Dorian Hanza’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Dorian Hanza suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Viborg have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market11 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Kotaro Uchino arrives from Brondby with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Viborg will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ruben Alte 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Andrin Hunziker is in the works
Viborg have made the call to St. Gallen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Brondby 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Roald Mitchell 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Lasso Coulibaly
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Lasso Coulibaly has come out of that comparison in the side, and Viborg have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Charly Nouck 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Asker Beck 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 Asker Beck is on it.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Viborg
Ruben Alte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolai Dybdal is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Manuel Mbom 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Charly Nouck 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Filip Đukić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Viborg 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.
Match28 Dec 2026
Viborg have something to play for
Position 4 on 31 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Viborg
Mees Hoedemakers 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jean-Manuel Mbom 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Charly Nouck has had enough of the bench
“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 Viborg will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market21 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jean-Manuel Mbom signs something — a contract at Viborg or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout21 Dec 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 Daniel Anyembe has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Match12 Dec 2026
Cruel end for OB as Viborg pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Viborg scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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 Dec 2026
Marouane Calame gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marouane Calame has just signed for Viborg, and for once the answer mattered.
Match12 Dec 2026
Viborg get the job done against OB
A 2‑1 win over OB, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Charly Nouck was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Lasso Coulibaly at his very best
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Viborg.
Market14 Dec 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Henrik Hojlund kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Emil Søgaard
“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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Steady
Match5 Dec 2026
3‑0, and Lasso Coulibaly took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Viborg tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad7 Dec 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ruben Alte 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Manuel Mbom was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Charly Nouck 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Henrik Hojlund kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Viborg
Ruben Alte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lasso Coulibaly 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Viborg cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Henrik Hojlund was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Viborg dressing room was either.
Squad30 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Viborg lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
Match28 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Randers defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Daniel Anyembe 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.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match18 Nov 2026
The small margins put Viborg out
Out, 0‑3 to FC Copenhagen, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
A cup hiding at FC Copenhagen leaves Viborg explaining themselves
0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lasso Coulibaly was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ísak Andri Sigurgeirsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Viborg dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.21, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Viborg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout23 Nov 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 66. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jean-Manuel Mbom 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ruben Alte. 1‑0 against Esbjerg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Viborg are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout16 Nov 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 Mads Søndergaard is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Charly Nouck 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.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jean-Manuel Mbom and Viborg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ruben Alte 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Lasso Coulibaly 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Roald Mitchell
“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.
Market9 Nov 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jean-Manuel Mbom 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Henrik Hojlund was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Viborg dressing room was either.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Ruben Alte took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Viborg tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Both of them Ruben Alte's — 8.49
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Viborg
Jeppe Grønning and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.95, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Samkelo Mzolo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Samkelo Mzolo has just signed for Viborg, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorian Hanza 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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Hjalte Bidstrup named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Hjalte Bidstrup is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Daniel Anyembe out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Viborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Viborg
Mees Hoedemakers 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
At last: Viborg win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Hobro. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorian Hanza 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Dorian Hanza’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Viborg.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Dorian Hanza
7.79, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Viborg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Viborg 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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Viborg's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Viborg has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frederik Damkjer is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jeppe Grønning was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Viborg
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Viborg can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mees Hoedemakers, and the manager let it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Viborg
5 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ruben Alte 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorian Hanza 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Brondby left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roald Mitchell, and the manager let it.
Match12 Oct 2026
The half-term report on Viborg
Position 8, 13 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.
The dugout12 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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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
42 days out for Daniel Anyembe after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Viborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Viborg
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Viborg
Ruben Alte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 19 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Viborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorian Hanza 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
FC Copenhagen left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Charly Nouck 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.13 — 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Match26 Sep 2026
Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Viborg had all but put away. OB will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Match26 Sep 2026
It needed Ruben Alte to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against OB, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sami Jalal 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Henrik Hojlund chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
57 days out for Daniel Anyembe after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Viborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Viborg asked and Libertad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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 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 Henrik Hojlund to a room that had heard them before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Viborg 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Emil Søgaard
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Hjalte Boe
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Charly Nouck knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Charly Nouck trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 51. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Daniel Anyembe out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Viborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match14 Sep 2026
Viborg refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 12 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad14 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Werder Bremen have kept their man, and Viborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Manuel Mbom was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 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.
The dugout14 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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Daniel Anyembe out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Viborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Sep 2026
Viborg strike at the death to beat Aalborg
There were 87 minutes on the clock and Aalborg had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Viborg did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Lasso Coulibaly takes the afternoon — 8.00
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lasso Coulibaly provided it, and the 8.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Viborg until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
Viborg get their man
The chase for Emil Søgaard ended with $470.0K changing hands and Hobro out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 unbeaten for Viborg
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Viborg did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Viborg
Mees Hoedemakers and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$450.0K was the most the club would pay and AGF were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
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.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
81 days out for Daniel Anyembe after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Viborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to AGF this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Viborg do not lose
6 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Viborg asked and St. Gallen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Roald Mitchell
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Libertad 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.13, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Daniel Anyembe out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Viborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Asker Beck obliged against OB. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Viborg.
Market24 Aug 2026
Viborg say no — this time
The offer from Aalborg for Asker Beck 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Viborg have gone to Hobro with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Carrarese have kept their man, and Viborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Manuel Mbom was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Malte Heyde
Viborg and FC Nordsjaelland have settled on $930.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Paolo Rizzi rejects the move
Viborg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Mattersburg, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$850.0K was the most the club would pay and FC Midtjylland were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ruben Alte 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 Viborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jeppe Grønning, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
Viborg win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Hobro will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$850.0K on the table at FC Midtjylland. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mees Hoedemakers and Viborg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Viborg
Ruben Alte 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Viborg asked and SonderjyskE said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ruben Alte
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Lindstrom 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. Emil Hojbjerg 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Frederik Kjaer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
463 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Mees Hoedemakers delivers — 7.86
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mees Hoedemakers scored, was marked 7.86, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jeppe Grønning and Viborg agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Viborg
Ruben Alte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match1 Aug 2026
FC Nordsjaelland made Viborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Viborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Manuel Mbom was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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Market
The clock runs on Lucas Lund's contract
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Transfer targets
Viborg try to borrow Hjalte Boe
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The dugout
The view from the dugout