Surprising change
Wolfsburg attracts world star to the Bundesliga
Updated on 10.09.2025 – 9:33 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
VfL Wolfsburg has committed the record national player Denmark. In the meantime, a change of the 33-year-old to another top club was in the room.
The Danish record international Christian Eriksen changes to VfL Wolfsburg. The 33-year-old, whose cardiac arrest had moved fans around the world at the European Championship 2021, received a contract with the Bundesliga club until 2027. The wolves confirmed this on Wednesday evening.
“For me, VfL Wolfsburg is the first stop in the Bundesliga – I’m really looking forward to this new adventure,” said Eriksen. The central midfielder has been with Manchester United since the end of his contract in summer, but will need game practice with a view of the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico next year. Most recently, according to media reports in Sweden, he had kept fit at Malmö FF.
With 144 international matches (46 goals), Eriksen is a record national player in his country and already took part in three world and three European championships. “We are very happy that this possibility opened up for us at short notice. With Christian Eriksen we will get a player who saw and experienced everything at the highest level,” said VfL sports director Sebastian Schindzielorz.
At the beginning of the week there was also speculation about switching to Bayer Leverkusen. The new Bayer coach Kasper Hjulmand had worked with Eriksen as a Danish national coach (2020 to 2024). At his cardiac arrest at the EM 2021, Hjulmand was a coach, with his empathetic way he collected many sympathy at the time.
But now Eriksen goes to Wolfsburg, where he is supposed to take on a leadership role in the team of coach Paul Simonis. “Faces known to me from the Danish national team are particularly attractive to VfL for me,” he said. The Danes Joakim Mähle, Jesper Lindström, Andreas Skov Olsen, Jonas Wind and Adam Daghim, sports manager Peter Christiansen also play from Denmark at VfL.