Eriksen has not played since he collapsed in June, and Wolfsburg have let him go home to Denmark
Christian Eriksen has left Wolfsburg by mutual consent, three and a half months after he collapsed playing for Denmark against Ukraine.
Sep 24, 2026
Wolfsburg confirmed the decision on Wednesday, 23 September. Eriksen’s contract was due to run until June 2027, and he asked to leave early so he could go home to Denmark.
“At the moment, it is important for me to be close to my family in Denmark,” Eriksen said. “I’m pleased that we were able to find a solution together.” He also said his time at the club “was marked by many highs and lows”, which is about as fair a summary as anyone could give.
Odense, 7 June
Eriksen has not played since Denmark’s friendly with Ukraine at Odense on 7 June. He went down clutching his chest in the 65th minute and was briefly unconscious. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator he has carried since his cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 did its job, and he left the pitch on his own. The match was abandoned.
It was the second time he had collapsed in a Denmark shirt. The first was the one nobody who saw it has forgotten: the opening group game against Finland in Copenhagen in June 2021, when he needed CPR on the pitch.
Dieter Hecking, Wolfsburg’s managing director for sport, made it plain that the club was not going to argue. “It was clear that the decision about his future had to be Christian’s,” he said. “We wanted to give him that freedom in this particular situation and have now agreed to his request to terminate the contract.”
A year that went wrong for both of them
Eriksen joined Wolfsburg as a free agent on 10 September 2025, after Manchester United let his contract run out. He signed off at Old Trafford by scoring a penalty in a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on the last day of 2024-25.
He came off the bench for the last half-hour of his debut, a 1-0 defeat at Borussia Dortmund. His first goal took until 14 January, a penalty in a 2-1 win over St. Pauli. He made 34 appearances in all, and the club went down anyway. Wolfsburg drew the first leg of the relegation play-off 0-0 at home to Paderborn, then lost the return in Paderborn to a goal in the 99th minute, in extra time. It was their first relegation since they came up to the Bundesliga in 1997, and it left them in the second tier for this season.
Denmark’s year was no kinder. They missed the 2026 World Cup after drawing 2-2 with the Czech Republic in the play-off final in Prague and losing the shootout 3-1. Eriksen was the only Dane who scored his penalty.
What is left
He is 34, and he holds Denmark’s appearance record with 151 caps, alongside 46 goals. Before Wolfsburg he played for Ajax, Tottenham, Inter, Brentford and United, and the Premier League knew him best from those Spurs years.
The statements from both sides say nothing about retirement, and it would be a stretch to read one into words about family. What they do say is that he would rather be near home than chase a way back into a relegated side. Given what happened in Odense, few people will think he got that wrong.