Transfer hit perfect
World star Simon Pytlick is moving to Berlin
November 30, 2025 – 4:16 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
There have been rumors for months, now the transfer coup is perfect: The Füchse Berlin are strengthening themselves with the next world star.
After months of contract poker, the German handball champion Füchse Berlin has completed the next mega transfer and kept a promise to its star player Mathias Gidsel. According to information from the German Press Agency, Danish world champion and Olympic champion Simon Pytlick is moving from Bundesliga competitor SG Flensburg-Handewitt to the capital in the summer of 2027 using an exit clause.
Recently, several Danish media and also the specialist portal “Handball-World” reported on the transfer coup.
The 24-year-old backcourt player has been linked to the Berliners for months. The transfer poker temporarily overshadowed the sporting headlines, so that Flensburg was forced to comment. “We will not give up Simon in the summer of 2026,” the SG made clear in October. Now the change is taking place a year later.
With the transfer, the Berliners are fulfilling a promise that they made to their two-time world handball player Gidsel when his contract was extended in February: the team should be strengthened with additional star players in order to expand the collection of titles.
Gidsel and Pytlick are close friends. Both played in their youth at the Danish club GOG Håndbold, where they worked together as backcourt nippers. The two-time world handball player Gidsel moved to the German capital in 2022, while his compatriot moved to SG Flensburg-Handewitt a year later. In the national team they celebrate a series of successes together – most recently winning gold at the Olympics and the World Cup title.
According to media reports, a world-class transfer is not enough for the ambitious Berliners. As “Sport Bild” recently reported, managing director Bob Hanning and coach Nicolej Krickau are also dealing with the exceptional French player Dika Mem from FC Barcelona. A portal has already reported that this change is perfect. According to dpa information, this is not true. A backcourt with Mem, Gidsel and Pytlick would be second to none.