BREAKING: Darko Jorgic reportedly leaving 1. FC Saarbrücken - TT

Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) superstar Darko Jorgic will leave 1. FC Saarbrücken - TT following the 2025-26 season, the club announced in a press release on Monday.

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Jorgic attributes his decision to the overwhelming travel between Germany, various World Table Tennis (WTT) events and his home country of Slovenia. He will reportedly play the rest of his season with Saarbrücken before continuing his table tennis career in Poland.

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“The road here is not over yet,” Jorgic said in the press release. “In the last and the coming weeks, sporting success is clearly in the foreground for me. I now want to concentrate completely on the FCS again and get everything out of it together with the team.”

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Saarbrücken has won three Champions League titles, two Liebherr Cups and a German Championship since Jorgic joined the club seven years ago. The 27-year-old became one of the Bundesliga’s biggest stars while wearing Saarbrücken uniform, and he announced his departure as the league’s top-ranked player (12:0, +12).

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“The farewell to Darko hurts us very much both athletically and humanly,” said Saarbrücken sporting director Erwin Berg. “He has shaped our association over many years and has played a decisive role in shaping it.”

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Jorgic currently ranks as the No. 15 player in the world, ahead of fellow Bundesliga stars Patrick Franziska (No. 19), Shunsuke Togami (No. 20) and Dimitrij Ovtcharov (No. 25). He has two quarterfinal finishes in two Grand Smash events within the past year (United States Smash 2025 and Europe Smash 2025) and three gold medals at the Europe Top 16 Cup (2022-2024).

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His international breakthrough came during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, when he upset then-World No. 3 Tomokazu Harimoto to reach the Men’s Singles quarterfinal. Returning to the Olympics for the 2028 event in Los Angeles is a major goal for Jorgic, who looks to prioritize individual events once his exodus from Saarbrücken is complete.

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“This decision was not made against the club, but for my family and for my further path on the WTT tour and my big goal [of the] L.A. 2028 [Olympics].”

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Jorgic will vacate his spot on a Saarbrücken roster that includes Franziska, Fan Zhendong and Eduard Ionescu, among several others. That team recently hoisted the Liebherr Cup after defeating Ovtcharov’s TTC RhonSprudel Fulda-Maberzell 3-1 on Jan. 4, and they currently rank as the Bundesliga’s third seed with a record of 11-4 (22:8).

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Saarbrücken will play its next match on Feb. 12 against TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau (4-10, 8:20).