{"id":832776,"date":"2026-07-29T03:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832776\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:05:19","slug":"toronto-fc-signs-german-midfielder-niklas-dorsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832776\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto FC signs German midfielder Niklas Dorsch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heidenheim’s Niklas Dorsch reacts during a German Bundesliga match against Borussia Dortmund in Dortmund, Germany earlier this year.Martin Meissner\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Toronto FC has signed German midfielder Niklas Dorsch to a contract through the 2030-31 Major League Soccer season, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old joins from German club FC Heidenheim, pending his international transfer certificate and Canadian work permit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to welcome Niklas to Toronto,\u201d TFC general manager Jason Hernandez said in a statement. \u201cNiklas joins us after several seasons in strong European competition. His skillset, mentality, and work rate will be a welcome addition to our midfield. We look forward to Niklas playing a big role at the club for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dorsch has made 118 Bundesliga appearances with Bayern Munich, FC Augsburg and Heidenheim.<\/p>\n

He also spent the 2020-21 season with Belgian first-division club Gent, recording four goals and four assists in 43 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n

Dorsch earned 37 caps for Germany at the youth international level, from under-15 through under-21 and he helped Germany win the UEFA European under-21 championship in 2021.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Heidenheim’s Niklas Dorsch reacts during a German Bundesliga match against Borussia Dortmund in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,561,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-832776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}