Frans Krätzig's loan spell to continue at 1 FC Heidenheim

FC Bayern's Frans Krätzig is to go out on loan to 1. FC Heidenheim until the end of the season. The German record champions had previously reached an agreement with VfB Stuttgart to end the 21-year-old defender's loan there earlier than planned. Krätzig, who joined FC Bayern's youth setup in 2017 and made his senior debut in September 2023, moved to Champions League participants Stuttgart on loan in the summer, where he made four appearances for the first team this season. Krätzig will now play for sixteenth-placed Heidenheim in the Bundesliga until the end of the campaign.