Danish Footballer Viktor Fischer Announces Retirement Due to Injuries

The Danish attacker Viktor Fischer (29) will immediately end his football career, his Belgian employer Antwerp FC reported on Twitter on Thursday. The Dane, who broke through in professional football in Ajax’s shirt, is plagued by persistent injuries and is therefore putting an end to his career.

Fischer was taken from Denmark by Ajax in 2012, where he played in the youth of FC Midtjylland. That same year he would make his debut in the main force under Frank de Boer in the Johan Cruijff Shield against PSV (4-2 loss). In his first season he came to 24 games in the Eredivisie (ten goals), but production stalled in his second season. A serious injury then put an end to a considerable part of his third year, after which he said goodbye to Amsterdam in his fourth season in Amsterdam with 28 games and eight goals.

Ajax sold the Danish winger in the summer of 2016 for five million euros to the English Middlesbrough. A year later he moved to FSV Mainz 05 in Germany, but after half a season he moved to his home country, where Fischer went to play for FC Copenhagen. That club sold him to Antwerp in the summer of 2021, but the Belgian adventure again did not go as hoped due to injuries. Antwerp rented out Fischer to the Swedish AIK this season, for which he made the last minutes of his career on June 11.

Fischer’s contract has been dissolved by mutual agreement, writes Antwerp on Twitter. This ends his career after 344 matches as a professional. He eventually scored 74 times and managed to get 75 assists to his name. In November 2012, Fischer made his debut in the Danish national team, for which he would eventually play 21 times (three goals). He was active in one final tournament with his country: at the 2018 World Cup, he played half an hour in the group match against the later world champion France (0-0).

Viktor Fischer (29) puts an end to his football career. The reason is a lingering injury. Fischer was loaned by RAFC to AIK in Sweden until the end of the calendar year. At his request, the contracts with both clubs are broken by mutual agreement. pic.twitter.com/hCo4abHo2x

— Royal Antwerp FC (@official_rafc) June 29, 2023