Florida Crocs superstar Liam Pitchford will not compete in Season 4 of Major League Table Tennis (MLTT), league sources tell Table Tennis TV.
Pitchford will play for TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau of Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) during the 2026-27 season. He cited rehabilitation from his hip surgery, lengthy travel to and from his home country of England and a desire to pursue more individual competitions as reasons for his departure from MLTT.
Pitchford earned a Singles percentage of 64.4% (29-16), a Doubles percentage of 46.7% (14-16) and a Golden Game percentage of 51.5% (52-49) with the Crocs in Season 2. He was drafted with the first overall pick in the Season 2 MLTT Draft, and he finished that season as a finalist for Men’s MVP.
Pitchford underwent season-ending hip surgery in September, which caused him to miss all of the Crocs’ Season 3. Without Pitchford, the Crocs finished with MLTT’s lowest winning percentage (34.7%) and earned the third overall pick in the Season 4 MLTT Draft.
Pitchford is a four-time Olympian and an 11-time medalist at the Commonwealth Games. He is ITTF’s No. 108 Men’s Singles player in the world, which makes him the second-highest-ranked Englishman behind ASC Grünwettersbach star Tom Jarvis (Men’s Singles No. 69).
Grenzau will add Pitchford to a young core of Feng Yi-Hsin (Bundesliga No. 11), Samuel Walker (No. 61), Martin Allegro (No. 67) and Maciej Kubik (No. 75). All four players have extended their contracts with Grenzau ahead of the 2026-27 season.
Grenzau ranks as the Bundesliga’s No. 9 seed and possesses an 8-12 record with a point differential of 16:24 at the time of this article’s publication. Grenzau sat in a relegation spot throughout most of the 2026-27 season, but they’ve since embarked on a four-match winning streak beginning on Feb. 15.
Grenzau looks to add a fifth game to that streak on Tuesday, when the club plays Borussia Düsseldorf at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
