Potsdam beat Aalsmeer 43:30 in a club friendly on Saturday. The match took place on 9 August 2026 at 15:00. No competition table was affected — it was a warm-up fixture, plain and simple.
By then you'd expect these games to be about testing combinations. Potsdam came out with that kind of confidence. They never let Aalsmeer settle into anything. And here's the thing — the margin told you everything about where each side thought they were at.
Looking at Potsdam's run, they'd drawn with SG BBM Bietigheim 29:29 on 30 May and edged Grossewalstadt 30:29 on 24 May. There was a heavy defeat to Hagen 30:34 back in June, but the 27:31 loss to HVD Minden on 8 August — the day before this match — suggested they were still finding their rhythm. Things came to a head against Aalsmeer, if only in a friendly.
Aalsmeer had been busy too. They'd scraped past Hubo Handball 28:29 in March 2025 and lost narrowly to Neunburg-Lübbecke 27:34 on 8 August. The big scores against Bévo 43:35 and Haouten 44:28 in 2025 showed they could score, but consistency was another matter entirely.
Forty-three goals is a lot to put past anyone, even in a friendly. Aalsmeer's attack wasn't blunted so much as outpaced. Potsdam were second to everything and that's not a compliment — it's the truth of a 13-goal gap. To be fair, Aalsmeer made the effort, but they couldn't match the tempo.
There's nothing in the standings to read into yet. The result doesn't change positions or points. But you watch enough of these games and you notice who's building something. Potsdam looked like they were.