TUSEM Essen is a handball club from Essen, Germany. Currently, they compete in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga.
History The history of Tusem Essen began in the 1960's with 6 promotions in 7 years, where they reached the Oberliga in 1971-72. In 1976 Klaus Schorn took over as coach and guided them to the Bundesliga for the second time, where they played for the next 26 years.
In 1986 they won the German Championship for the first time under the Romanian coach Petre Ivănescu, followed by the DHB-Pokal in 1988, beating SG Wallau-Massenheim in the final 25-18 and 28-21.
In 1994 they won the inaugural edition of the EHF City Cup.
The professional handball team broke out from the club in 2000 and was transformed into its own company.
In 2004 the main sponsor left the team, which meant economic uncertainty that culminated in a forced relegation to the Regionalliga. As they had just won the EHF Cup in 2005, this meant that they played in the EHF Cup Winners' Cup as a third division team.
The team achieved 2 promotions and was back in the Bundesliga for the 2007-08 season. They finished 16th, and won the relegation play-off against HSG Düsseldorf. However they had to declare insolvency on November 4th the following season and was thus relegated.
In 2020 they were promoted to the Bundesliga again, but only a season later they were relegated.DKB - Handball-Bundesliga 2020-21 league table
Accomplishments Handball-Bundesliga: 3 : 1986, 1987, 1989 DHB-Pokal: 3 : 1988, 1991, 1992 EHF Champions League: 1 : 1988 EHF Cup Winner's Cup: 1 : 1989 EHF Cup: 1 : 2005 EHF Challenge Cup: 1 : 1994
Team Current squad Squad for the 2022–23 season
Goalkeepers 1 Arne Fuchs 12 Sebastian Bliß 16 Lukas Diedrich
Left wingers 68 Tim Michel Mast 73 Finley Werschkull Right wingers 21 Felix Eißing 34 Felix Klingler Line players 10 Finn Wolfram 14 Markus Dangers
Left backs 3 Jonas Ellwanger 22 Dennis Szczęsny 28 Malte Seidel Centre backs 15 Nils Homscheid 25 Justin Müller 33 Eloy Morante Maldonado Right backs 8 Tim Rozman 77 Alexander Schoss
Transfers Transfers for the 2026–27 season
Joining Adin Faljić (LP) from SG Flensburg-Handewitthttps://www.instagram.com/tusemhandball/p/Ddbi_NOjKc4/ Lukas Diedrich (GK) from Bergischer HC Nicholas Schley (LP) from 1. VfL Potsdam
Leaving Dominik Plaue (GK) (retires) Alexander Becker (LP) to VfL Eintracht Hagen Luis Buschhaus (CB) to Eintracht Hildesheim Valentin Clarius (LP) to Münchner Panther Finn Wolfram (LP)
Transfer History
Transfers for the 2025–26 seasonJoining Maximilian Hejny (RB) from SG BBM Bietigheim Valentin Willner (LP) from Rhein-Neckar Löwen Alexander Becker (LP) from VfL Eintracht Hagen Tom Wolf (LB) from MT Melsungen Felix Mart (CB) from Füchse Berlin Finn Knaack (GK) on loan from HSV Hamburg
Leaving Dennis Szczęsny (LB) to HSG Am Hallohttps://www.handball-world.news/artikel/tusem-kapitaen-szczesny-wechselt-zu-fuenftligist-1096108 Dennis Wipf (GK) to VfL Eintracht Hagen Lev Szuharev (RB) to Wölfe Würzburg Mats Haberkamp (GK) to GWD Minden Christian Wilhelm (LP) to HSG Nordhorn-Lingen Fynn-Lukas Hermeling (LB) to TuS Vinnhorst Louis Elsässer (LW) to HSG Bergische Panther Jan Weiss (LP) to Ahlener SG
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