Raphael Assibey-Mensah
Personal information
Full name Raphael Assibey-Mensah[1]
Date of birth (1999-08-31) 31 August 1999
Place of birth Leipzig, Germany
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s) Left winger, attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 TSV Schott Mainz
Number 23
Youth career
Fontana Finthen
2008–2016 Mainz 05
2016–2018 Brentford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2021 TSV Schott Mainz 74 (22)
2018–2019 TSV Schott Mainz II 7 (10)
2021–2022 SC Freiburg II 8 (0)
2022–2023 FSV Zwickau 18 (2)
2023– TSV Schott Mainz 15 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:09, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Raphael Assibey-Mensah (born 31 August 1999) is a German professional footballer who plays as a left winger for TSV Schott Mainz.

Assibey-Mensah is a product of the Mainz 05 academy. Following two seasons as a professional with Brentford B in England, he returned to his native Germany. Since 2018, Assibey-Mensah has played lower-league football for TSV Schott Mainz, SC Freiburg II and FSV Zwickau.

Club career

Youth years

A left winger or attacking midfielder,[3] Assibey-Mensah began his career in his native Germany with Fontana Finthen,[4] before entering the Mainz 05 academy.[3] He progressed through the ranks to the club's U17 team and scored three goals in 14 U17 Bundesliga appearances before his release at the end of the 2015–16 season.[3][5] Assibey-Mensah moved to England to sign his first professional contract to be a part of the B team at Championship club Brentford on 31 August 2016.[3] He made 62 B team appearances and scored six goals before his release at the end of the 2017–18 season.[6]

TSV Schott Mainz

In mid-September 2018, Assibey-Mensah returned to Germany to join Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar club TSV Schott Mainz on a contract running until the end of the 2018–19 season.[7] During a season interrupted with a pulmonary embolism,[8] he finished with 15 appearances and two goals.[9] He scored prolifically for the reserve team, with 10 goals in seven Bezirksliga Rheinhessen appearances.[10] During the club's 2019–20 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar championship-winning season,[11] which was ended prematurely by the COVID-19 pandemic,[12] Assibey-Mensah made 20 appearances and scored eight goals.[9] He was retained for 2020–21 and scored 12 goals in 39 appearances during a Regionalliga Südwest season in which the club narrowly avoided relegation.[9][13][14] Assibey-Mensah departed TSV Schott Mainz at the end of the campaign and made 76 appearances and scored 23 goals during his three-season spell with the club.[9][15]

SC Freiburg II

In May 2021, Assibey-Mensah agreed to transfer to newly-promoted 3. Liga club SC Freiburg II,[15][16] on a contract effective 1 July 2021, for a €100,000 fee.[17] During an illness-affected 2021–22 season,[18][19] he made eight appearances without scoring.[20] In June 2022, Assibey-Mensah joined Swiss Challenge League club FC Schaffhausen on trial, but did not win a contract.[21] Assibey-Mensah departed the club on the penultimate day of the summer transfer window.[22]

FSV Zwickau

On 31 August 2022, Assibey-Mensah transferred to 3. Liga club FSV Zwickau and signed a one-year contract, with a one-year option.[22] He made 20 appearances and scored three goals during a 2022–23 season which culminated in the club's relegation to the Regionalliga Nordost.[20][23] Assibey-Mensah was released when the club neglected to take up the option on his contract.[24]

Return to TSV Schott Mainz

Assibey-Mensah spent time during the 2023 off-season training with the VDV and former club TSV Schott Mainz.[25] Following a failed trial with Regionalliga Südwest club Kickers Offenbach, Assibey-Mensah signed a contract with TSV Schott Mainz on 8 September 2023.[25]

International career

Assibey-Mensah was named as a standby for a Germany U16 training camp in Barsinghausen in May 2015.[26]

Personal life

Assibey-Mensah is of Ghanaian descent.[2]

Career statistics

As of match played 9 December 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
TSV Schott Mainz 2018–19[9] Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 15 2 0 0 15 2
2019–20[9] Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 20 8 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 21 8
2020–21[9] Regionalliga Südwest 39 12 1[lower-alpha 1] 1 40 13
Total 74 22 2 1 76 23
TSV Schott Mainz II 2018–19[10] Bezirksliga Rheinhessen 7 10 — 7 10
SC Freiburg II 2021–22[20] 3. Liga 8 0 — 8 0
FSV Zwickau 2022–23[20] 3. Liga 18 2 2[lower-alpha 2] 1 20 3
TSV Schott Mainz 2023–24[20] Regionalliga Südwest 15 2 1[lower-alpha 1] 2 15 4
Total 89 24 3 3 91 27
Career total 122 36 5 4 126 40
  1. 1 2 3 Appearance(s) in Southwestern Cup
  2. ↑ Appearances in Saxony Cup

Honours

TSV Schott Mainz

References

  1. ↑ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/08/2016 and 31/08/2016". The Football Association. p. 1. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  2. 1 2 Raphael Assibey-Mensah at WorldFootball.net
  3. 1 2 3 4 "German attacker Raphael Assibey-Mensah signs for Brentford B". Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Spieler". SC Freiburg (in German). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Raphael Assibey-Mensah at DFB (also available in German)
  6. ↑ "Brentford B squad update". Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  7. ↑ ""Damals war ich nicht so klar wie heute"". tsvschott.de (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "TSV Schott Mainz" (PDF). p. 3. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Raphael Assibey-Mensah". FSV 05.de – Online-Archiv des 1. FSV Mainz 05. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  10. 1 2 "Raphael Assibey-Mensah | Spieler Einsätze". kicker (in German). Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Tables – Oberliga – Germany". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  12. ↑ "Ein Regionalliga-Aufstieg ist schon fix – Bericht von Torben Schröder in der Liga Verbandsliga Südwest" (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  13. ↑ "15 Mann plus x bleiben an Bord". FuPa. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  14. ↑ "Tabelle | 41. Spieltag | Regionalliga Südwest 2020/21". kicker (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  15. 1 2 Kaufhold, Matthias (7 May 2021). "Gelingt dem SC Freiburg II auf Kunstrasen der nächste Schritt? – SC Freiburg". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  16. ↑ "Willkommen und Abschied bei der U23". SC Freiburg (in German). Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  17. ↑ "Exclusive: Freiburg sign free-scoring Ghanaian youngster for €100,000". Ghana Sports Online. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  18. ↑ "Englische Woche endet in Westsachsen". SC Freiburg (in German). Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  19. ↑ "Sportvorschau – USC Eisvögel". Badische Zeitung (in German). 4 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 Raphael Assibey-Mensah at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  21. ↑ "Der FC Schaffhausen testet einen Stürmer des SC Freiburg". sport.ch. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  22. 1 2 "FSV Zwickau verpflichtet Probespieler Assibey-Mensah". FSV Zwickau (in German). Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  23. ↑ "FSV Zwickau – TSV 1860 München 2:2 (0:0) [38. Spieltag]". FSV Zwickau (in German). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  24. ↑ "FSV Zwickau: Diese 12 Spieler suchen nach dem Abstieg noch einen Job". bild.de (in German). 11 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  25. 1 2 Schröder, Torben (8 September 2023). "Ein "Riesen-Gewinn": Schott Mainz holt Ex-Torjäger zurück". Mittelhessen (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  26. ↑ "U16 Nationalmannschaft – Kader U16 Lehrgang Barsinghausen – 03-06.05.2015" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
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