TSG prematurely extend with Umut Tohumcu

“Umut is another prime example of TSG’s approach of identifying young talents and promoting them into professional football via its own academy. He is a player with enormous potential who has already produced remarkable performances in the Bundesliga over recent months. Umut can play a central role in our team going forward and has a great future ahead of him if he continues to work as hard as he has so far. So it was important for us to make this statement and prematurely extend his contract by two years,” said TSG Managing Director Alexander Rosen about the Offenburg native.

“Umut is a highly talented midfielder who wants to improve every day and already plays with great maturity at the highest level,” said Pirmin Schwegler, the Head of Professional Football at TSG Hoffenheim. “His impressive understanding of the game, his excellent technique and not least his mental and physical robustness are exceptional for a player who is only 19 and whose development is far from over. We’re convinced that Umut will bring us a great deal of joy in the coming years.”

Umut Tohumcu already made the move to the TSG Hoffenheim at the age of 12. He then progressed through all the Hoffenheim youth ranks before becoming a permanent member of the club’s professional squad in January 2023. However, Tohumcu got his first taste of Bundesliga action at the age of only 17 years, nine months and three days when he came on on the final matchday of the 2021/22 season away to Borussia Mönchengladbach and thus became one of TSG’s youngest-ever Bundesliga debutants. Only Maximilian Beier, Tom Bischof and Niklas Süle were younger than the midfielder when they made their first appearance in a TSG shirt in the German top flight. To date, the winner of the Bronze Fritz Walter Medal has made 18 appearances in the Bundesliga, played two matches in the DFB-Pokal and featured 31 times for Hoffenheim’s Regionalliga team (6 goals / 7 assists). Tohumcu has made nine appearances in the Bundesliga alone this season, assisting two goals. Since his debut for the Germany U20 national team in October 2023, Tohumcu has played four matches for the DFB juniors. The midfielder had previously progressed through all the junior national teams from U15 level onwards.