Steven Foly Mensah (born 11 February 2003) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for the German club

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. Born in Germany, he plays for the Togo national team.

Club career

A youth product of SC V/W Billstedt and

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), or HSV (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its Association football, football department. Though the current HSV was founde ...

, Mensah started his senior career with

Hamburger SV II Hamburger SV II are the reserve team of German association football club Hamburger SV. Until 2005 the team played as Hamburger SV Amateure. The team has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on five occasions. They cur ...

in the

Regionalliga Nord The Regionalliga Nord () is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga N ...

in 2021. In June 2021, he was promoted to Hamburg's senior team. Having left Hamburg in summer 2024, he joined Regionalliga Nord club

in January 2025.

International career

Born in Germany, Mensah is Togolese by descent. He was first called up to the Togo national team for a set of matches in March 2022. He trained with the senior squad that window, but made two appearances with the Togo U23 in June 2022. He debuted with Togo in a 2–0 friendly win over

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

on 14 June 2023.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mensah, Steven 2003 births Living people Togolese men's footballers Togo men's international footballers Togo men's youth international footballers German men's footballers German people of Togolese descent Men's association football goalkeepers Hamburger SV II players VfB Oldenburg players Regionalliga players 21st-century German sportsmen