# 2023–24 Rot-Weiss Essen season

The 2023–24 season is Rot-Weiss Essen's 117th season in existence and second consecutive in the 3. Liga. They will also compete in the DFB-Pokal.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 2 September 2023
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Jakob Golz |
| 2 | DF | GER | Sascha Voelcke |
| 3 | DF | GER | Aaron Manu |
| 4 | DF | GER | Felix Bastians (captain) |
| 6 | MF | GER | Björn Rother |
| 7 | MF | GER | Andreas Wiegel |
| 8 | MF | GER | Cedric Harenbrock |
| 9 | FW | GER | Ron Berlinski |
| 10 | MF | GER | Thomas Eisfeld |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marvin Obuz (on loan from 1. FC Köln) |
| 14 | FW | GER | Lucas Brumme |
| 16 | DF | GER | Mustafa Kourouma |
| 17 | DF | GER | Ekin Çelebi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | GER | Nils Kaiser |
| 19 | DF | GER | Eric Voufack |
| 20 | FW | CRO | Leonardo Vonić |
| 21 | DF | GER | Sandro Plechaty |
| 23 | DF | GER | José-Enrique Ríos Alonso |
| 24 | MF | GER | Felix Götze |
| 26 | FW | GER | Torben Müsel |
| 27 | MF | GER | Vinko Šapina |
| 29 | FW | GUI | Moussa Doumbouya |
| 30 | FW | USA | Isaiah Young |
| 31 | GK | GER | Ole Springer |
| 35 | GK | GER | Felix Wienand |
| 37 | DF | GER | Fabian Rüth |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | SUI | Ben Heuser (at FC Cosmos Koblenz until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| DF | Felix Götze | FC Augsburg | €100k | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Vinko Šapina | SC Verl | €40k | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | Moussa Doumbouya | FC Ingolstadt | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Ekin Çelebi | Hannover 96 | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | Marvin Obuz | 1. FC Köln | Loan | 7 July 2023 |
| FW | Leonardo Vonić | 1. FC Nürnberg II | €100k | 25 July 2023 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| FW | Simon Engelmann | SV Rödinghausen | Free | 1 July 2023 | |
| MF | Niklas Tarnat | 1860 Munich | Free | 21 July 2023 | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| 3. Liga | 4 August 2023 | 18 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 53 | 47 | +6 | 047.06 |
| DFB-Pokal | 13 August 2023 | 13 August 2023 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 35 | 16 | 7 | 12 | 56 | 51 | +5 | 045.71 |
Last updated: 24 April 2024 Source: Soccerway

### 3. Liga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 5 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 38 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 60 | 43 | +17 | 60 |
| 6 | Erzgebirge Aue | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 51 | 47 | +4 | 60 |
| 7 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 38 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 60 | 53 | +7 | 59 |
| 8 | SV Sandhausen | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 58 | 57 | +1 | 56 |
| 9 | SpVgg Unterhaching | 38 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 50 | 49 | +1 | 55 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 24 April 2024. Source: Soccerway

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H |
| Result | L | D | D | W | W | D | L | W | L | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | L |
| Position | 16 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 7 July 2023.