Emmanuel Essiam

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Emmanuel Essiam
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-12-19) 19 December 2003 (age 22)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana [1]
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Francs Borains
(on loan from Basel)
Number 15
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2022 Berekum Chelsea 20 (0)
2022– Basel II 9 (0)
2022– Basel 8 (0)
2023 → Stade Lausanne Ouchy (loan) 7 (0)
2025 → Aarau (loan) 11 (0)
2025– → Francs Borains (loan) 5 (0)
International career‡
2021 Ghana U20 6 (0)
2021 Ghana U23 2 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 December 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 00:39, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Emmanuel Essiam (born 19 December 2003) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Belgian Challenger Pro League club Francs Borains on loan from Swiss side Basel. [2]

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Club career

In January 2022, having represented Berekum Chelsea in the Ghana Premier League, Essiam moved to Switzerland to join Basel. [3] [4] [5] [6] Shortly after joining, Essiam suffered an injury, keeping him out of first team action. [7] He got over his injury and started training with Basel on 7 October 2022. [8] On 7 September 2023, Essiam was loaned to Stade Lausanne Ouchy. [9]

On 3 January 2025, Essiam moved on loan to Aarau in the second-tier Swiss Challenge League. [10] He returned to Basel at the end of the season. [11] On 19 August 2025, Essiam was loaned by Francs Borains in the Belgian second tier. [12]

International career

Essiam represented the Ghanaian under-20 side at the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, winning the competition. [1] He also played in a friendly against the Japan under-23s. [13]

Personal life

Emmanuel Essiam was born and raised in Ghana. On 3 January 2022, Basel discovered his talent and transferred with high hopes. [14]

Career statistics

Club

As of 2 January 2023 [15]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Berekum Chelsea 2020–21 Ghana Premier League 13000–00130
2021–22 7000–0070
Total200000000200
Basel 2021–22 Swiss Super League 0000000000
2022–23 0000000000
Total0000000000
Career total200000000200

Honours

Ghana U20

References

  1. 1 2 3 Emmanuel Essiam at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Emmanuel Essiam". Swiss Football League.
  3. ↑ "Neuzugang beim FC Basel: Emmanuel Essiam ist da". 4-4-2. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Ghana U20 midfielder Emmanuel Essiam completes move to Swiss giants FC Basel". Sports Brief.
  5. ↑ Teye, Prince Narkortu (3 January 2022). "Emmanuel Essiam: Swiss giants Basel sign Ghana U20 star". goal.com. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "Emmanuel Essiam joins Swiss giants FC Basel until 2026 from Berekum Chelsea". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Good, Oliver (2 May 2022). "Gibt es beim FCB keinen brauchbaren Spieler, der im Winter kam?" [Is there no useful player at FCB who came in winter?]. bazonline.ch (in German). Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "FC Basel's Emmanuel Essiam returns to training after injury layoff". citisportsonline. 7 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "EMMANUEL ESSIAM REJOINT LE SLO EN PRÊT" [EMMANUEL ESSIAM JOINS SLO ON LOAN.] (in French). FC Stade Lausanne Ouchy. 7 September 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "Emmanuel Essiam auf Leihbasis zum FC Aarau" [Emmanuel Essiam on loan to FC Aarau] (in German). FC Aarau. 3 January 2025. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "Erste Kadermutationen für die neue Saison bekannt" (in Swiss High German). FC Aarau. 13 June 2025.
  12. ↑ "Emmanuel Essiam est Borain !" [Emmanuel Essiam is from Borain!] (in French). Francs Borains. 19 August 2025. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  13. ↑ "Match Report" (PDF). jfa.jp. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Basel signs 18-year old Ghanaian Emmanuel Essiam". pulse.com. 3 January 2022.
  15. ↑ Emmanuel Essiam at Soccerway
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