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TTBL: Shunsuke Togami, Ochsenhausen agree to a one-year extension

Luke Scotchie
Journalist
Updated
April 8, 2026
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Shunsuke Togami will return to Ochsenhausen for the 2026-27 season (Table Tennis Bundesliga).

Shunsuke Togami and TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen have agreed to a one-year contract extension, the club announced in a press release on Wednesday.

This extension will take Togami through his third consecutive season with Ochsenhausen. Togami is the top remaining player from Ochsenhausen’s German Championship-winning 2024-25 club, and he’ll remain with that club for one more year.

“I am very happy to be able to play for the TTF in the next season,” Togami said. “I will do my best to contribute even more to the team than this season.”

Togami has been one of the Bundesliga’s brightest stars throughout the 2025-26 TTBL season, having won Player of the Month in September 2025 after losing only one game throughout the month. He’s the Bundesliga’s No. 4 player at the time of this article’s publication, and he boasts an individual record of 14:3 and wins over SV Werder Bremen’s Kirill Gerassimenko (Bundesliga No. 6) TSV Bad Königshofen’s Bastian Steger (No. 12) and TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell’s Dimitri Ovtcharov (No. 14).

Togami, alongside Hugo Calderano and Simon Gauzy, played a critical role in helping Ochsenhausen win both the Liebherr Cup and German Championship in 2024-25. Calderano and Gauzy have since left the club, but Togami still led Ochsenhausen to an appearance in the Liebherr Cup Final Four in January.

Togami first signed with Ochsenhausen in the 2022-23 season, when he was just 20 years old. He took a one-year hiatus from TTBL before re-joining Ochsenhausen in May 2024.

Togami will return to an Ochsenhausen roster that extended rising star Iulian Chirita (No. 22) in March. The club will surround Togami and Chirita with recent transfers Darius Movileanu and Daniel Berzosa in the 2026-27 season, as fellow Ochsenhausen mainstay Andreas Levenko (No. 58) will not return after this year.

Ochsenhausen currently holds a perfectly-balanced 10-10 record and a point differential of 20:20 with two rounds left in the 2025-26 regular season. That ranks Ochsenhausen as the Bundesliga’s No. 5 team, which is just one spot outside of a postseason berth.

Ochsenhausen hopes to regain a winning record on Tuesday, when the club faces TTC OE Clarity-Tel.Syst.Bad Homburg at 1 p.m. EDT.