 Though making thirty-three appearances, Tesselaar was absent due to an injury that kept him out for six weeks.Tesselaar signed for Kilmarnock in June 2012 on a two-year contract despite interests from Aberdeen.On his move, Manager Kenny Shiels told STV, "We're really happy to get him on board because we've lost Ben Gordon so now we've got competition between Rory McKeown and Jeroen."