SV Wehen Wiesbaden

SV Wehen Wiesbaden

Full name	Sportverein Wehen 1926 – Taunusstein e. V. (organisation) Sportverein Wehen 1926 Wiesbaden GmbH (company)
Founded	1 January 1926;98 years ago (1926-01-01)
Ground	BRITA-Arena
Capacity	13,500
Chairman	Markus Hankammer
Manager	Nils Döring
League	3. Liga
2023–24	2. Bundesliga, 16th of 18 (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. The club was previously known as SV Wehen but added Wiesbaden to its name during the summer of 2007. They left their previous ground, the Taunusstein, that same summer and have played at the BRITA-Arena ever since. Wehen will compete in the 2024-25 3. Liga season, having been relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in 2023-24.

History

Amateur Football (1926–1994)

Historical chart of Wehen Wiesbaden league performance

The club was founded under the name of SV Wehen 1926 – Taunusstein in 1926 and disbanded by the Nazi government in 1933, although the football department was maintained by playing occasional friendly matches until 1939. The club re-established itself in 1946, following World War II. They operated both first and reserve teams from the beginning, with their first team competing in local amateur division, the B-Klasse Wiesbaden. The club's first youth team was established in 1955 and they subsequently started to use their own talented young players to strengthen the first team. By the mid-1970s, the youth department was split in ten teams with more than 150 players and a women's team was first established in 1984. Wehen won the Hessenpokal in 1988, 1996 and 2000, which gave them berths in the German Cup in those years. ^[1]

Third Tier and upwards (1994–)

Historical crest of SV Wehen Taunusstein

In 1994, the third tier of German football underwent a reform which resulted in the elevation of the Regionalliga. Wehen had finished seventh in the Oberliga Hessen in the previous year and thus became a founding member of the Regionalliga Süd. In spite of its relegation in 1995, the club managed to establish itself in the newly founded league over the next ten years.

At the end of the 2006–07 season, Wehen finished first and earned promotion to the 2.Bundesliga. Its first second-tier season saw the club finish eighth and the inauguration of its current home, Brita-Arena. In spite of a berth in the DFB Pokal quarterfinals, Wehen was relegated to the 3. Liga in 2009, which would remain the club's division for the next ten seasons. ^[2]

Wehen achieved a third-place finish at the end of the 2018–19 season and thereby qualified for the promotion playoffs to the 2.Bundesliga against FC Ingolstadt. After a 1–2 defeat in their home game, the team managed to carry a 3–2 victory on Ingolstadt's turf. Advancing on away goals, Wehen was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga for only the second time in club history. ^[3] However, the club experienced a difficult 2019–20 season and finished in 17th place, fielding the league's worst defence with 65 goals conceded. Along with Dynamo Dresden, Wehen were relegated after just one season in the second tier. ^[4]

On 6 June 2023, Wehen Wiesbaden secured promotion to 2. Bundesliga from 2023 to 2024 after defeating Arminia Bielefeld on aggregate 6–1 in the promotion/relegation play-off matches and returned to the second tier after three years absence.

Honours

League Regionalliga Süd (III) Champions: 2007 Oberliga Hessen (IV) Champions: 1997 Landesliga Hessen-Mitte (IV) Champions: 1989

Cup Hesse Cup (Tiers III–VII) Winners: 1988, 1996, 2000, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2021 Runners-up: 1992, 2001, 2003, 2013, 2016

Players

Current squad

As of 8 July 2024 ^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   GER Arthur Lyska 2 DF   SUI Martin Angha 3 DF   GER Marius Wegmann 4 DF   GER Sascha Mockenhaupt (captain) 5 MF   GER Emanuel Taffertshofer 6 MF   GER Gino Fechner 7 MF   GER Ivan Franjić 8 MF   GER Nick Bätzner 9 FW   NED Thijmen Goppel 10 FW   GER Antonio Jonjić 11 MF   TUR Tarik Gözüsirin 13 GK   MAR Mohamed Amsif 14 FW   CRO Franko Kovačević 15 DF   GER Justin Janitzek

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK   GER Florian Stritzel 17 DF   GER Florian Carstens 18 MF   GER Fabian Greilinger 19 MF   DEN Bjarke Jacobsen 20 FW   IRL Ryan Johansson 21 FW   GER Ole Wohlers 22 MF   GER Amin Farouk 25 FW   SRB Nikolas Agrafiotis 27 DF   GER Nico Rieble 28 MF   GER Moritz Flotho 31 GK   GER Noah Brdar 34 FW   BIH Amar Ćatić 36 DF   GER Nassim Elouarti

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club: ^[6]

Manager	Start	Finish
Manfred Petz	1 July 1997	12 May 1998
Bruno Hübner	12 May 1998	30 June 1998
Martin Hohmann	1 July 1998	30 October 1998
Werner Orf	1 November 1999	6 May 2000
Gerd Schwickert	7 May 2000	3 November 2002
Djuradj Vasic	4 November 2002	16 October 2006
Christian Hock	17 October 2006	30 June 2007
Djuradj Vasic	2 July 2007	20 August 2007
Christian Hock	21 August 2007	17 December 2008
Wolfgang Frank	19 December 2008	23 March 2009
Hans Werner Moser	24 March 2009	9 February 2010
Gino Lettieri	10 February 2010	15 February 2012
Peter Vollmann	February 2012	21 October 2013
Marc Kienle	28 October 2013	12 April 2015
Christian Hock	12 April 2015	30 June 2015
Sven Demandt	1 July 2015	7 March 2016
Torsten Fröhling	14 March 2016	6 February 2017
Rüdiger Rehm	13 February 2017	25 October 2021
Mike Krannich/Nils Döring	25 October 2021	8 November 2021
Markus Kauczinski	8 November 2021	28 April 2024
Nils Döring	28 April 2024	present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: ^{[7] [8]}

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Regionalliga Süd	III	13th
2000–01	Regionalliga Süd		11th
2001–02	Regionalliga Süd		6th
2002–03	Regionalliga Süd		7th
2003–04	Regionalliga Süd		7th
2004–05	Regionalliga Süd		3rd
2005–06	Regionalliga Süd		3rd
2006–07	Regionalliga Süd		1st ↑
2007–08	2. Bundesliga	II	8th
2008–09	2. Bundesliga		18th ↓
2009–10	3. Liga	III	15th
2010–11	3. Liga		4th
2011–12	3. Liga		16th
2012–13	3. Liga		7th
2013–14	3. Liga		4th
2014–15	3. Liga		9th
2015–16	3. Liga		16th
2016–17	3. Liga		7th
2017–18	3. Liga		4th
2018–19	3. Liga		3rd ↑
2019–20	2. Bundesliga	II	17th ↓
2020–21	3. Liga	III	6th
2021–22	3. Liga		8th
2022–23	3. Liga		4th ↑
2023–24	2. Bundesliga	II	16th ↓
2024–25	3. Liga	III

• With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

Key

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

References

1. "SV Wehen Wiesbaden – History". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
2. "SV Wehen Wiesbaden Historie". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
3. "SVWW: Aufsteiger dank "einzigartigem Kampf"". kicker.de. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
4. "Nach Zweitliga-Abstieg: Zehn Abgänge bei Wehen Wiesbaden". Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved 20 November 2020.
5. "SV Wehen Wiesbaden – Kader". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
6. SV Wehen Wiesbaden .:. Trainer von A-Z (in German) weltfussball.de. Retrieved 10 December 2011
7. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables. Retrieved 20 September 2014
8. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues. Retrieved 20 September 2014

External links

• Official website (in German)
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• SV Wehen Wiesbaden at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables