SV Wehen Wiesbaden

 

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]

 

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.

At the beginning of the 2007/08 season, SV Wehen Wiesbaden's first year of professional football, the club only had two official fan clubs: the Halbergtramps and the Psychopathen Wehen 1999. SV Wehen Wiesbaden currently has 15 official fan clubs.

The active fan scene maintains a fan friendship with fans of FC Ingolstadt 04.^[5]

As of 28 August 2024^[6]

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 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 11 MF   TUR Tarik Gözüsirin 13 GK   MAR Mohamed Amsif 14 MF   GER Orestis Kiomourtzoglou 15 DF   GER Justin Janitzek 16 GK   GER Florian Stritzel (captain) 17 DF   GER Florian Carstens

No. Pos. Nation Player 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 29 FW   GER Fatih Kaya 31 GK   GER Noah Brdar 33 DF   AUT Felix Luckeneder 36 DF   GER Nassim Elouarti 39 DF   GER Florian Hübner

Recent managers of the club:^[7]

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[8][9]

• 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.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to SV Wehen-Wiesbaden.

• 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