SV Wehen Wiesbaden


SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. Since the beginning of the 2007–08 season the club no longer plays its home games in Taunusstein, where they were originally located. In the summer of 2007 Wiesbaden was added to the original name of SV Wehen. The club currently competes in the 2. Bundesliga.

History

Amateur Football (1926–1994)

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.

Third Tier and upwards (1994–)

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.
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.

Honours

League

Current squad

Out on loan

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Manfred Petz1 July 199712 May 1998
Bruno Hübner12 May 199830 June 1998
Martin Hohmann1 July 199830 October 1998
Werner Orf1 November 19996 May 2000
Gerd Schwickert7 May 20003 November 2002
Djuradj Vasic4 November 200216 October 2006
Christian Hock17 October 200630 June 2007
Djuradj Vasic2 July 200720 August 2007
Christian Hock21 August 200717 December 2008
Wolfgang Frank19 December 200823 March 2009
Hans Werner Moser24 March 20099 February 2010
Gino Lettieri10 February 201015 February 2012
Peter VollmannFebruary 201221 October 2013
Marc Kienle28 October 201312 April 2015
Christian Hock12 April 201530 June 2015
Sven Demandt1 July 20157 March 2016
Torsten Fröhling14 March 20166 February 2017
Rüdiger Rehm13 February 2017present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Regionalliga SüdIII13th
2000–01Regionalliga SüdIII11th
2001–02Regionalliga SüdIII6th
2002–03Regionalliga SüdIII7th
2003–04Regionalliga SüdIII7th
2004–05Regionalliga SüdIII3rd
2005–06Regionalliga SüdIII3rd
2006–07Regionalliga SüdIII1st ↑
2007–082. BundesligaII8th
2008–092. BundesligaII18th ↓
2009–103. LigaIII15th
2010–113. LigaIII4th
2011–123. LigaIII16th
2012–133. LigaIII7th
2013–143. LigaIII4th
2014–153. LigaIII9th
2015–163. LigaIII16th
2016–173. LigaIII7th
2017–183. LigaIII4th
2018–193. LigaIII3rd ↑
2019–202. BundesligaII17th ↓
2020–213. LigaIII

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↑Promoted↓ Relegated