SV Wehen Wiesbaden

SV Wehen Wiesbaden

Full name	SV Wehen 1926 Taunusstein e.V.
Founded	1926
Ground	BRITA-Arena (Capacity: 13,500)
Chairman	Markus Hankammer
Manager	Gino Lettieri
League	3. Liga
2010-11	3.Liga, 4th
Home colours Away colours

SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse.

History

Since the beginning of the 07–08 season the club plays its homegames in nearby Wiesbaden (BRITA-Arena) and no longer in Taunusstein. In the summer of 2007 Wiesbaden has been added to the original name of SV Wehen.

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.

The club won the Hessenpokal in 1988, 1996 and 2000, which gave them berths in the German Cup in those years. In the 2000–01 season, the club gave two good performances in the German Cup, eliminating at the time Second Bundesliga side Stuttgarter Kickers with a 2–1 victory in the first round and narrowly losing 1–0 to Bundesliga giant Borussia Dortmund in extra time of their second-round match.

Historical logo of SV Wehen Taunusstein

The club competed between fourth and sixth divisions of German football for a few decades before eventually being promoted to the third division in the late 1980s. They were relegated back to the fourth division in 1995, but returned to the third-division Regionalliga Süd in 1997. The club managed to establish itself in the third division and in the 2000s, they further established themselves as one of the top teams in the Regionalliga Süd and narrowly missed promotion to the Second Bundesliga with third-place finishes in both 2005 and 2006 before finally achieving promotion to the Second Bundesliga in 2007 after finishing first in Regionalliga Süd.

The club lasted for two seasons in Germany's second division before being relegated again, now to the new 3rd Liga.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

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

Cup

• Hesse Cup
  • Winners: 1988, 1996, 2000, 2011
  • Runners-up: 1992, 2001, 2003

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Manager	Start	Finish
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	present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

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	3rd Liga	III	15th
2010-11	3rd Liga		4th
2011-12	3rd Liga

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

Current squad

As of 24 August 2011 (2011 -08-24)

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Michael Gurski 2 DF Nico Herzig 3 DF Thorsten Barg 4 DF Quido Lanzaat 5 MF Nikolas Ledgerwood 6 DF Benjamin Hübner 7 MF Marco Christ 8 DF Marcus Mann 9 FW Aziz Bouhaddouz 10 MF Orlando Smeekes 11 MF Nicolas Roth 13 FW Addy-Waku Menga 14 FW Steffen Wohlfarth

No. Position Player 15 MF Zlatko Janjić 16 DF Daniel Döringer 17 FW Panagiotis Triadis 19 DF Timo Nagy 20 MF Milad Salem 21 GK Stefan Marinovic 22 MF Pascal Bieler 23 MF Alf Mintzel 24 MF Thorsten Burkhardt 25 GK Markus Kolke 27 DF Sven Schimmel 28 MF Nils-Ole Book 33 MF Jonne Hjelm

SV Wehen Wiesbaden II squad

Manager: Thomas Brendel

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

No. Position Player GK Nico Adami GK Can Yüksel GK Alexander Loch DF George Worcester DF Robin Böcher DF Timo Becker DF Dominik Lötschert DF Hannes Schmitz DF Patrick Herget MF Boris Kolb

No. Position Player MF Dennis Hornung MF Balcan Sari MF Eugen Schiffmann MF Michael Seidelmann MF Thimo Langner MF David Schug FW Andreas Loch FW Maximillian Meuth FW Sebastian Gurok

External links

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