SV Wehen Wiesbaden

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SV Wehen Wiesbaden

Full name

SV Wehen 1926 Taunusstein e.V.

Founded

1926

Ground

Brita-Arena
(Capacity 13,500)

Chairman

Heinz Hankammer

Manager

Christian Hock

League

2. Bundesliga

2007-08

2. Bundesliga, 8th





Home colours





Away colours

SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German football club based in Taunusstein, just outside Wiesbaden, Hesse. 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 1st in Regionelliga Süd.[1]

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Adnan Masić
2	DF	Aleš Kokot
3	DF	Robert Paul
4	DF	Dajan Simac
5	DF	Marko Kopilas
6	MF	Daniel Damm
7	MF	Enis Alushi
8	MF	Sandro Schwarz
9	FW	Dennis Schmidt (on loan from Leverkusen)
10	MF	Hajrudin Catić
11	MF	Benjamin Siegert
13	FW	Ronny König
14	DF	Nikolaos Nakas
15	DF	Benjamin Schöckel
16	DF	Kristjan Glibo
17	FW	Xie Hui (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua)

No.	Position	Player
18	DF	Vlado Jeknić
19	DF	Abdelaziz Ahanfouf
20	GK	Florian Stahl
21	MF	Jonas Grüter
22	MF	Sascha Amstätter
24	MF	Maximilian Nicu
25	FW	Bakary Diakité (on loan from Mainz)
26	DF	Torge Hollmann
27	FW	Valentine Atem
30	MF	Patrick Bick
31	MF	Christopher Hübner
32	DF	Roman Schmick
34	MF	Ertan Ekiz
35	GK	Thomas Richter
	FW	Dominik Stroh-Engel
	MF	Daniele Fiorentino