SV Wehen Wiesbaden

Historical chart of Wehen Wiesbaden league performance after WWII

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]

Historical logo 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]

As of 2 January 2020[4]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Lukas Watkowiak 2 DF Dominik Franke (on loan from VfL Wolfsburg) 3 DF Tobias Mißner 4 DF Sascha Mockenhaupt 5 DF Benedikt Röcker 6 MF Tobias Schwede 7 MF Maximilian Dittgen 8 FW Phillip Tietz 9 FW Manuel Schäffler 10 MF Sebastian Mrowca (captain) 11 FW Nicklas Shipnoski 13 DF Jakov Medić (on loan from 1. FC Nürnberg) 14 MF Jules Schwadorf 15 MF Paterson Chato 16 DF Niklas Dams 17 MF Daniel-Kofi Kyereh 18 MF Jan Vogel

No. Position Player 19 DF Michel Niemeyer 20 DF Moritz Kuhn 21 MF Patrick Schönfeld 22 MF Marvin Ajani 24 MF Jeremias Lorch 25 GK Jan Albrecht 26 MF Marcel Titsch-Rivero 27 DF Michael Guthörl 28 MF Gökhan Gül 29 GK Jan-Christoph Bartels (on loan from 1. FC Köln) 31 GK Arthur Lyska 32 MF Stefan Aigner 33 DF Marc Wachs 34 GK Heinz Lindner 39 FW Törles Knöll (on loan from 1. FC Nürnberg) 40 MF Giona Leibold MF Sidney Friede

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

No. Position Player FW Cedric Euschen (at 1. FC Saarbrücken until 30 June 2020)