SV WEHEN WIESBADEN (Brita Arena)

3.LIGA, SV WEHEN WIESBADEN 2-0 VfL OSNABRUCK, ATTENDANCE: 2,636

After leaving behind Kyiv, I headed into Germany for a few more games. After landing at Frankfurt it was an easy train journey to Wiesbaden where the city's team were taking on Osnabruck in a 3,Liga game.

SV Wehen Wiesbaden was originally founded under the name of SV Wehen Taunusstein in 1926 and club played it's home games at the Stadion am Halbergh in Taunusstein. The club spent most of it's existence in the lower reaches of German football before reaching the 2.Bundesliga in 2007.

It was in this year that the club moved 10km away from their home town, to the nearby city of Wiesbaden, to play their home games as the newly constructed Brita Arena.

Wiesbaden was then added to the club's original name. Wiesbaden lasted two seasons in the second tier before being relegated to the newly created 3.Liga in 2009. The club have remained in this league ever since.

The Brita Arena has a capacity of 13,000 and is your typical modern new build. Indeed if the club wanted to move to back to Taunusstein then they could probably take the ground with them, it would just need someone with a rudimentary knowledge of Meccano!

A crowd of 2,636 watched 8th placed Wiesbaden beat 12th placed Osnabruck by two goals to nil, courtesy of a Michael Wiemann penalty (28) and a Benyamina Soufian (86) strike.

The game was ok as a spectacle, but Osnabruck will rue not getting something out of this game. Their final ball, when in good positions left a lot to be desired. That would be of no concern to Wiesbaden who secured the victory to leave themselves firmly ensconced in mid-table.

Post match I wandered into town, which is about 20 minutes from the ground, and found a local brauhaus where the food and drink went down a treat.