In its early years SVW was one of the strongest teams in the Taunus region and sent Otto Nicodemus to the national side in 1909 for his only cap.

After the war however, the club had only limited successes, playing in the Kreisliga Hessen but never quite making it through to the German finals.

In 1951 Helmut Schön, who became the second postwar coach of the Germany national football team some years later, started his successful career in Wiesbaden.

In 1970 they had become a bankrupt and were relegated to Landesliga Südhessen In 1965 and 1966 the SVW played for the German amateur cup, the Deutsche Amateurmeisterschaft.

The side was relegated from the Landesliga in 2008 but returned to this level in 2011, after winning a championship in the Gruppenliga Wiesbaden and earning promotion to what is now the Verbandsliga.

In 2013 it took out the Verbandsliga title to return to the Hessenliga but withdrew from the league to the Gruppenliga at the end of the 2015–16 season for financial reasons.

[2] The SVW supporters have two big rivalries to another clubs; SV Wehen Wiesbaden with whom they played a long time in the Oberliga Hessen.