1. FC Kaiserslautern II
Club crest
Full name1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V.
Founded2 June 1900 (club)
GroundSportpark Rote Teufel
ManagerAlexander Bugera
LeagueOberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar
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1. FC Kaiserslautern II is the reserve team of German association football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern, based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team competes in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, the fifth tier of German football. Prior 2005, the team was named 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure.

The team has reached the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on three occasions, advancing to the second round twice as its best-ever result. The team has played as high as the Regionalliga, courtesy to league titles in the Oberliga Südwest.

History

1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure made a first appearance in the third-tier Amateurliga Südwest in 1957. They won the championship in 1960 and 1968, but were not entitled to promotion to professional level. In the intervening seasons, Kaiserslautern Amateure were often fighting for relegation rather than the league championship, with their best finishes being runners-up in 1970 and 1973.[1] The latter allowed the team entry to the German amateur football championship, where they lost 1–0 to SpVgg Bad Homburg in the final.[2]

In 1978, when the Oberliga Südwest was introduced, Kaiserslautern Amateure qualified for this new league which it would belong to, with the exception of the 1982–83 season, until 1992. They won promotion back to the Oberliga in 1983 and 1994 with titles in the Verbandsliga Südwest. The team became a yo-yo team between the Oberliga and the Regionalliga, a league newly introduced in 1994. They played in the Regionalliga West/Südwest until 2000, in the Regionalliga Süd in 2007, and the Regionalliga West until 2012. Kaiserslautern II had its best Regionalliga result in the latter, when they finished as runners-up in 2009. In between, the team was relegated from the Regionalliga in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2007, but won promotion back to the league each time.[3]

In 2012, Kaiserslautern II became part of the new Regionalliga Südwest, where they competed until 2017 when they were relegated to the fifth-tier Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.[3]

Kaiserslautern II have also won the Southwestern Cup on three occasions, in 1979, 1997 and 2008, as well as having made a number of losing final appearances. Through this competition, the club qualified for the German Cup on three occasions: 1979–80, 1981–82 and 1997–98. They reached the second round twice and were also drawn against their own first team in the 1997–98 season, losing 5–0.[4]

Current squad

As of 4 September 2022[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Elija Wohlgemuth
2 DF Germany GER Marco Müller
4 DF Germany GER Luca Heckmann
5 DF Germany GER Benjamin Franz
6 MF Germany GER Aaron Basenach
7 MF Germany GER Mike Scharwath
8 MF Germany GER Christian Dombaxi
9 FW Germany GER Lennart Thum
10 MF Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Phinees Bonianga
11 FW Germany GER Angelos Stavridis
12 GK Germany GER Silas Baur
13 MF Germany GER Lucas Leibrock
14 MF Serbia SRB Irfan Catovic
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Germany GER Marius Bauer
18 DF Luxembourg LUX Emre Erkus
19 FW Finland FIN Anton Eerola
21 DF Germany GER Pascal Nicklis
22 DF Italy ITA Maurizio De Vico
23 MF Germany GER Constantin Fath
24 DF Germany GER Simon Ludwig
25 MF Armenia ARM Jean-René Aghajanyan
26 MF Germany GER Rilind Kabashi
27 MF Germany GER Maximilian Lorenz
30 FW Germany GER Tobias Klein
— GK Germany GER Benjamin Klein
— GK Germany GER Jonas-Janko Weyand

Honours

1. FC Kaiserslautern II honours
Honour No. Years
Amateurliga Südwest 2 1959–60, 1967–68
Oberliga Südwest 3 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01
Verbandsliga Südwest 2 1982–83, 1993–94
Southwestern Cup 3 1978–79, 1996–97, 2007–08

Seasons

The season-by-season performance of the club:[1]

Key

↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated
Season Division Tier Position
2000–01 Oberliga Südwest IV 1st↑
2001–02 Regionalliga Süd III 15th
2002–03 Regionalliga Süd 13th
2003–04 Regionalliga Süd 18th↓
2004–05 Oberliga Südwest IV 2nd↑
2005–06 Regionalliga Süd III 13th
2006–07 Regionalliga Süd 18th↓
2007–08 Oberliga Südwest IV 2nd↑
2008–09 Regionalliga West 2nd
2009–10 Regionalliga West 8th
2010–11 Regionalliga West 4th
2011–12 Regionalliga West 9th
2012–13 Regionalliga Südwest 3rd
2013–14 Regionalliga Südwest 4th
2014–15 Regionalliga Südwest 4th
2015–16 Regionalliga Südwest 10th
2016–17 Regionalliga Südwest 16th↓
2017–18 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar V 3rd
2018–19 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 9th
2019–20 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 2nd[lower-alpha 1]
2020–21 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 2nd[lower-alpha 1]
2021–22 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 14th
2022–23 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 7th
  1. 1 2 Not finished due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012, the number of Regionalligas was increased from three to five with all Regionalliga Süd clubs except the Bavarian ones entering the new Regionalliga Südwest.

References

  1. 1 2 Historic German league tables (in German). Das Deutschen Fußball-Archiv. Retrieved 7 June 2023
  2. ↑ "(West) Germany – Amateur Championship Finals". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 "1. FC Kaiserslautern II – Historical results". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "DFB-Pokal 1997/1998 – 1. Round". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "U23 Archive – FCK DE" (in German). 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
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