1. FC Kaiserslautern II

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1. FC Kaiserslautern II
Logo 1 FC Kaiserslautern.svg
Full name1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V.
Founded2 June 1900 (club)
GroundSportpark Rote Teufel
Manager Alexander Bugera
League Oberliga 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.

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

Honours

1. FC Kaiserslautern II honours
HonourNo.Years
Amateurliga Südwest 21959–60, 1967–68
Oberliga Südwest 31994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01
Verbandsliga Südwest 21982–83, 1993–94
Southwestern Cup 31978–79, 1996–97, 2007–08

Seasons

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

Key

Promoted Relegated
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
2000–01 Oberliga Südwest IV1st↑
2001–02 Regionalliga Süd III15th
2002–03Regionalliga Süd13th
2003–04Regionalliga Süd18th↓
2004–05Oberliga SüdwestIV2nd↑
2005–06Regionalliga SüdIII13th
2006–07Regionalliga Süd18th↓
2007–08Oberliga SüdwestIV2nd↑
2008–09 Regionalliga West 2nd
2009–10Regionalliga West8th
2010–11Regionalliga West4th
2011–12Regionalliga West9th
2012–13 Regionalliga Südwest 3rd
2013–14 Regionalliga Südwest4th
2014–15 Regionalliga Südwest4th
2015–16Regionalliga Südwest10th
2016–17Regionalliga Südwest16th↓
2017–18 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar V3rd
2018–19Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar9th
2019–20Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar2nd [lower-alpha 1]
2020–21Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar2nd [lower-alpha 1]
2021–22Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar14th
2022–23Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar7th
  1. 1 2 Not finished due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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