Bayer 04 Leverkusen II

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Bayer Leverkusen II
Bayer 04 Leverkusen logo.svg
Full nameBayer 04 Leverkusen II
Dissolved2014;10 years ago (2014)
Ground Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion, Platz 11
Capacity3,200
Leaguedefunct
2013–14 Regionalliga West, 8th (withdrawn)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen II was the reserve team of German football club Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Until 2005, the team played as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amateure.

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The team has qualified for the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on eight occasions, but never advanced beyond the first round. Before being withdrawn from competition at the end of the 2013–14 season the team played in the tier four Regionalliga West.

History

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amateure first entered the highest football league in the Middle Rhine region, the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, in 1978 and won the league in its fourth season there, in 1981. The team spent the next seventeen seasons in the tier-three Oberliga Nordrhein, gradually improving its results. In 1994 the Regionalliga was established as the new third tier of German football and the team won promotion to this level after an Oberliga championship in 1998. [1]

Bayer Leverkusen Amateure became a yo-yo team between the Regionalliga and Oberliga, winning promotion to the former in 1998, 2001 and 2005 but suffering relegation again each time, in 2000, 2003 and 2007. It became a more permanent member of the Regionalliga when the Oberliga Nordrhein was disbanded in 2008 and the Regionalliga West established, with the team entering the latter league. [2]

The team spent its last six seasons from 2008 to 2014 in the tier-four Regionalliga West, where its best result was an eighth place in its last season there. [3]

The team also qualified for the DFB-Pokal eight times, in 1981–82, 1989–90, 1992–93, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2003–04 and 2007–08, but never advanced past the first round. [4]

In 2014 a change in the regulations by the Deutsche Fußball Liga regarding reserve teams meant that such sides, in the form of under-23 teams, were not compulsory anymore for Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga clubs. Following this change, some reserve teams were withdrawn from competition, among them Eintracht Frankfurt II, FSV Frankfurt II and Bayer 04 Leverkusen II. Bayer 04 Leverkusen had requested the change as it did not see much potential for reserve team players in the Regionalliga to break through to the Bundesliga side and wanted to focus on its under-17 and under-19 sides instead and to loan out young players. [5]

Honours

The team's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: [6] [7]

YearDivision Tier Position
1999–2000 Regionalliga West/Südwest III16th↓
2000–01 Oberliga Nordrhein IV1st↑
2001–02 Regionalliga Nord III8th
2002–03Regionalliga Nord17th↓
2003–04Oberliga NordrheinIV4th
2004–05Oberliga Nordrhein1st↑
2005–06Regionalliga NordIII11th
2006–07Regionalliga Nord17th↓
2007–08Oberliga NordrheinIV2nd↑
2008–09 Regionalliga West 9th
2009–10Regionalliga West13th
2010–11Regionalliga West15th
2011–12Regionalliga West18th
2012–13Regionalliga West11th
2013–14Regionalliga West8th
Promoted Relegated

Stadium

The team used to play their home game at Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion, Platz 11, next to the club's main stadium, with a capacity of 3,200.

Players


Squad

As of 16 August 2022 [8]

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 the Netherlands.svg  NED Roy Steur
12 GK Flag of Germany.svg  GER Luca Novodomsky
22 GK Flag of Germany.svg  GER Maximilian Neutgens
18 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Reno Münz
4 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Sinan Solmaz
5 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Abdul-Wahid Bancé
24 DF Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  BEL Madi Monamay
27 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Filip Milojević
- DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Julius Bugenhagen
3 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Anton Bäuerle
26 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Daniel Lang
- DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Samy Jakšić
21 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Emre Aksoy
6 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Leon Köhl
17 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Jan Ecke
25 MF Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  SUI Isaiah Okafor
No.Pos.NationPlayer
33 MF Flag of Kosovo.svg  KOS Arjanit Fazlija
29 MF Flag of Denmark.svg  DEN Zidan Sertdemir
7 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Giancarlo Lore
11 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Volkan Ballicalioglu
14 MF Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Jordan Zirkzee
20 MF Flag of Morocco.svg  MAR Ayman Aourir
30 MF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Enes Yilmaz
- FW Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Abdul Sesay
- FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Mats Flock
7 FW Flag of South Korea.svg  KOR In-gyom Jung
23 FW Flag of Croatia.svg  CRO Noah Pesch
14 FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Shahin Biniazz
31 FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER David Widlarz
34 FW Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Emmanuel Frimpong
9 FW Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Iker Bravo
- FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Can Yahya Moustfa

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References

  1. Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2015
  2. Oberliga Nordrhein tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015
  3. Regionalliga West tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015
  4. DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015
  5. Regionalliga: Bayer Leverkusen meldet U23-Team ab (in German) Der Spiegel , published: 23 April 2014, accessed: 30 January 2015
  6. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  7. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  8. "Werkself". Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Retrieved 22 January 2021.