1. FC Kaiserslautern II

Full name	1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V.
Founded	2 June 1900 (club)
Ground	Sportpark Rote Teufel
Manager	Alexander Bugera
League	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar
2022–23	7th of 22
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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  GER Elija Wohlgemuth 2 DF  GER Marco Müller 4 DF  GER Luca Heckmann 5 DF  GER Benjamin Franz 6 MF  GER Aaron Basenach 7 MF  GER Mike Scharwath 8 MF  GER Christian Dombaxi 9 FW  GER Lennart Thum 10 MF  COD Phinees Bonianga 11 FW  GER Angelos Stavridis 12 GK  GER Silas Baur 13 MF  GER Lucas Leibrock 14 MF  SRB Irfan Catovic

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  GER Marius Bauer 18 DF  LUX Emre Erkus 19 FW  FIN Anton Eerola 21 DF  GER Pascal Nicklis 22 DF  ITA Maurizio De Vico 23 MF  GER Constantin Fath 24 DF  GER Simon Ludwig 25 MF  ARM Jean-René Aghajanyan 26 MF  GER Rilind Kabashi 27 MF  GER Maximilian Lorenz 30 FW  GER Tobias Klein — GK  GER Benjamin Klein — GK  GER Jonas-Janko Weyand

Honours

Seasons

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

Key

• 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.