1. FC Kaiserslautern II


1. FC Kaiserslautern II is the reserve team of German association football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern, based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. Historically the team has played as 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure until 2005.
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 tier-three Amateurliga Südwest in 1957. It won a league championship in 1960 and 1968 but was not entitled to promotion to professional level. In the seasons in between the team often played against relegation rather than for the league championship, its best other results being runners-up finishes in 1970 and 1973. The latter allowed the team entry to the German amateur football championship where it reached the final where it lost 1–0 to SpVgg Bad Homburg.
In 1978, when the Oberliga Südwest was introduced, the team qualified for this new league which it would belong to, with the exception of the 1982–83 season, until 1992. It 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 above, a league newly introduced in 1994. It played in the Regionalliga West/Südwest until 2000, in the Regionalliga Süd in 2007 and the Regionalliga West until 2012. It had its best Regionalliga result in the latter when it finished runners-up in 2009. In between the team was relegated from the Regionalliga in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2007 but each time won promotion back to the league.
In 2012 the team became part of the new Regionalliga Südwest, where it has been playing since.
The team has also won the South West Cup on three occasions, in 1979, 1997 and 2008, as well as having made a number of losing final appearances. Through this competition it qualified for the first round of the German Cup on three occasions: 1979–80, 1981–82 and 1997–98. It reached the second round twice and, on the third participation, was drawn against its own first team in 1997–98 where it lost 0–5.

Honours

The team's honours:
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
2000–01Oberliga SüdwestIV1st↑
2001–02Regionalliga SüdIII15th
2002–03Regionalliga SüdIII13th
2003–04Regionalliga SüdIII18th↓
2004–05Oberliga SüdwestIV2nd↑
2005–06Regionalliga SüdIII13th
2006–07Regionalliga SüdIII18th↓
2007–08Oberliga SüdwestIV2nd↑
2008–09Regionalliga WestIV2nd
2009–10Regionalliga WestIV8th
2010–11Regionalliga WestIV4th
2011–12Regionalliga WestIV9th
2012–13Regionalliga SüdwestIV3rd
2013–14Regionalliga SüdwestIV4th
2014–15Regionalliga SüdwestIV4th
2015–16Regionalliga SüdwestIV10th
2016–17Regionalliga SüdwestIV