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57-604: Borussia Dortmund II are the reserve team of Borussia Dortmund , currently playing in the 3. Liga , at Stadion Rote Erde . Until 2005, the team played as Borussia Dortmund Amateure . The team won the Regionalliga West in 2009 and became the second reserve team to play in the third tier, after Bayern Munich II . They were immediately relegated back to the fourth level, but won the Regionalliga West again in 2011–12 . They were relegated in 2015 and didn't return until

114-410: A Regionalliga licence and relegated. This meant, the three last-placed teams in the league that season were after all reprieved and not relegated. For Rot-Weiss Essen this was especially bitter, having been the best-supported club in the league for the second year running, with 5,955 spectators per home game. The gap to the second best supported team however, the 1. FC Saarbrücken, was not as wide as in

171-466: A 5–3 win at Wuppertaler SV on the final day of the 2011–12 season , the team gained promotion into the 3. Liga again. On 9 August 2014, the Stadion Rote Erde was sold out with 9,999 spectators for the first time in its history at a home match of Borussia Dortmund II, for a match against SSV Jahn Regensburg in the 2014–15 3. Liga season . The game was part of a family day and the inauguration of

228-723: A Regionalliga title while the league operated as the third tier of the league system, the Regionalliga Süd in 2003–04. VfB Stuttgart Amateure, in 2000–01, is the only other reserve team to have finished on a promotion rank in the Regionalliga area, alongside Bayern. With both teams inelegble for promotion the next placed teams moved up instead. The 3. Liga championship-winning reserve teams: The Regionalliga championship-winning reserve teams: The Oberliga championship-winning reserve teams. The list includes all current and former Oberligas or equivalent leagues, currently on level five of

285-434: A clear gap to a non-relegation rank, while 16th placed Borussia Mönchengladbach reserves was on equal points with no less than four other clubs. All three however were spared from relegation. The top goal scorers in the second season of the league were Ercan Aydogmus and Christian Knappmann, having both scored 16 goals each. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Rot-Weiss Essen, Waldhof Mannheim and Bonner SC were all refused

342-560: A fan shop near the stadium. On 5 June 2021, Borussia Dortmund II confirmed their promotion back to the 3. Liga, as they won the 2020–21 Regionalliga West with a 2–1 win over Wuppertaler SV . The recent season-by-season performance of the club: Borussia Dortmund II plays their matches at the Stadion Rote Erde, which has a capacity of 9,999 for league matches. The stadium belongs to the City of Dortmund . The stadium came under criticism several times due to inadequate space, lack of soil heating and

399-590: A format that could have enabled all Regionalliga champions to be promoted. On that date, the Bundestag delegates voted to grant the Südwest and West champions two direct promotions indefinitely starting in 2021. A third direct promotion place will be assigned according to a rotation principle among the Regionalliga Nord, Nordost and Bavarian champions. The representatives from the remaining two Regionalligen will determine

456-579: A two-legged promotion play-off for the last promotion spot. In 2020, the three direct promotion spots will go to the Südwest champions and the champions of the two leagues that participated in the promotion play-off in the previous season, while the Nordost and West champions participate in the play-off. This format was initially installed as a temporary solution until the DFB-Bundestag in September 2019 decided on

513-594: Is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern , Regionalliga Nordost , Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Südwest . The league came into existence in August 2008 and was formed from the five Regionalliga clubs in its region which did not achieve admittance to the new 3rd Liga and thirteen Oberliga clubs. The number of clubs in the new league was set at eighteen. Along with

570-442: Is restricted to seven per regional division. Reserve teams of 3. Liga clubs are also not permitted to play at Regionalliga level. Until 2014 reserve teams in the form of under 23 sides were compulsory for Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga clubs, this rule was however dropped at the end of the 2013–14 season. Reserve teams at this level are generally run as under 23 side and have U 23 attached to their name as special exceptions apply to

627-430: The 2006–07 Regionalliga West season . In 2008 , Borussia Dortmund II finished thirteenth in the Regionalliga and failed to qualify for the new 3. Liga by four points. A year later, the team won the Regionalliga West three points ahead of Kaiserslautern under their coach Theo Schneider. Finishing third from bottom in the 2009–10 season , the team was relegated. In summer 2011, David Wagner took over as coach. With

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684-708: The 2021–22 season . The second team of Borussia Dortmund initially played at the Kreisliga and was promoted to the Bezirksliga in 1957. After a third-place finish in 1957, they were promoted into the Landesliga Westfalen in 1964. In 1969, Borussia Dortmund II won the Landesliga Westfalen eight points clear of Teutonia Lippstadt , gaining promotion into the Westfalenliga , the highest amateur league in Westphalia at

741-741: The DDR-Oberliga , in the DDR-Liga , and have achieved division titles at this level. As an example, the reserve team of BFC Dynamo , the BFC Dynamo II, under coach Werner Voigt won the DDR-Liga Staffel A in the 1985–86 season. Reserve teams in Germany are permitted to play at all league levels except the top two divisions. Another restriction applies to the Regionalligas, where the number of reserve teams

798-544: The Oberliga Westfalen . The team finished fourth on the table in 1989, 1991 and 1993, before finishing eighth in 1994, missing out promotion into the then newly established Regionalliga West/Südwest . Meanwhile, the team reached the final of the 1991 Westphalia Cup , losing 1–6 against Arminia Bielefeld . Because of that, the team was eligible for the first and only time for the DFB Cup . The team met 1. FC Saarbrucken in

855-548: The Regionalligas was decided upon. The number of leagues was now expanded to five, with the Regionalliga West losing clubs from the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. The new system came into operation with the start of the 2012–13 season. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven. The later however is planned to be achieved through the shifting of clubs between leagues rather than restricting

912-538: The Wuppertaler SV were relegated from the 3rd Liga to the Regionalliga . Wormatia Worms had left the league for the southern division to avoid an uneven number of teams between the three Regionalligas after two of the three 3rd Liga outgoers had been from the west. The 2010–11 season saw the league feature thirteen clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia, of which eight are from Westphalia. Of the other five, two were from

969-486: The following season in the Regionalliga , the team finished fourth last, but avoided the drop as Wuppertaler SV and FC 08 Homburg were relegated for failing to pay dues to the league. In 2000 , under coach Edwin Boekamp , the team managed a mid-table finish and qualified for the newly created two-tier Regionalliga. The team was relegated at the end of the 2000–01 season , finishing second last, but won promotion back into

1026-679: The Amateurliga was set at the second tier as there were no 2. Oberligas in those two regions. An early forerunner of these teams was the 1. FC Saarbrücken II which played in the Ehrenliga Saarland from 1948 to 1951 in place of its senior team which played the 1948–49 season in Division 2 in the French football league system and in a friendlies competition, the Saarland Cup , until 1951. From

1083-711: The Bundesliga side and wanted to focus on its under 17 and under 19 sides instead and to loan out young players. This trend continued at the end of the 2014–15 season when both Dynamo Dresden and Chemnitzer FC withdrew their reserve teams, instead favouring a competition of friendly matches that could include other reserve teams from the region as well as the Czech Republic . Apart from these two teams, 1. FC Saarbrücken II , 1. FC Union Berlin II , VfL Bochum II , SpVgg Unterhaching II and SV Wehen Wiesbaden II were also withdrawn at

1140-497: The DFB in 1951 to field an amateur reserve team within the league system. Reserve teams started earning promotion to the third tier, the highest level they were permitted to play, in the late 1950s. The third tier of league football in the West was generally quite regionalised with most leagues carrying the title 1. Amateurliga in their name. The exception was Northern Germany and West Berlin, where

1197-1042: The DFB-Pokal in exchange for the right to play in the 3. Liga. The following reserve teams have competed in the DFB-Pokal, sorted by the last season they have played in the competition: Reserve teams have been quite successful in the German amateur football championship during the competitions existence from 1950 to 1998. Of the 48 German amateur championships played eleven were won by reserve teams. These eleven were won by six different teams, with Hannover 96 Amateure and SV Werder Bremen Amateure each winning three while VfB Stuttgart Amateure won two. Three more teams, Fortuna Düsseldorf Amateure , 1. FC Köln Amateure and KSV Holstein Kiel Amateure each won one championship. Further more, FC Bayern Munich Amateure made two losing final appearances while 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure and Eintracht Braunschweig Amateure made one. The 1966 final

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1254-612: The German Cup has been the 1993 finals appearance of Hertha BSC Amateure , where it lost 1–0 to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . A number of other reserve teams have progressed to the later rounds of the competition. There has also been a number of instances of a reserve side being drawn against their own senior team, these being FC Bayern Munich Amateure against FC Bayern Munich in 1976–77 (3–5), 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1997–98 (0–5) and VfB Stuttgart Amateure against VfB Stuttgart in 2000–01 (0–3). After

1311-656: The German league system: Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the Western German Football Association based in Duisburg . It is one of the five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western German state association, the Regionalliga is currently a level 4 division of the German football league system . It

1368-513: The German reunion brought an influx of former East German teams and their reserve sides as well as three new Amateur-Oberligas in the East. In 1994 the Regionalligas were reintroduced, now as the new third tier of league football, with five regional divisions. Reserve teams were permitted to enter this league provided they had qualified. The number of Regionalliga divisions was reduced to two in 2000. From 2005 onwards reserve teams of professional sides in

1425-617: The Kreisliga, the eighth tier. Below the Kreisliga reserve teams can play at the same level as the senior team but not in the same league. If this is the case a club has to designate a first and second team before the start of the season. In post-Second World War West Germany and the Saarland , which joined the former in 1957, reserve teams of professional sides playing at Oberliga and 2. Oberliga level, termed Vertragsspielervereine (English: Clubs with contracted players), were granted permission by

1482-422: The Saarland while the remaining three were from Rhineland-Palatinate. Unlike the previous two seasons, no club from outside those three states competes in the league this year. It also featured a record ten reserve teams, leaving only eight first teams in the league. The league was won by Preußen Münster , who finished with a ten-point gap to second-placed Eintracht Trier . In October 2010, another reform of

1539-408: The champion. At the bottom of the table, 1. FC Kleve and BV Cloppenburg suffered relegation, while 16th placed Wormatia Worms was spared because FSV Oggersheim , in 12th place, did not apply for a licence for the next season. The league had an average number of 1,372 spectators by game, with Rot-Weiss Essen with 7,077 per game by far the best supported club in the league. Second in this ranking

1596-549: The end of the season. Reserve teams generally average less spectators than first teams in the same league. Since the establishment of the 3. Liga, for example, reserve teams have generally taken up the bottom spots in the spectator tables of the league, the exception being Borussia Dortmund II which fared slightly better. While the 3. Liga, in recent seasons, averaged around 5,000 spectators per home game reserve sides like VfB Stuttgart II and Werder Bremen II have averaged between 1,000 and 1,500 spectators. Notable exceptions in

1653-495: The first reserve team to win a division in 1971–72, repeating this success the following season with Dynamo Dresden II also taking out a league title. Chemie Halle II and Carl Zeiss Jena II won division titles in 1975–76 but all eleven reserve teams were removed from the league and relegated at the end of that season. At the end of the 1983–84 season the DDR-Liga was reduced to two divisions again and reserve teams were re-admitted to

1710-473: The first round of the 1991/92 season, with the Saarland club going through at 5–2 in front of 1,800 fans at the Stadion Rote Erde. Borussia Dortmund continued to play in the Oberliga Westfalen and was runner-up behind FC Gütersloh in 1995. In 1998, under the guidance of coach Michael Skibbe , the team were crowned champions of Oberliga Westfalen with a ten-point advantage ahead of FC Schalke 04 II . In

1767-400: The form of under 23 teams, were not compulsory anymore for Bundesliga and 2. 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

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1824-511: The formation of this league there was a merger of the Oberligas below it, with Nordrhein and Westfalen forming the new NRW-Liga , while the Oberliga Südwest remained independent. With the inception of the new Regionalliga West in 2008, there were now three Regionalligas which form the fourth tier of the German football league system, these were: The league covered the same region, as

1881-473: The fourth promoted club in two-legged playoffs. At the end of March 2023, the Western German Football Association (WDFV) confirmed the Regionalliga West's status as a professional league for the first time with regard to the 2023–24 season's licensing procedure. North Rhine-Westphalia had already classified the league as such in the 2020–21 season to enable the "numerous professional footballers" to continue practicing their profession. At that time, for example,

1938-657: The game operations in the four remaining regional leagues had been stopped prematurely. The Regionalliga West was formed in 2008 with 18 clubs, five from the two Regionalligas (III), four each from the Oberligas Südwest, Nordrhein and Westfalen (IV) and one from the Oberliga Nord (IV). The founding members were: From the Regionalliga Nord : From the Regionalliga Süd : From the Oberliga Nordrhein : From

1995-514: The late 1950s reserve teams started to win league titles in their respective Amateurligas. While they were permitted to play in the German amateur championship they could not achieve promotion to the leagues above. With the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 the Oberligas and 2. Oberligas were replaced by the Bundesliga and five Regionalligas below. The Amateurligas remained as the third tier and

2052-424: The latest instance, a rule change was implemented that prevent first and reserve teams being drawn against each other unless it was the final. Reserve teams qualified for the German Cup through success in their respective Verbandspokal , one of currently twenty one regional cup competitions who also act as qualifying for the first round of the German Cup. At the end of the 2007–08 season reserve teams were banned from

2109-570: The league for the following season, while Waldhof Mannheim crossed over from the southern division to the west. The second edition of the competition was won by the 1. FC Saarbrücken, a club freshly promoted from the Oberliga who had played in the Bundesliga in the past but fallen down the ranks in the league system. 1. FCS beat Sportfreunde Lotte by eight points to the top spot. At the bottom end, Eintracht Trier and Wormatia Worms, two clubs from Rhineland-Palatinate, were in 17th and 18th spot with

2166-528: The league under coach Horst Köppel the following year. After a fifth-place finish in the 2002–03 season, the team stayed in the Regionalliga for a further two years and was relegated back to the Oberliga at the end of the 2004–05 campaign on goal difference behind Chemnitzer FC . The team again returned after one year, this time under Theo Schneider , and avoided relegation on goal difference ahead of Holstein Kiel in

2223-481: The league with five reserve teams earning promotion. Dynamo Berlin II won a third championship in the second division in 1985–86, the last of any reserve team. The last two reserve teams to compete in the DDR-Liga were Dynamo Dresden II and Dynamo Berlin II, with both leaving the league after the 1988–89 season. No reserve team ever reached the final of the FDGB-Pokal , the premier East German cup competition. In 1991

2280-428: The now defunct Regionalliga West/Südwest did from 1994 to 2000. It also shares its name with the "old" Regionalliga West , which operated from 1963 to 1974, but this league only covered the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2008–09, with BV Cloppenburg , it included a club from Lower Saxony , while in 2009–10, with Waldhof Mannheim , a club from Baden-Württemberg played in the league. This moving-around of clubs

2337-401: The overall number of reserve teams. As four teams were relegated from the 3rd Liga starting at the end of the 2018–19 season, the Regionalliga West champions, along with their counterparts from the Nordost and Südwest, were promoted directly to the 3rd Liga. The West was chosen by a draw. The remaining two champions also determined by the same draw, from the Regionalliga Nord and Bayern, played

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2394-420: The poor condition of the infrastructure. Because of this, Borussia Dortmund is considering the purchase of the stadium. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. German reserve football teams Until 2005, reserve teams of professional sides carried the title Amateure behind the club name to distinguish between

2451-435: The premier German Cup competition. Arguably the greatest success of any reserve team has been the achievement of Hertha BSC Amateure which reached the German Cup final in 1992–93. Additional achievements have been the eleven titles won by reserve teams in the now defunct German amateur football championship . In the former East Germany, reserve teams were at times permitted to play at the second tier of league football, below

2508-451: The previous year, Saarbrücken attracting 4,796 spectators a game. Bayer Leverkusen II was once more the least-best supported team but managed to raise its average to 401 spectators by game. Overall, support for the league in its second yearwent up. The teams promoted from the Oberliga at the end of the season were FC 08 Homburg , SC Wiedenbrück and the reserves of Arminia Bielefeld . The reserves of Borussia Dortmund, 2009 champions, and

2565-554: The professional and reserve team of a club while all other reserve teams carried the Roman numeral II behind the club name as a distinction. Since 2005 all reserve teams carry the Roman numeral, regardless of the status of the first team. Any additional reserve teams carry the following Roman numeral behind the club's name. From 1974 to 2008 reserve teams were permitted to compete in the DFB-Pokal ,

2622-597: The recent past have been the Munich derby between FC Bayern Munich II and TSV 1860 Munich II , which have drawn near-capacity crowds of 12,000 at the Grünwalder Stadion in the Regionalliga Bayern and, on occasion, have been broadcast live on television. The down side of this expanded interest has been the need for heavy police presence to control the rival fan groups. The greatest success of any reserve team in

2679-475: The spot will be awarded to the next-ranked first team. The leagues below the 3. Liga are governed by regional federations and associations and rules and regulations governing reserve teams can vary. In the Bavarian Football Association , the largest regional one in Germany, reserve teams can only play one tier below the league of the senior team from the Regionalliga Bayern , the fourth tier, to

2736-566: The status of reserve teams remained unchanged. From 1974 onwards amateur teams could qualify for the enlarged DFB-Pokal through the regional cup competitions, the Verbandspokale , which incidentally also opened the competition to reserve teams. Also in 1974 the five Regionalligas were replaced by two regional 2. Bundesligas . In 1978 the Amateurligas were renamed to Amateur-Oberligas and reduced in number to eight leagues. On both occasions

2793-462: The status of the reserve teams remained untouched. The DDR-Liga was established as the second tier of the league system in 1950 and did not initially include any reserve teams. The first reserve side to play in the league was Chemie Halle II which played there for a season in 1958, at a time when East German football followed the Soviet Unions example and played a calendar year season. The team

2850-657: The time. Three years later, the team got relegated into the Landesliga, and even into the Bezirksliga in 1974. In 1977, the team gained promotion again into the Landesliga. In the 1977–78 season, the team finished fifth, missing out the promotion play-off by just two points. The team returned to the Westfalenliga in 1983 and went on to become one of the leading teams in the league. In 1987, Borussia Dortmund II finished three points ahead of SV Langendreer 04 and gained promotion into

2907-433: The two Bundesligas were rebranded to the Roman numeral II behind the club name instead of the designation Amateure . In 2008 another major change was made to the league system when the 3. Liga was established. Reserve teams were granted the right to enter this new third division, also initially a ban on reserve teams in the league was considered, but were from then on banned from the DFB-Pokal. The number of Regionalligas

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2964-416: The use of under 23 players in both the first and second teams. While senior players can not be freely moved between the individual teams of clubs and require a four-game stand down period between team moves this rule is relaxed for under 23 players. Reserve teams are not permitted to take part in the DFB-Pokal anymore. Should a reserve team qualify for it through its league placing or a regional Verbandspokal

3021-444: Was Preußen Münster with 3,649 spectators per game while the reserve side of Bayer Leverkusen came last in this ranking, attracting only 247 spectators per home game. Sascha Mölders of Rot-Weiss Essen was by far the best scorer in the league scoring 28 times during the season, nine times more than the second-best, Christopher Kullmann . The reserve team of Fortuna Düsseldorf , 1. FC Saarbrücken and Bonner SC were promoted to

3078-542: Was done to balance out the three Regionalligas in numbers. In 2010–11, in turn, Wormatia Worms , a club nominally belonging to the West, played in the South. In its first season, the league was won by the reserve team of Borussia Dortmund , which finished three points ahead of the reserve side of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The best non-reserve side in the league was the Preußen Münster , finishing fourth, 15 points clear of

3135-504: Was expanded to three again and to five in 2012. Reserve teams of 3. Liga clubs were not permitted to enter Regionalliga level and could only rise as far as the Oberliga below. Additionally, the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga division was capped at seven but with the possibility of exceptions being granted. In 2014 a change in the regulations by the Deutsche Fußball Liga regarding reserve teams meant that such sides, in

3192-442: Was relegated immediately again despite finishing fourth because the senior team was relegated to the DDR-Liga. Reserve teams returned to the league for the 1967–68 season, now played in the autumn-spring format again and in two regional divisions, when F.C. Hansa Rostock II , FC Carl Zeiss Jena II and Rot-Weiß Erfurt II were promoted to the league. The league was expanded in 1971 to five regional divisions and BFC Dynamo II became

3249-413: Was the only one ever contested by two reserve sides when Werder Bremen beat Hannover 96. The following championship finals were played with reserve team participation: Reserve teams have taken out a number of league championships at the third tier of German league football. Apart from titles in the Amateurliga, Amateur-Oberliga and Oberliga, FC Bayern Munich Amateure is also the only team to have won

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