Eintracht Braunschweig II

Eintracht Braunschweig II
Full name Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 II
Founded 15 December 1895 (1895-12-15)
Ground Eintracht-Stadion, B-Platz
Capacity 3,000
Head coach Henning Bürger
League Regionalliga Nord (IV)
2016–17 12th
Website Club website

Eintracht Braunschweig II (sometimes also called Eintracht Braunschweig U-23 and formerly known as Eintracht Braunschweig Amateure) is the reserve team of German football club Eintracht Braunschweig.

The team has made two appearances in the first round of the DFB-Pokal in 1979–80 and 1980–81. Since 2013 the team has been playing in the tier four Regionalliga Nord.

History

The team was one of the founding members of the 1. Spielklasse Herzogtum Braunschweig, at the time one of several first tier leagues in the German Empire. Eintracht Braunschweig II even finished three times as runners-up in the league (in 1905, 1906, and 1913), each time behind the club's first team.[1]

After World War II, the team initially played in the third tier Amateurliga Niedersachsen, gaining promotion to the highest football league in Lower Saxony, the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen (II), in 1954. Eintracht Amateure won the league in 1956 but, as a reserve side, could not gain promotion into the first tier Oberliga Nord. After the introduction of the Bundesliga, the disbanding of the Oberliga Nord and the formation of the Regionalliga Nord in 1963, the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen was renamed Amateurliga Niedersachsen and was now at the third level of German football. The team continued to play at the top level of Lower Saxon football until 1975, when they won promotion to the new Oberliga Nord (III), which had been introduced in 1974.[2]

After relegation from the Oberliga in 1979 the team predominately played in the Niedersachsenliga, interrupted by stints back in the Oberliga in 1983–84 and from 1985 to 1987. In 2003, Eintracht II won promotion to the Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen (which had replaced the Oberliga Nord in 1994). When two years later the Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen was disbanded again, the team initially missed qualification for the reformed Oberliga Nord, but won promotion back into the Oberliga in 2006.[2]

The team continued to play at the Oberliga level until 2010, when it won its first ever promotion to the Regionalliga Nord (IV). Eintracht II was relegated again after just one season at the new level, but returned to the Regionalliga in 2013, where it has played since.

In 2013, Ilter Tashkin, who had not yet made an appearance in professional football at the time, became the first ever player to be capped at the senior international level whilst playing for Eintracht Braunschweig II, playing for Azerbaijan.[3] A second player, Eric Veiga, was capped by Luxembourg in 2016.[4]

The team also made two appearances in the German Cup (DFB-Pokal), in 1979–80 when it lost to 1. FC Nürnberg and in 1980–81, when it lost to Rot-Weiß Niebüll.[5][6] Additionally, the team reached the final of the 1970 German amateur football championship, losing to SC Jülich.[7]

Honours

The team's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the team:[2][9]

Year Division Position
2002–03 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen (IV) 9th
2003–04 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen 10th (relegated)
2004–05 Niedersachsenliga-Ost (V) 1st (promoted)
2005–06 Oberliga Nord (IV) 11th
2006–07 Oberliga Nord 10th
2007–08 Oberliga Nord 10th (relegated)
2008–09 Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost (V) 3rd
2009–10 Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost 1st (promoted)
2010–11 Regionalliga Nord (IV) 16th (relegated)
2011–12 Oberliga Niedersachsen (V) 8th
2012–13 Oberliga Niedersachsen 1st (promoted)
2013–14 Regionalliga Nord (IV) 13th
2014–15 Regionalliga Nord 13th
2015–16 Regionalliga Nord 9th
2016–17 Regionalliga Nord 12th
  • With the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

Players

Current squad

As of 25 August 2017[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Yannik Bangsow
2 Germany DF Erik Henschel
3 Sweden DF Filip Rettig
4 Albania DF Besfort Kolgeci
5 Greece DF Pantelis Panourgias
6 Germany MF Dominik Franke
7 Canada MF Haris Kevac
8 Germany DF Deniz Doğan
9 Germany FW Deniz Undav
10 Albania MF Eros Dacaj
11 Australia FW Milislav Popovic
No. Position Player
13 Germany DF Jonas Wand
14 Turkey MF Ahmet Canbaz
15 France MF Quentin Fouley
17 Luxembourg MF Eric Veiga
19 Germany FW Ayodele Adetula
20 Turkey MF Berkant Güner
21 Germany GK Daniel Reck
22 Albania DF Lirim Mema
27 Germany FW Nils Stettin
38 Poland FW Maik Łukowicz

Personnel

Position Name
Head coach Germany Henning Bürger
Assistant coach(es) Turkey Deniz Doğan
Germany Markus Unger

Head coaches since 1997

Name From Until
Germany Uwe Hain 19972009
Germany Christian Benbennek 20092011
Germany Henning Bürger 2011

References

  1. Horst Bläsig/Alex Leppert, Ein Roter Löwe auf der Brust - Die Geschichte von Eintracht Braunschweig (2010) (in German), publisher: Die Werkstatt, page: 397
  2. 1 2 3 Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 1 April 2015
  3. İlter Taşkın National-football-teams.com, accessed: 1 April 2015
  4. Eric Veiga National-football-teams.com, accessed: 18 June 2017
  5. 1979–80 DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 1 April 2015
  6. 1980–81 DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 1 April 2015
  7. Germany Amateur Championship 19501995 rsssf.com, accessed: 1 April 2015
  8. Lower Saxony: List of champions and cup winners (in German), published: 16 August 2011, accessed: 2 April 2015
  9. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  10. "Eintracht Braunschweig II" (in German). kicker.de. 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
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