Eintracht Braunschweig II

Eintracht Braunschweig II

Full name	Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 II
Ground	Eintracht-Stadion, B-Platz
Head coach	Henning Bürger
League	Regionalliga Nord (IV)
2015–16	9th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

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]

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.^[4][5] Additionally, the team reached the final of the 1970 German amateur football championship, losing to SC Jülich.^[6]

Honours

The team's honours:

• German amateur championship:
  • Runners-up (1): 1970
• Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen-Ost (II):
  • Champions (1): 1956
  • Runners-up (1): 1955
• Amateurliga Niedersachsen, Staffel 4 (Braunschweig) (III):
  • Champions (1): 1954
• Lower Saxony championship:
  • Champions (5): 1970, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2013^[7]
  • Runners-up (2): 1985, 2005

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the team:^[2][8]

• 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 30 September 2016^[9] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Björn Rührer 2 DF Erik Henschel 3 DF Mohammad Baghdadi 4 DF Edwin Stramiello 5 DF Gunnar Niemann 6 MF Armend Kabashi 7 MF Sulhattin Capli 8 DF Deniz Doğan 9 MF Engjell Hoti 10 MF Eros Dacaj 11 FW Gyamfi Kyeremeh 12 GK Daniel Reck

No. Position Player 13 MF Lukas Kierdorf 16 FW Luca Sasso-Sant 17 MF Eric Veiga 18 MF Luka Szagun 19 MF Omar Castro 20 FW Andrei Blejdea 21 FW Stefan Valentini 22 MF Morten Rüdiger 23 DF Braydon Manu 27 DF Florian Neuhold 38 FW Maik Łukowicz

Coaches

Current staff

Head coaches since 1997

References

External links

• Official site