SpVgg Greuther Fürth II


The SpVgg Greuther Fürth II is the reserve team of the German :Category:German football clubs|association football club SpVgg Greuther Fürth from the city of Fürth, Bavaria.
Since 2008, it plays in the tier four Regionalliga Süd. The team plays as an under-23 side as the rules on using under-23 players in the first and second teams are less strict.

History

The side originated as the reserve team of the SpVgg Fürth, a club that merged with TSV Vestenbergsgreuth in 1996 to form the current SpVgg Greuther Fürth. The side was known as SpVgg Fürth Amateure or SpVgg Fürth II, depending whether the first team was playing in professional football or not at the time.
Under the name of SpVgg Fürth Amateure the side achieved promotion to the third division Amateurliga Bayern North in 1958 after a championship in the northern division of the 2nd Amateurliga Mittelfranken. The team lasted for only two seasons at this level, coming 12th in 1959 and last in the following year and being relegated back down.
The amateur team of SpVgg Fürth was not a founding member of the Landesliga Bayern-Nord in 1963, unlike the second team of traditional rival 1. FC Nürnberg, and did not appear in the higher reaches of Bavarian football in the years to come.
With the decline of the senior team in the 1980s, which suffered at first relegation from the 2. Bundesliga in 1983, followed by another drop, from the Bayernliga to the Landesliga in 1987, the fortunes of the reserve side declined, too. When the senior team recovered, returning to the Bayernliga in 1991 and becoming a founding member of the new Regionalliga Süd in 1994, the reserve team improved, too. In 1994, the side earned promotion to the tier-five Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken, having finished runners-up in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Nord.
While in the Bezirksoberliga, the team changed its name to SpVgg Greuther Fürth Amateure in 1996, after the merger and promotion of the senior team. It played as a top-level side in this league until 1999–2000, when a league title earned it promotion to the Landesliga.
The side played for only one season at this level, taking out another league title immediately and earning another promotion, to the Bayernliga. At this level, the side remained until 2008, when the introduction of the 3. Liga allowed for five Bavarian teams to be promoted to the Regionalliga, with runners-up SpVgg Greuther Fürth II being one of them.
In between, in 2005, a change in the rules meant that all reserve sides, regardless of the status of the first team, would now carry a Roman numeral to indicate its status, SpVgg Greuther Fürth Amateure therefore became SpVgg Greuther Fürth II.
From 2008, the team has played in the tier-four Regionalliga Süd, with a fourth place in 2010–11 as its best result. In 2012, the league was restructured, so they moved to the Regionalliga Bayern where they finished in mid table in its first two seasons there.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

The clubs recent managers were:
ManagerStartFinish
Reiner Geyer1 July 200630 June 2009
Frank Kramer1 July 200930 June 2011
Konrad Fünfstück1 July 201131 December 2012
Ludwig Preis1 January 201320 February 2013
Mario Himsl21 February 201330 June 2013
Ludwig Preis1 July 201330 June 2014
Mirko Reichel1 July 201422 February 2015
Thomas Kleine1 March 2015present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–00Bezirksoberliga MittelfrankenVI1st ↑
2000–01Landesliga Bayern-MitteV1st ↑
2001–02BayernligaIV5th
2002–03BayernligaIV9th
2003–04BayernligaIV4th
2004–05BayernligaIV12th
2005–06BayernligaIV4th
2006–07BayernligaIV2nd
2007–08BayernligaIV2nd ↑
2008–09Regionalliga SüdIV11th
2009–10Regionalliga SüdIV11th
2010–11Regionalliga SüdIV4th
2011–12Regionalliga SüdIV6th
2012–13Regionalliga BayernIV12th
2013–14Regionalliga BayernIV9th
2014–15Regionalliga BayernIV14th
2015–16Regionalliga BayernIV9th
2016–17Regionalliga BayernIV
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