1. FC Kaiserslautern II

1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure made a first appearance in the third-tier Amateurliga Südwest in 1957. They won the championship in 1960 and 1968, but were not entitled to promotion to professional level. In the intervening seasons, Kaiserslautern Amateure were often fighting for relegation rather than the league championship, with their best finishes being runners-up in 1970 and 1973.[1] The latter allowed the team entry to the German amateur football championship, where they lost 1–0 to SpVgg Bad Homburg in the final.[2]

In 1978, when the Oberliga Südwest was introduced, Kaiserslautern Amateure qualified for this new league which it would belong to, with the exception of the 1982–83 season, until 1992. They 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, a league newly introduced in 1994. They played in the Regionalliga West/Südwest until 2000, in the Regionalliga Süd in 2007, and the Regionalliga West until 2012. Kaiserslautern II had its best Regionalliga result in the latter, when they finished as runners-up in 2009. In between, the team was relegated from the Regionalliga in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2007, but won promotion back to the league each time.[3]

In 2012, Kaiserslautern II became part of the new Regionalliga Südwest, where they competed until 2017 when they were relegated to the fifth-tier Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.[3]

Kaiserslautern II have also won the Southwestern Cup on three occasions, in 1979, 1997 and 2008, as well as having made a number of losing final appearances. Through this competition, the club qualified for the German Cup on three occasions: 1979–80, 1981–82 and 1997–98. They reached the second round twice and were also drawn against their own first team in the 1997–98 season, losing 5–0.[4]

As of 4 September 2022[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Elija Wohlgemuth 2 DF  GER Marco Müller 4 DF  GER Luca Heckmann 5 DF  GER Benjamin Franz 6 MF  GER Aaron Basenach 7 MF  GER Mike Scharwath 8 MF  GER Christian Dombaxi 9 FW  GER Lennart Thum 10 MF  COD Phinees Bonianga 11 FW  GER Angelos Stavridis 12 GK  GER Silas Baur 13 MF  GER Lucas Leibrock 14 MF  SRB Irfan Catovic

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  GER Marius Bauer 18 DF  LUX Emre Erkus 19 FW  FIN Anton Eerola 21 DF  GER Pascal Nicklis 22 DF  ITA Maurizio De Vico 23 MF  GER Constantin Fath 24 DF  GER Simon Ludwig 25 MF  ARM Jean-René Aghajanyan 26 MF  GER Rilind Kabashi 27 MF  GER Maximilian Lorenz 30 FW  GER Tobias Klein — GK  GER Benjamin Klein — GK  GER Jonas-Janko Weyand

The season-by-season performance of the club:[1]

• Official website
• 1. FC Kaiserslautern II at Weltfussball.de (in German)