SV Werder Bremen II
GroundWeserstadion Platz 11
Capacity5,500
ChairmanKlaus-Dieter Fischer
ManagerKonrad Fünfstück
LeagueRegionalliga Nord (IV)
2022–2315th

SV Werder Bremen II is the reserve team of SV Werder Bremen. It plays in the Bremenliga, the fifth level of the German football league system, and has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal on nineteen occasions. It also has won the German amateur football championship three times, a joint record. Until 2005 the team played as SV Werder Bremen Amateure.

It plays its home matches at Weserstadion Platz 11, adjacent to the first team's ground.

History

SV Werder Bremen Amateure first entered the highest league in the state of Bremen, then the tier two Amateurliga Bremen, in 1956, winning a league title in its first season there. The team played as a top side in this league, winning another title in 1962. With the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 and the Regionalliga below the Amateurliga Bremen slipped to third tier and Werder Amateure continued to play as a strong side at this level. A runners-up finish in 1966 qualified the team for the German amateur football championship where it defeated Hannover 96 Amateure to win the first of three titles in this competition.[1] It won two more league titles in the Amateurliga in 1967 and 1968 but was knocked out early in the German amateur championship. The team continued as a top side in the league but came only eighth in 1973–74 when a top two finish was required to qualify for the Oberliga Nord, the new third tier in Northern Germany.[2] From 1974 onwards, until 2008, it was also possible for the team to qualify for the German Cup through Bremen Cup wins and it did so on nineteen occasions from 1976 to 2008.[3]

Werder Amateure won what was now the tier four Verbandsliga Bremen and earned promotion to the Oberliga in 1976, beginning an era of third division play that would last until 2012. The team played four average Oberliga Nord seasons before becoming one of the most successful teams in the league, winning championships in 1982 and 1984, and finishing runners-up in 1981, 1983 and 1992 but, as a reserve side, not being permitted to take part in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga. Through this success the team became a regular in the German amateur championship, winning titles in 1985 and 1991 and making losing appearances in the 1982 and 1993 finals.[1] In 1994 when the Regionalliga Nord was established in the region as the new third tier Werder Amateure was one of the team's qualified.[2]

The team was not quite as successful in the new Regionalliga in the era from 1994 to 2008 as it had been in the Oberliga, a third place in 1997 being its best-ever result.[4] It did however achieve its two best DFB-Pokal runs in this time, reaching the third round in 1999–2000 and 2007–08, on both occasions going out to VfB Stuttgart.[5][6] In 2008 the team was one of three reserve sides to qualify for the new 3. Liga, the new third tier of German league football. Werder Bremen II played four seasons at this level, never finishing higher than thirteenth and was relegated from the league in 2012, after 37 seasons at the third tier of German football.[7] The team entered the Regionalliga Nord again, now at the fourth tier and finished runners-up in the league in 2013–14, followed by a league championship the season after. The latter allowed the club to participate in the promotion round to the 3. Liga where it defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach II 2–0 away after a nil-all draw at home and earned promotion back to the third tier.[4]

Honours

The team's honours:

Players

Current squad

As of 9 September 2023[8]

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 Germany GER Ben Käuper
2 FW China CHN Wang Bowen
3 DF Germany GER Mathis Richter
4 DF Germany GER Alexander Höck
5 DF Germany GER Cimo Röcker
6 MF Germany GER Ricardo Felipe Schwarz
7 FW Germany GER Davis Asante
8 MF Germany GER Mikail Polat
9 FW Germany GER Philipp Kühn
10 MF Germany GER Elmin Mekic
11 FW Canada CAN Ronan Kratt
13 MF China CHN Li Xiancheng
14 FW Ecuador ECU Johan Mina
15 FW United States USA Joel Imasuen
16 FW Poland POL Maik Łukowicz
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Germany GER Jakob Löpping
18 DF Germany GER Daniel Ihendu
19 DF Germany GER David Kébé
20 GK Germany GER Jonas Horsch
21 MF Germany GER Liam Bennett Kümmritz
22 DF Germany GER Linus Urban
23 FW Japan JPN Kein Sato
24 MF Germany GER Dominik Kasper
25 MF Germany GER Mika Eickhoff
26 MF Germany GER Till Winkelmann
27 DF Germany GER Ole Schulz
28 MF United States USA Ethan Kohler
29 DF Germany GER Paul Levi Wagner
31 GK Greece GRE Spiros Angelidis
32 DF Germany GER Eugenio Junior Lopes

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[9][10]

Year Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Regionalliga Nord III 5th
2000–01 Regionalliga Nord 15th
2001–02 Regionalliga Nord 10th
2002–03 Regionalliga Nord 6th
2003–04 Regionalliga Nord 5th
2004–05 Regionalliga Nord 14th
2005–06 Regionalliga Nord 12th
2006–07 Regionalliga Nord 8th
2007–08 Regionalliga Nord 5th
2008–09 3. Liga 17th
2009–10 3. Liga 13th
2010–11 3. Liga 18th
2011–12 3. Liga 20th↓
2012–13 Regionalliga Nord IV 5th
2013–14 Regionalliga Nord 2nd
2014–15 Regionalliga Nord 1st ↑
2015–16 3. Liga III 17th
2016–17 3. Liga 17th
2017–18 3. Liga 18th↓
2018–19 Regionalliga Nord IV 3rd
2019–20 Regionalliga Nord 6th
2020–21 Regionalliga Nord – "Süd" group 1st
2021–22 Regionalliga Nord – "Süd" group 2nd

Key

Promoted Relegated

References

  1. 1 2 Deutsche Amateurmeister (in German) DFB website: German amateur football championship, accessed: 13 January 2015
  2. 1 2 Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 27 January 2015
  3. Bremen: Meister und Pokalsieger (in German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  4. 1 2 Regionalliga Nord tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 January 2015
  5. 1999–2000 DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 January 2015
  6. 2007–08 DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 January 2015
  7. 3. Liga tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 January 2015
  8. "Die U23 Mannschaft". SV Werder Bremen (in German). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  9. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  10. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
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