Eintracht Braunschweig II (sometimes also called Eintracht Braunschweig U-23 and formerly known as Eintracht Braunschweig Amateure) is the amateur team, formerly the
reserve team
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, of German
football
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club ''
Eintracht Braunschweig
Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German association football, football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was one of the founding ...
''.
The team has made two appearances in the first round of the
DFB-Pokal
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in 1979–80 and 1980–81. Since 2019 the team has been playing its first season in the tier six
German Empire
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. 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.Horst Bläsig/Alex Leppert, ''Ein Roter Löwe auf der Brust - Die Geschichte von Eintracht Braunschweig'' (2010) , publisher: Die Werkstatt, page: 397
After
World War II
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, the team initially played in the third tier Amateurliga Niedersachsen, gaining promotion to the highest football league in
Lower Saxony
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, the
Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen
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(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
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. After the introduction of the
Bundesliga
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, the disbanding of the ''Oberliga Nord'' and the formation of the
Regionalliga Nord
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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
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(III), which had been introduced in 1974.Historic German football league tables Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 1 April 2015
After relegation from the Oberliga in 1979 the team predominantly 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
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(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.
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 played until 2018, when the senior team's relegation to the 3. Liga prompted the reserves' demotion back to the Oberliga. Eintracht closed its under-23 team following the 2018–19 season and replaced it with an amateur team which entered the Landesliga.
In 2013,
Ilter Tashkin
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Career
After playin ...
, who had not yet made an appearance in professional football at the time, became the first ever player to be
capped
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at the senior international level whilst playing for Eintracht Braunschweig II, playing for
Azerbaijan
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. A second player,
Eric Veiga
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Club career
In 2015, Veiga joined the under-19 side of Germa ...
, was capped by
Luxembourg
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in 2016.
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. Additionally, the team reached the final of the 1970
German amateur football championship
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History
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The championship w ...
, losing to
SC Jülich
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.
Honours
The team's honours:
*
German amateur championship
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History
Overview
The championship was ...
The recent season-by-season performance of the team:Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues
* With the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.