SC Freiburg II is the

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SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg () or just Freiburg, is a German football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bund ...

, based in

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

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. The team played as SC Freiburg Amateure until 2005. The team has reached the first round of the

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, the German Cup, once, in 2001–02. They were promoted to the 3. Liga for the first time in 2021, after winning the

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History

The club's reserve team for the most part of its history played in the lower amateur leagues. It made a three-season appearance in the tier four

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from 1983 to 1986, with a third place in 1985 as its best result, but then took until 1994 to return to this league. In 1998 the team won

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to the

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after a league championship in the Verbandsliga.Historic German league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv. Retrieved 22 January 2015 SC Freiburg II spent the next ten seasons at this level as an upper table side, never finishing outside the top seven, before another league championship in 1998 took the team to the Regionalliga Süd. After four seasons at this league the team became part of the new

in 2012. After a seventh place in its first season in the league the team finished runner-up in 2013–14 but declined the right to take part in the promotion round to the 3. Liga and instead remained in the Regionalliga.Oberliga Baden-Württemberg tables and results
Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 22 January 2015Regionalliga Süd tables and results
Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 22 January 2015 At the end of the 2015–16 season Freiburg was

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back to the Oberliga. A

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win in 2001 qualified it for the first round of the

2001–02 DFB-Pokal The 2001–02 DFB-Pokal was the 59th season of the annual German football cup competition. 64 teams competed in the tournament of six rounds which began on 24 August 2001 and ended on 11 May 2002. In the final Schalke 04 defeated Bayer Leverkusen ...

, the German Cup, where it lost to

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. After a 1–1 draw vs.

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on 5 June 2021, SC Freiburg II confirmed their promotion to the 2021–22 3. Liga.

Honours

** Winners: 2021 ** Runners-up: 2014 *

** Winners: 2008,2017 *

** Winners: 1998 ** Runners-up: 1996 *

** Winners: 2001 ** Runners-up: 2005

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: * With the introduction of the

Regionalliga The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the four ...

s in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012, the number of Regionalligas was increased from three to five with all Regionalliga Süd clubs except the Bavarian ones entering the new

Key

Players

Current squad

References

External links

*
SC Freiburg II at Weltfussball.de
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