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1. FC Kaiserslautern II is the reserve team of German association football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern, based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team competes in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, the fifth tier of German football. Prior 2005, the team was named 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure.

The team has reached the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on three occasions, advancing to the second round twice as its best-ever result. The team has played as high as the Regionalliga, courtesy to league titles in the Oberliga Südwest.

History

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. The latter allowed the team entry to the German amateur football championship, where they lost 1–0 to SpVgg Bad Homburg in the final.

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.

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.

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.

Kaiserslautern II is het tweede elftal van 1. FC Kaiserslautern, een Duitse voetbalclub uit Kaiserslautern. Het team speelt in de Regionalliga Südwest, het vierde niveau van het Duitse voetbalsysteem.

Kaiserslautern II werd in 1995 opgericht als reserveteam van 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Het team heeft sindsdien in verschillende divisies gespeeld, waaronder de Regionalliga Süd, de Oberliga Südwest en de Verbandsliga Südwest. In 2012 promoveerde het team naar de Regionalliga Südwest, waar het sindsdien speelt.

Kaiserslautern II speelt zijn thuiswedstrijden in het Fritz-Walter-Stadion in Kaiserslautern. Het stadion heeft een capaciteit van 49.780 toeschouwers.

De huidige trainer van Kaiserslautern II is Stefan Kuntz. Kuntz is een voormalig Duits international die ook het Duitse nationale elftal heeft getraind.

Enkele van de meest opvallende spelers die voor Kaiserslautern II hebben gespeeld, zijn Mario Götze, Julian Draxler en Timo Werner.