Borussia Mönchengladbach II

Borussia Mönchengladbach II

Full name	Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach e.V.
Ground	Grenzlandstadion
Ground Capacity	10,000
Manager	Sven Demandt
League	Regionalliga West (IV)
2014–15	1st

Borussia Mönchengladbach II is a German association football club from the town of Mönchengladbach, North Rhine Westphalia. It is the reserve team of Borussia Mönchengladbach.

The team's greatest success has been promotion to the tier four Regionalliga West where it won a league championship in 2014–15. It has also taken part in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on one occasion, courtesy to a Lower Rhine Cup win.

History

The team first won promotion to the highest league in the Lower Rhine region, the tier four Verbandsliga Niederrhein, in 1980. It played at this level for the next seventeen seasons, generally as a mid-table side. At regular intervals the side managed to finish third but only in 1997 was it finally able to win a league championship and earn promotion to the Oberliga Nordrhein.^[1] In the same season if finally earned promotion it won the Lower Rhine Cup and thereby qualified for the German Cup for the first and only time. It entered the 1997–98 DFB-Pokal where it lost 1–0 to VfB Stuttgart in the first round.^[2]

Borussia Mönchengladbach II played in the Oberliga for the next nine seasons, finishing in the top half of the table each year. After runners-up finishes in 2003 and 2005 the team won a league championship in 2006 and earned promotion to the tier three Regionalliga Nord. It played for one season in this league, was relegated and earned another Oberliga championship the year after to return to the Regionalliga. With the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 the Regionalligas were expanded from two to three and Borussia became part of the new Regionalliga West. After a good first season the team finished on a relegation rank in its second but was spared because of a number of Regionalliga teams having their license revoked. From 2010 onwards the side improved, achieving upper table finishes which culminated in a league championship in 2015. The latter qualified the team for the promotion round to the 3. Liga, where it missed out on promotion to SV Werder Bremen II.^[3]

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Regionalliga West
- Champions: 2015
Oberliga Nordrhein
- Champions: 2006, 2008
Verbandsliga Niederrhein
- Champions: 1997
Landesliga Niederrhein
- Champions: 1980

Cup

Lower Rhine Cup
- Winners: 1997

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[1]^[3]

Season	Division	Tier	Position
2003–04	Oberliga Nordrhein	IV	3rd
2004–05	Oberliga Nordrhein		2nd
2005–06	Oberliga Nordrhein		1st ↑
2006–07	Regionalliga Nord	III	16th↓
2007–08	Oberliga Nordrhein	IV	1st ↑
2008–09	Regionalliga West		6th
2009–10	Regionalliga West		16th
2010–11	Regionalliga West		5th
2011–12	Regionalliga West		3rd
2012–13	Regionalliga West		7th
2013–14	Regionalliga West		7th
2014–15	Regionalliga West		1st
2015–16	Regionalliga West

With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

Current squad

As of 20 August 2015

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Martin Kompalla
2	DF	Joel Mero
3	DF	Christopher Lenz
4	DF	Tim Knipping
5	DF	Steffen Nkansah
6	MF	Michel Lieder
7	DF	Malte Berauer
9	FW	Mario Rodriguez
10	FW	Marlon Ritter
11	FW	Kwame Yeboah
12	DF	Wilfried Sarr
13	MF	Djibril Sow

No.	Position	Player
14	DF	Mandela Egbo
15	MF	Bilal Sezer
16	MF	Benno Mohr
17	FW	Gianluca Rizzo
18	FW	Giuseppe Pisano
19	MF	Kevin Holzweiler
20	MF	Joshua Holtby
21	FW	Thomas Kraus
22	DF	Nils Rütten
23	DF	Oliver Stang
25	MF	Tsiy William Ndenge
29	GK	Moritz Nicolas

References

1 2 Historic German football league tables (German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 23 May 2015
↑ Bor. Mönchengladbach II » Termine & Ergebnisse 1997/1998 (German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 23 May 2015
1 2 Borussia Mönchengladbach II at Fussball.de (German) accessed: 23 May 2015

External links

Official team site (German)
Borussia Mönchengladbach II at Weltfussball.de (German)

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Information	Club Reserve team Players Managers Matches Mascot

Stadia	Borussia-Park Bökelbergstadion

Seasons	1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Regionalliga West (IV) 2015–16 clubs

Alemannia Aachen Borussia Dortmund II Fortuna Düsseldorf II TuS Erndtebrück Rot Weiss Ahlen Rot-Weiss Essen 1. FC Köln II Viktoria Köln FC Kray Sportfreunde Lotte Borussia Mönchengladbach II Rot-Weiß Oberhausen SV Rödinghausen FC Schalke 04 II SSVg Velbert SC Verl SG Wattenscheid 09 FC Wegberg-Beeck SC Wiedenbrück

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