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SV Werder Bremen II
Ground	Weserstadion Platz 11
Capacity	5,500
Chairman	Klaus-Dieter Fischer [de]
Manager	Christian Brand
League	Regionalliga Nord (IV)
2022–23	15th

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:

German amateur championship:
- Champions: 1966, 1985, 1991
- Runners-up: 1982, 1993
Regionalliga Nord:
- Champions: 2015
Oberliga Nord:
- Champions: 1982, 1984
Bremen-Liga:
- Champions: 1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1976, 2024
Bremer Pokal:
- Winners: 1969, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992–95, 1997–2002, 2004, 2007

Players

Current squad

As of 1 August 2024^[8]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	GER	David Igboanugo
3	DF	GER	Mats Heitmann
5	DF	GER	Cimo Röcker
6	MF	GER	Ricardo Felipe Schwarz
7	FW	GER	Davis Asante
8	MF	GER	Mikail Polat
9	FW	GER	Jannic Ehlers
10	MF	GER	Dennis Lütke-Frie
11	FW	CAN	Ronan Kratt
13	DF	UKR	Ivan Yermachkov
15	FW	USA	Joel Imasuen
16	FW	POL	Maik Łukowicz
17	MF	GER	Patrick Götzelmann


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	DF	GER	Daniel Ihendu
19	DF	GER	David Kébé
20	GK	GER	Jonas Horsch
21	GK	GER	Sebastian Mielitz
22	DF	GER	Paul Bellmann
23	FW	JPN	Kein Sato
24	MF	GER	Dominik Kasper
25	MF	GER	Ben Ostermann
26	MF	GER	Lennart Johanns
27	DF	GER	Ole Schulz
28	MF	USA	Ethan Kohler
29	DF	GER	Paul Levi Wagner
31	GK	GRE	Spiros Angelidis

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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")		1st
2021–22	Regionalliga Nord ("Süd")		2nd
2022–23	Regionalliga Nord		15th ↓
2023–24	Bremen-Liga	V	1st ↑
2024–25	Regionalliga Nord	IV

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.

Key

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

References

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