VfL Bochum II explained

Clubname:	VfL Bochum 1848 FG e. V. II
Fullname:	Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft eingetragener Verein II
Founded:	14 April 1938
Dissolved:	30 June 2015
Ground:	Lohrheidestadion
Capacity:	16,233
Mgrtitle:	Head coach
Season:	2014–15
Position:	Regionalliga West (IV), 16th (withdrawn)
Website:	http://www.vfl-bochum.de/
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VfL Bochum II (also known as VfL Bochum Amateure or VfL Bochum U-23) was the reserve team of German football club VfL Bochum.

The team has made two appearances in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, in 1984–85 and 2005–06. Since 2008 the team has been playing in the tier four Regionalliga West. The team was intended to be the final step between Bochum's youth setup and the first team, and was usually made up of promising youngsters between the age of 18 and 23, with a few veteran players drafted in to provide experience.

History

The team first made an appearance in the highest football league in Westphalia, the Verbandsliga Westfalen, in 1975 but failed to qualify for the new Oberliga Westfalen in 1978 and had to remain in the Verbandsliga Westfalen until 1982 when a league championship took it up to Oberliga level.^[1]

Between 1982 and 1999 the team predominantly played in the Oberliga, only interrupted by stints back in the Verbandsliga in 1988–89 and from 1993 to 1997. After its return to the Oberliga in 1997 the team was a much stronger side, winning the league in 1999 and moving up to the Regionalliga West/Südwest for a season. It played in the Oberliga again from 2001 to 2008, finishing runners-up on three occasions but not quite able to move back up to the Regionalliga again.^{[1] [2]}

In 2008 a third place allowed the team qualification to the new Regionalliga West where it has played since, finishing fourteenth in five out of six seasons between 2008 and 2014.^[3]

The team also made two appearances in the German Cup, reaching the second round in 1984–85 when it lost to VfB Stuttgart and the first round in 2005–06, when it lost to Erzgebirge Aue.^{[4] [5]}

In March 2015 the club announced that it would withdraw its reserve side from competition at the end of the 2014–15 season to concentrate on its youth teams instead.^[6]

Honours

The team's honours:

• Landesliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1975
• Verbandsliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1982
  • Runners-up: 1989, 1997
• Oberliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1999
  • Runners-up: 2001, 2003, 2005
• Westphalia Cup
  • Runners-up: 2005

Seasons since 1958–59

The season-by-season performance of the team:^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Season	League									German Cup<	--	Other competitions-->		League top scorer		Notes
	Division (Level)	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos
1957–58	Kreisliga Westfalen (VI)								1st↑	DNQ		-->
1958–59	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	19	4	7	65	37	42	2nd	DNQ		-->
1959–60	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	16	3	11	73	46	35	4th	DNQ		-->
1960–61	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	21	6	3	76	27	48	1st↑	DNQ		-->
1961–62	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	26	6	11	9	43	53	23	11th	DNQ		-->
1962–63	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	28	10	9	9	34	39	29	7th	DNQ		-->
1963–64	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	30	11	6	13	54	50	28	12th	DNQ		-->
1964–65	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	30	15	0	15	56	44	30	8th	DNQ		-->
1965–66	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	28	11	5	12	59	48	27	10th	DNQ		-->
1966–67	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	30	10	6	14	46	52	26	14th↓	DNQ		-->
1967–68	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	28	11	3	14	67	52	25	12th	DNQ		-->
1968–69	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	19	4	7	77	38	42	2nd	DNQ		-->
1969–70	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	14	6	10	71	47	34	5th	DNQ		-->
1970–71	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	28	16	5	7	48	32	37	2nd	DNQ		-->
1971–72	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	17	7	6	73	32	41	2nd	DNQ		-->
1972–73	Bezirksliga Westfalen (V)	30	24	5	1	87	11	53	1st↑	DNQ		-->
1973–74	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	32	12	8	12	53	46	32	7th	DNQ		-->
1974–75	Landesliga Westfalen (IV)	30	18	9	3	80	28	45	1st↑	DNQ		-->
1975–76	Verbandsliga Westfalen (III)	34	11	8	15	38	49	30	12th	DNQ		-->
1976–77	Verbandsliga Westfalen (III)	34	9	13	12	43	42	31	12th	DNQ		-->
1977–78	Verbandsliga Westfalen (III)	34	10	11	13	52	57	31	12th	DNQ		-->
1978–79	Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV)	30	7	14	9	32	33	28	10th	DNQ		-->			^[11]
1979–80	Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV)	30	14	8	8	51	29	36	3rd	DNQ		-->
1980–81	Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV)	30	14	5	11	53	43	33	6th	DNQ		-->
1981–82	Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV)	32	23	6	3	85	29	52	1st↑	DNQ		-->
1982–83	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	34	12	8	14	53	55	32	13th	DNQ		-->
1983–84	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	34	14	4	16	61	54	32	11th	DNQ		-->	Riemann	14
1984–85	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	34	14	5	15	45	53	33	7th	R2		-->
1985–86	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	32	10	9	13	52	47	29	11th	DNQ		-->	Will	10
1986–87	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	30	10	6	14	41	55	26	13th	DNQ		-->
1987–88	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	30	8	9	13	34	48	25	14th↓	DNQ		-->
1988–89	Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV)	30	17	10	3	60	25	44	2nd↑	DNQ		-->
1989–90	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	30	9	10	11	45	43	28	9th	DNQ		-->	Jürgens, Kovacec	10
1990–91	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	30	10	12	8	46	41	32	7th	DNQ		-->
1991–92	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	30	7	7	16	39	56	21	13th	DNQ		-->
1992–93	Oberliga Westfalen (III)	30	3	11	20	23	60	17	18th↓	DNQ		-->	Gebker	6
1993–94	Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV)	30	12	8	10	43	33	32	7th	DNQ		-->
1994–95	Verbandsliga Westfalen (V)	30	14	9	7	58	36	37	3rd	DNQ		-->			^[12]
1995–96	Verbandsliga Westfalen (V)	30	13	11	6	53	30	50	5th	DNQ		-->			^[13]
1996–97	Verbandsliga Westfalen (V)	30	17	8	5	62	28	59	2nd↑	DNQ		-->
1997–98	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	28	13	9	6	44	26	48	4th	DNQ		-->
1998–99	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	30	18	7	5	64	25	61	1st↑	DNQ		-->	Grad	17
1999–00	Regionalliga West/Südwest (III)	36	11	7	18	57	69	40	15th↓	DNQ		-->	Majewski	13
2000–01	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	36	23	7	6	87	39	76	2nd	DNQ		-->	Siebert	22
2001–02	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	16	11	7	58	42	59	5th	DNQ		-->	Joppe, Velardi	8
2002–03	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	24	5	5	79	35	77	2nd	DNQ		-->	Velardi	17
2003–04	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	17	8	9	63	39	59	3rd	DNQ		-->	Velardi	17
2004–05	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	22	4	8	78	39	70	2nd	DNQ		-->	Velardi	17
2005–06	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	15	6	13	61	52	51	6th	R1		-->	Hille	18
2006–07	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	13	5	16	61	49	44	10th	DNQ		-->	Hille	18
2007–08	Oberliga Westfalen (IV)	34	19	9	6	61	30	66	3rd↑	DNQ		-->	El-Nounou	26
2008–09	Regionalliga West (IV)	34	11	7	16	51	59	40	14th	DNQ		-->	Prokoph	12	^[14]
2009–10	Regionalliga West (IV)	34	16	9	9	50	32	57	3rd	DNQ		-->	Aydın	14
2010–11	Regionalliga West (IV)	34	8	10	16	49	64	34	14th	DNQ		-->	Freiberger	9
2011–12	Regionalliga West (IV)	36	11	8	17	42	64	41	14th	DNQ		-->	Freiberger, Wassinger	12
2012–13	Regionalliga West (IV)	38	11	13	14	47	42	46	14th	DNQ		-->	Kreyer	12
2013–14	Regionalliga West (IV)	36	8	9	19	34	53	33	14th	DNQ		-->	Kreyer	14
2014–15	Regionalliga West (IV)	34	8	6	20	46	58	30	16th	DNQ		-->	Kurt	9	^[15]

Key

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

Coaches

Head coaches since 1994–95

1994-07-01	2001-06-30	Bernard Dietz
2001-07-01	2006-04-06	Manfred Wölpper
2006-04-07	2006-06-30	Jürgen Heipertz
2006-07-01	2006-12-31	Sascha Lewandowski
2007-01-01	2011-06-30	Nicolas Michaty
2011-07-01	2013-06-30	Iraklis Metaxas
2013-07-01	2014-01-27	Dariusz Wosz
2014-01-27	2015-01-06	Thomas Reis
2015-01-06	2015-06-30	Dimitrios Grammozis

External links

• Official site
• Profile at fussballdaten.de
• Profile at weltfussball.de

Notes and References

1. http://www.f-archiv.de Historic German football league tables
2. http://www.weltfussball.de/wettbewerb/oberliga-westfalen-1992-2008/ Oberliga Westfalen tables and results
3. http://www.weltfussball.de/wettbewerb/regionalliga-west/ Regionalliga West tables and results
4. http://www.weltfussball.de/alle_spiele/dfb-pokal-1984-1985/ 1984–85 DFB-Pokal
5. http://www.weltfussball.de/alle_spiele/dfb-pokal-2005-2006/ 2005–06 DFB-Pokal
6. http://www.weltfussball.de/news/_n1484986_/bochum-meldet-u23-ab/ Bochum meldet U23 ab
7. http://www.westfalenkick.de/News/1591267139/1594417504/archiv Historic Westphalian football league tables
8. Book: Vilbusch, Friedhelm. 2011. Fußball in Westdeutschland 1945–1952. German. Deutscher Sportclub für Fußballstatistiken.
9. Book: Vilbusch, Friedhelm. 2012. Fußball in Westdeutschland 1952–1958. German. Deutscher Sportclub für Fußballstatistiken.
10. Book: Vilbusch, Friedhelm. 2013. Fußball in Westdeutschland 1958–1963. German. Deutscher Sportclub für Fußballstatistiken.
11. The Oberliga Westfalen was introduced (1978–79), which moved the Verbandsliga Westfalen down one level on the West German league pyramid.
12. The Regionalligas were reintroduced (1994–95), which moved the Verbandsliga Westfalen down one level on the German league pyramid.
13. Starting with the 1995–96 season the German Football Association introduced three points for a win.
14. The 3. Liga was introduced (2008–09), which moved the Regionalliga West down one level on the German league pyramid.
15. The VfL Bochum decided to withdraw the reserve team after the 2014–15 Regionalliga season.