Borussia Mönchengladbach II

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]

The club's honours:

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

• 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.

As of 1 July 2019[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Möritz Nicolas (on loan to 1.FC Union Berlin) 2 DF  ENG Mandela Egbo 3 DF  GER Marco Komenda 4 DF  GER Florian Mayer 5 MF  GER Marvin Tenbült 6 DF  GER Marcel Benger 7 MF  GER Joel Richter 8 MF  GER Michel Lieder 9 FW  GER Mike Feigenspan 12 FW  GER Ba-Muaka Simakala 13 MF  GER Aaron Herzog 14 FW  GRE Charalambos Makridis

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW  BIH Mirza Mustafic 16 FW  GER Alperen Sahin 17 DF  GER Justin Hoffmanns 19 DF  GER Bastian Strietzel 20 MF  GER Louis Ferlings 21 FW  GER Thomas Kraus 22 MF  GER Nils Rütten 23 DF  GER Oliver Stang 25 FW  GER Maximilian Müller 25 FW  GER Jan-Niklas Pia 29 GK  GER Tim-Oliver Hiemer

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

No. Pos. Nation Player – GK  GER Janis Blaswich (On loan to Hansa Rostock)

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