SpVgg Unterhaching II

The SpVgg Unterhaching II was the reserve team of German football club SpVgg Unterhaching, from the Unterhaching suburb of the city of Munich, Bavaria.

At times, the team played under the name of SpVgg Unterhaching Amateure but since 2005, it carries its current name. The team's greatest success has been a single season in the tier four Regionalliga Sud in 2008–09. Since then it has been playing in the Bayernliga until being disbanded at the end of the 2014–15 season.

History

Unterhachings reserve team, for the most part of its history, played in the lower amateur leagues of Bavaria, when the club fielded a reserve side at all. The club's first team only entered the upper reaches of Bavarian football itself in the late 1970s, earning promotion to the Amateur Oberliga Bayern (III), the Bayernliga, in 1981.

With the rise of the first team, the fortunes of its reserve side improved, too, the side leaving the Munich amateur leagues for the first time in 1990, when it won promotion to the tier-six Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost.

The team remained a mid-table side, with the exception of a runners-up finish in 1992, until 1996, when it won the league and earned promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern.

In the Bezirksoberliga, Unterhaching II played for three seasons before earning another championship and being promoted to the Landesliga Bayern-Sud in 1999. In this league, the team became a promotion contender in its first season, but in the end finished third, outside the ranks that would have allowed it to move up. In its second year, it managed a second-place finish and earned promotion through the promotion round, entering the Bayernliga for 2001-02.

The first three seasons in the Bayernliga, the team performed quite well, earning upper-table finishes. From 2005, its performances fell off, culminating in a thirteenth place in 2006-07.

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