TSV 1860 Munich II

The TSV 1860 Munich II (German: TSV 1860 Munchen II) is the reserve team of German football club TSV 1860 Munich, from the city of Munich, Bavaria.

Until 2005, the team played under the name of TSV 1860 Munchen Amateure. In the 2018–19 season, the team plays in the tier-five Bayernliga Sud.

Within the club, it operates as an under-21 side, designated to develop players from the youth to the first-team stage.

History

1959 to 1963

1860's amateur team first won promotion to Bavarias highest football league, then the tier-three Amateurliga Sudbayern, in 1959, when it took out the title in the 2. Amateurliga Oberbayern and then won the Oberbayern final against FSV Pfaffenhofen. The Amateurliga Sudbayern was then one of two leagues at this level in Bavaria, covering the southern half of the state while the Amateurliga Nordbayern existed in parallel in the north.

TSV 1860 Munchen Amateure, as the team was then known as, was the third reserve side to reach this level in Bavaria, pre-dated only by 1. FC Nuremberg II and FC Bayern Munich II.

The team finished an excellent second in its first year in the third division, five points behind TSV Schwaben Augsburg. The following season, 1960–61, the team won its league, with Bayern Munich's reserve side coming second. 1860's amateur side was however ineligible for promotion as reserve teams could not rise above third division level. The team also declined participation in the Bavarian championship finals against northern champions 1. FC Hasfurt as nine players had left the side already to join other clubs.

With this loss, the team was uncompetitive the following season, finishing fourteenth in the league and narrowly avoiding relegation. With the reorganisation of the German football league system in 1963, it became part of the new tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Sud after finishing fifteenth in the league when a top-seven finish was needed.

1963 to 1982

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