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{{short description|Reserve association football team of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, based in Germany}}
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| capacity     = 3,200
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| league       = ''Regionalliga''
| season       = 2013–14
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'''Bayer 04 Leverkusen II''' was the [[German reserve football teams|reserve team]] of German football club [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]]. Until 2005, the team played as '''Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amateure'''. 

The team has qualified for the [[DFB-Pokal]], the German Cup, on eight occasions, but never advanced beyond the first round. Before being withdrawn from competition at the end of the 2013–14 season the team played in the tier four [[Regionalliga West]].

==History==
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amateure first entered the highest football league in the Middle Rhine region, the [[Verbandsliga Mittelrhein]], in 1978 and won the league in its fourth season there, in 1981. The team spent the next seventeen seasons in the tier-three [[Oberliga Nordrhein]], gradually improving its results. In 1994 the [[Regionalliga]] was established as the new third tier of German football and the team won promotion to this level after an Oberliga championship in 1998.<ref name="Archiv" >[http://www.f-archiv.de Historic German football league tables] {{in lang|de}} Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2015</ref>

Bayer Leverkusen Amateure became a [[yo-yo]] team between the Regionalliga and Oberliga, winning promotion to the former in 1998, 2001 and 2005 but suffering relegation again each time, in 2000, 2003 and 2007. It became a more permanent member of the Regionalliga when the Oberliga Nordrhein was disbanded in 2008 and the Regionalliga West established, with the team entering the latter league.<ref>[http://www.weltfussball.de/wettbewerb/oberliga-nordrhein-1994-2008/ Oberliga Nordrhein tables and results] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015</ref>

The team spent its last six seasons from 2008 to 2014 in the tier-four [[Regionalliga West]], where its best result was an eighth place in its last season there.<ref>[http://www.weltfussball.de/wettbewerb/regionalliga-west/ Regionalliga West tables and results] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015</ref>

The team also qualified for the DFB-Pokal eight times, in 1981–82, 1989–90, 1992–93, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2003–04 and 2007–08, but never advanced past the first round.<ref>[http://www.weltfussball.de/alle_spiele/dfb-pokal/ DFB-Pokal] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015</ref>

In 2014 a change in the regulations by the [[Deutsche Fußball Liga]] regarding reserve teams meant that such sides, in the form of under-23 teams, were not compulsory anymore for Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga clubs. Following this change, some reserve teams were withdrawn from competition, among them Heidenheim II, [[FSV Frankfurt II]] and Bayer 04 Leverkusen II. Bayer 04 Leverkusen had requested the change as it did not see much potential for reserve team players in the Regionalliga to break through to the Bundesliga side and wanted to focus on its under-17 and under-19 sides instead and to loan out young players.<ref name="Spiegel" >[http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/bayer-leverkusen-meldet-u23-team-ab-a-965783.html Regionalliga: Bayer Leverkusen meldet U23-Team ab] {{in lang|de}} ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', published: 23 April 2014, accessed: 30 January 2015</ref>

==Honours==
The team's honours:
*'''[[Oberliga Nordrhein]]'''
** '''Champions''': (3) 1998, 2001, 2005
** Runners-up: 2008
*'''[[Verbandsliga Mittelrhein]]'''
** '''Champions''': 1981
*'''[[Middle Rhine Cup]]'''
** '''Winners''': (5) 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2007

== Recent seasons ==
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:<ref>[http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] {{in lang|de}} Historical German domestic league tables</ref><ref>[http://www.fussball.de/homepage Fussball.de – Ergebnisse] {{in lang|de}} Tables and results of all German football leagues</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Division
! [[German football league system|Tier]]
! Position
|- align="center"
| 1999–2000
| align="left"| [[Regionalliga West/Südwest]] 
| III
| style="background:#ffcccc"| 16th↓
|- align="center"
| 2000–01
| align="left"| [[Oberliga Nordrhein]] 
| IV
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st↑ 
|- align="center"
| 2001–02
| align="left"| [[Regionalliga Nord]]
| rowspan=2| III
| 8th
|- align="center"
| 2002–03
| align="left"| Regionalliga Nord
| style="background:#ffcccc"| 17th↓
|- align="center"
| 2003–04
| align="left"| Oberliga Nordrhein
| rowspan=2| IV
| 4th
|- align="center"
| 2004–05
| align="left"| Oberliga Nordrhein
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st↑ 
|- align="center"
| 2005–06
| align="left"| Regionalliga Nord
| rowspan=2| III
| 11th
|- align="center"
| 2006–07
| align="left"| Regionalliga Nord
| style="background:#ffcccc"| 17th↓
|- align="center"
| 2007–08
| align="left"| Oberliga Nordrhein
| rowspan=7| IV
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 2nd↑ 
|- align="center"
| 2008–09
| align="left"| [[Regionalliga West]]
| 9th
|- align="center"
| 2009–10
| align="left"| Regionalliga West
| 13th
|- align="center"
| 2010–11
| align="left"| Regionalliga West
| 15th
|- align="center"
| 2011–12
| align="left"| Regionalliga West
| 18th
|- align="center"
| 2012–13
| align="left"| Regionalliga West
| 11th
|- align="center"
| 2013–14
| align="left"| Regionalliga West
| 8th
|}
* With the introduction of the [[Regionalliga]]s in 1994 and the [[3. Liga]] in 2008 as the new third tier, below the [[2. Bundesliga]], all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2000 all clubs from the disbanded [[Regionalliga West/Südwest]] from [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] joint the [[Regionalliga Nord]], in 2008 these clubs left the league again to join the new [[Regionalliga West]].

{|class="wikitable" align="center"
| style="background:#ddffdd"| ↑ <small>[[Promotion and relegation|Promoted]]</small>
| style="background:#ffcccc"| ↓ <small>[[Promotion and relegation|Relegated]]</small>
|}

==Stadium==
The team used to play their home game at [[Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion|Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion, Platz 11]], next to the club's main stadium, with a capacity of 3,200.

==Players==


===Squad=== 
{{updated|16 August 2022|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bayer04.de/en-us/team/werkself/bayer-04-leverkusen|title=Werkself|access-date=22 January 2021|publisher=Bayer 04 Leverkusen}}</ref>}}

{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=1|nat=NED|pos=GK|name=[[Roy Steur]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=12|nat=GER|pos=GK|name=[[Luca Novodomsky]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=22|nat=GER|pos=GK|name=[[Maximilian Neutgens]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=18|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Reno Münz]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=4|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Sinan Solmaz]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=5|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Abdul-Wahid Bancé]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=24|nat=BEL|pos=DF|name=[[Madi Monamay]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=27|nat=AUT|pos=DF|name=[[Filip Milojević]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=-|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Julius Bugenhagen]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=3|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Anton Bäuerle]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=26|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Daniel Lang (footballer, born 2005)|Daniel Lang]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=-|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=[[Samy Jakšić]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=21|nat=TUR|pos=DF|name=[[Emre Aksoy]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=6|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=[[Leon Köhl]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=8|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=[[Jan Ecke]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=25|nat=SUI|pos=MF|name=[[Isaiah Okafor]]}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=33|nat=KOS|pos=MF|name=[[Arjanit Fazlija]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=29|nat=DEN|pos=MF|name=[[Zidan Sertdemir]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=5|nat=GER|pos=RM|name=[[Giancarlo Lore]]}} 
{{Fs player|other=|no=11|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=[[Volkan Ballicalioglu]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=14|nat=NED|pos=MF|name=[[Jordan Zirkzee]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=20|nat=MAR|pos=MF|name=[[Ayman Aourir]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=30|nat=TUR|pos=MF|name=[[Enes Yilmaz]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=-|nat=NED|pos=FW|name=[[Abdul Sesay]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=-|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=[[Mats Flock]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=7|nat=KOR|pos=FW|name=[[In-gyom Jung]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=23|nat=CRO|pos=FW|name=[[Noah Pesch]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=17|nat=SYR|pos=FW|name=[[Jacob Touma (C)]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=31|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=[[David Widlarz]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=34|nat=SWE|pos=FW|name=[[Emmanuel Frimpong]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=9|nat=SPA|pos=FW|name=[[Iker Bravo]]}}
{{Fs player|other=|no=-|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=[[Can Yahya Moustfa]]}}
{{Fs end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.bayer04.de Official club website] {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/bayer-leverkusen-ii/ Bayer 04 Leverkusen II at Weltfussball.de] {{in lang|de}}

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