1. FC Nuremberg II
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| Full name | 1. Fußball-Club Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V. |
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| Nickname(s) | Der Club |
| Founded | 4 May 1900 |
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| Manager | Michael Köllner |
| League | Regionalliga Bayern (IV) |
| 2015–16 | 3rd |
The 1. FC Nuremberg II (German: 1. FC Nürnberg II) is the reserve team of German football club 1. FC Nuremberg, from the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Until 2005, the team played under the name of 1. FC Nürnberg Amateure.
Nurembergs amateur team first won promotion to Bavarias highest football league, then the tier-three Amateurliga Nordbayern, in 1955, when it took out the title in the 2nd Amateurliga Mittelfranken-Süd and came second in the following promotion round. The Amateurliga Nordbayern was then one of two leagues at this level in Bavaria, covering the northern half of the state while the Amateurliga Südbayern existed in parallel in the south.
1. FC Nuremberg Amateure, as the team was then known as, was the first reserve side to reach this level, pre-dating the FC Bayern Munich II by a year. The team finished in sixth place out of fourteen in its first year in the third division. It dropped to thirteenth in the following year, three points save of relegation. After an eighth place in 1957-58, a fourteenth the following season meant relegation back to the fourth division. The team remained at this level until 1963, when, in the reorganisation of the German football league system, it became part of the new tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte.
After coming fifth in the Landesliga in 1963-64, the team won the league the season after and earned promotion to the Amateurliga Bayern, now operating as a single division and statewide. In this league, commonly referred to as the Bayernliga, it managed a second place in its first year there, two points behind champions BC Augsburg. As the third division was the highest league reserve teams were permitted in Germany, Nuremberg could not have been promoted anyway, even if it had won the league.
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