TSV 1860 Munich II
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| Full name | Turn- und Sportverein München von 1860 |
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| Nickname(s) |
Die (kleinen) Löwen (The (small) Lions), Die Sechzger ("Sixties" in Bavarian) |
| Founded | 17 May 1860 |
| Ground | Grünwalder Stadion |
| Capacity | 10,240 |
| Chairman | Peter Casalette |
| Manager | Daniel Bierofka |
| League | Regionalliga Bayern (IV) |
| 2015–16 | 10th |
The TSV 1860 Munich II (German: TSV 1860 München II) is the reserve team of German football club TSV 1860 München, from the city of Munich, Bavaria.
Until 2005, the team played under the name of TSV 1860 München Amateure. In the 2014–15 season, the team plays in the tier-four Regionalliga Bayern.
Within the club, it operates as an under-21 side, designated to develop players from the youth to the first-team stage.
1860s amateur team first won promotion to Bavarias highest football league, then the tier-three Amateurliga Südbayern, in 1959, when it took out the title in the 2nd Amateurliga Oberbayern and then won the Oberbayern final against FSV Pfaffenhofen. The Amateurliga Südbayern 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 München 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 Munichs reserve side coming second. 1860s 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 Haßfurt 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-Süd after finishing fifteenth in the league when a top-seven finish was needed.
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