Eintracht Frankfurt U23
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Eintracht Frankfurt U23 is the reserve team
Reserve team
Large professional sports clubs often have far more players under contract than could possibly play in a match. As a result, many of these clubs create second teams composed of players who need playing time, but have little hope of playing on the first team. The players on this second team are...

 of Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...

.Formerly known as Eintracht Frankfurt Amateure (Amateurs) the team plays as U23 (Under 23) to emphasize the character of the team as a link between youth academy and pro team. Manager of the team is Oscar Corrochano.

The traditional home ground is the Riederwaldstadion
Riederwaldstadion
Riederwaldstadion is a stadium in Seckbach district of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. It is traditionally the home ground of Eintracht Frankfurt U23.The stadium was destroyed during the World War II in 1943 and was rebuilt in 1952....

 but for safety purposes the team is forced to play at Bornheimer Hang
Stadion Am Bornheimer Hang
Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Bornheim a district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FSV Frankfurt and occasionally 1. FFC Frankfurt. The stadium was renovated until the beginning of the 2009-10...

. The ground was actually renovated for local rival FSV Frankfurt
FSV Frankfurt
FSV Frankfurt is a German association football club based in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and founded in 1899. The club plays in the shadow of larger and much more successful Eintracht Frankfurt, which has recently returned to 2nd tier football...

 but since their unexpected promotion to the 2. Bundesliga
2. Fußball-Bundesliga
- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...

 and the stricter home ground requirements FSV used to play at Eintracht's actual stadium
Commerzbank-Arena
The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation...

 while the SGE reserves play at their home. Since 2009-10 both teams, FSV and Eintracht U23 play at Bornheimer Hang.

The squad is frequently supported by Ultras Frankfurt
Ultras Frankfurt
Ultras Frankfurt is a supporter organisation for the German football club Eintracht Frankfurt.Founded on July 7, 1997 by members of already existing Eintracht supporter clubs with the goal to improve the spirit in the stadium and organise choreographies...

, especially when playing derby matches against Darmstadt
SV Darmstadt 98
SV Darmstadt 98 is a German association football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919 the association was briefly known as Rasen-Sportverein Olympia before merging with Darmstädter Sport Club 1905 on 11 November that year to...

 and Kassel
KSV Hessen Kassel
KSV Hessen Kassel is a German association football club based in Kassel, Hesse. The club was founded as FC Union 93 Kassel in 1893 and just two years later joined FC Hassia 93 Cassel to form Casseler FV 95...

, both home and away.

Current squad

As of 11 September 2011

Note: There are no fixed jersey numbers in the squad

Famous players

  • Marcos Alvarez
    Marcos Alvarez
    Marcos Alvarez is a German footballer. He currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt.-External links:* at eintracht-archiv.de...

  • Ali Amiri
    Ali Amiri (Afghanistani footballer)
    Ali Amiri is a former German-Afghan footballer who lastly played for TSG Worsdorf.-Career:Amiri began his career with FSV Frankfurt and joined in summer 2000 to Eintracht Frankfurt. After two years on youthside for Eintracht Frankfurt was 2002 promoted to the reserve team...

     (represented Afghanistan
    Afghanistan national football team
    The Afghanistan national football team is the national team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation. The national team was founded in 1922 that joined FIFA in 1948 and the AFC in 1954...

     while being signed at Eintracht Frankfurt U23)
  • Mimoun Azaouagh
    Mimoun Azaouagh
    Mimoun Azaouagh is a Moroccan-born German footballer. He currently plays for the Bundesliga club VfL Bochum.- Early career:...

  • Matthias Becker
    Matthias Becker
    Matthias Becker is a retired German football player.-External links:...

  • Manfred Binz
    Manfred Binz
    Manfred Binz is a former German footballer who is now the manager of FC Germania 1911 Enkheim.-Career:In his active career the sweeper won the DFB-Pokal with Eintracht Frankfurt and became runner-up at UEFA Euro 1992 with Germany...

  • Rudolf Bommer
    Rudolf Bommer
    Rudolf "Rudi" Bommer is a former German footballer and football manager. He is the current manager of Wacker Burghausen.Born in Aschaffenburg, he played 417 games between 1976 and 1997 for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bayer Uerdingen and Eintracht Frankfurt.He played in France in Euro 84...

  • Ronald Borchers
    Ronald Borchers
    Ronald Borchers is a former German footballer.Between 1975 and 1987 he played for Eintracht Frankfurt, Arminia Bielefeld and Waldhof Mannheim in the Bundesliga. However, he celebrated the majority of his success with Eintracht, winning the UEFA Cup in 1980 and the DFB Cup in 1981.Between 1978 and...

  • Erol Bulut
    Erol Bulut
    Erol Bulut is a Turkish-German football player playing in the left wing position, who is currently playing for OFI Crete...

  • Mounir Chaftar
    Mounir Chaftar
    Mounir Chaftar is a German footballer who plays for SV Wacker Burghausen.- External links :* at eintracht-archiv.de...

  • Christian Demirtas
    Christian Demirtas
    Christian Demirtaş is a German footballer of Assyrian/Syriac descent from Turkey .- External links :* at kicker.de * at transfermarkt.de * at worldfootball.net...

  • Ralf Fährmann
    Ralf Fährmann
    Ralf Fährmann is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Schalke 04.-Career:Fährmann made his professional debut for Schalke on 13 September 2008 in 3–3 draw away to Borussia Dortmund. On 16 September 2008 he played his first international match against APOEL F.C...

  • Danny Galm
    Danny Galm
    Danny Galm is a German footballer. He currently plays for 1. FC Kaiserslautern II. He has previously played for VfB Stuttgart II, Eintracht Frankfurt U23 and Energie Cottbus. He joined Stuttgarter Kickers in February 2009, but transferred to Kaiserslautern after they were relegated from the 3....

  • Baldo di Gregorio
    Baldo di Gregorio
    Baldassare 'Baldo' di Gregorio is a German football player. As of 2010, he plays for Arminia Bielefeld. He also holds Italian citizenship.-External links:...

  • Giuseppe Gemiti
    Giuseppe Gemiti
    Giuseppe Gemiti is an Italian–German footballer, who is currently plays for Serie A club Novara.-Career:Gemiti just played 4 league matches with Udinese in 2003–04 season, which he was injured for a month in October 2003 and out-favored by head coach Luciano Spalletti.In July 2005, he left for...

  • Daniel Gunkel
    Daniel Gunkel
    Daniel Gunkel is a German footballer who plays for Kickers Offenbach.-Career:Gunkel made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for FC Energie Cottbus on 8 August 2004, when he started the game against 1. FC Köln.After playing for 1. FSV Mainz 05 and then TuS Koblenz in...

  • Matthias Hagner
    Matthias Hagner
    Matthias Hagner is a German footballer who last played for Eintracht Wetzlar.-External links:* at transfermarkt.de...

  • Marcel Heller
    Marcel Heller
    Marcel Heller is a German footballer who plays as a Winger for German 2nd division club Dynamo Dresden.Joining Sportfreunde Siegen for their Regionalliga Süd 2006–07 campaign from the Alemannia Aachen reserves, he immediately earned a regular spot and drew attraction in a DFB-Pokal match against...

  • Martin Hess
    Martin Hess
    Martin Hess is a German footballer. He currently plays for Sportfreunde Lotte.-References:...

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Jermaine Jones
    Jermaine Jones
    Jermaine Jones is a German-born American soccer player who plays for Schalke 04.- Personal life :Jones grew up in Frankfurt-Bonames. His father is an African-American soldier who was stationed in Germany. As a child, Jones lived in Chicago and Greenwood, Mississippi in the U.S...

  • Sebastian Jung
    Sebastian Jung
    Sebastian Jung is a German footballer who plays as a right back for Eintracht Frankfurt.-Career:Jung played his first Bundesliga match for Eintracht Frankfurt, and first fully professional game, on 8 March 2009 in a 0–0 draw against Arminia Bielefeld.-External links:* at transfermarkt.de * at...

  • Kevin Kraus
    Kevin Kraus
    Kevin Kraus is a German footballer.Kraus passed through the youth teams of Eintracht Frankfurt and finally got in 2011 a roster spot in the senior team, making his debut against Hannover on 16 January 2011.-External links:...

  • Benjamin Lense
    Benjamin Lense
    Benjamin Lense is a German footballer who plays for Arminia Bielefeld.-References:...

  • Krešo Ljubičić
    Krešo Ljubicic
    Krešo Ljubičić is a German-born Croatian footballer. Since 2009-10 he plays for Hajduk Split. He is also a member of the Croatian national under-21 team....

  • Jean-Paul Ndeki
    Jean-Paul Ndeki
    Jean-Paul Ndeki is a footballer who currently plays for AEP Paphos FC.-Playing career:-Personal:His brother, Edouard Oum Ndeki, was a professional footballer who played in Turkey and Greece.-References:...

  • Markus Neumayr
    Markus Neumayr
    Markus Neumayr is a German football player who plays as a midfielder for Swiss club AC Bellinzona.-Career:Neumayr started his football career playing for local clubs before moving to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2003 However, within a few months, he was picked up by Manchester United...

  • Oka Nikolov
    Oka Nikolov
    Oka Nikolov ; born 25 May 1974 in Erbach im Odenwald) is a Macedonian football goalkeeper. Nikolov has played for Eintracht Frankfurt since 1991 and has been capped five times for Macedonia.-Career:...

  • Christoph Preuß
    Christoph Preuß
    Christoph Preuß is a former German football player.-Early life:Preuß was born in Gießen, Hesse. Raised up in the Hessian town of Linden.-Career:...

  • Peter Reichel
    Peter Reichel
    Peter Reichel is a German former professional football defender.The right full back signed a professional contract at Eintracht Frankfurt in 1970. On the first matchday he debuted in the Bundesliga and became immediately a regular. In 1974 and 1975 he won the DFB-Pokal trophy...

  • Christopher Reinhard
    Christopher Reinhard
    Christopher Reinhard is a German footballer who plays for sixth-tier club TGM SV Jügesheim.- External links :*...

  • Marco Russ
    Marco Russ
    Marco Russ is a German footballer who plays for VfL Wolfsburg.Russ passed through all youth teams of Eintracht Frankfurt and finally got in 2004 a roster spot in the senior team...

  • Milad Salem
    Milad Salem
    Milad Salem Nahimi is an Afghan footballer who currently plays for SV Wehen II.-Career:Nahimi began his career in the youth from Kickers Offenbach and moved in July 2004 to Eintracht Frankfurt, was in summer 2007 promoted to the reserve team.-International career:Salem played three games for the...

     (represented Afghanistan
    Afghanistan national football team
    The Afghanistan national football team is the national team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation. The national team was founded in 1922 that joined FIFA in 1948 and the AFC in 1954...

     while being signed at Eintracht Frankfurt U23)
  • Antônio da Silva
    Antônio da Silva
    Antônio da Silva is a Brazilian footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund as a midfielder.- Career :...

  • Markus Steinhöfer
    Markus Steinhöfer
    Markus Steinhöfer is a German footballer, who plays for FC Basel.- Career :In July 2008, he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt for a fee of €900,000. In his second saison, he struggled to find a regular spot and announced that his intention to transfer. On 29 December 2009, Eintracht Frankfurt loaned...

  • Albert Streit
    Albert Streit
    Albert Streit is a German footballer who plays in midfield for Schalke 04 II.-Career:Streit signed a three-year contract with Eintracht Frankfurt following the relegation of his previous team, 1. FC Köln, on 9 May 2006....

  • Faton Toski
    Faton Toski
    Faton Toski is a German footballer playing for VfL Bochum.-Career:Toski began his career for TuS Makkabi Frankfurt and signed after one year an youth contract for Eintracht Frankfurt. He debuted in the Bundesliga for the Eagles in a match against Werder Bremen on 12 May 2007...

  • Cenk Tosun
    Cenk Tosun
    Cenk Tosun is a Turkish-German footballer who plays as a forward for Gaziantepspor in the Süper Lig and the Turkish National Team even though he competed for the youth teams of his birth country, Germany, earlier in his career.In 2011 he was placed 16th in the FIFA ranking of Europe's Most...

  • Juvhel Tsoumou
    Juvhel Tsoumou
    Juvhel Fred Tsoumou , English pronunciation: is a German footballer of Congolese origin. He currently plays for Preston North End.-Early career:...

  • Angelo Vaccaro
    Angelo Vaccaro
    Angelo Vaccaro is an Italian football player, who currently plays for Brussels.-Career:The German born played also made his debut on the professional league level in the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart on December 2, 2000 when came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute in a game against Borussia...

  • Lars Weißenfeldt
    Lars Weißenfeldt
    Lars Weißenfeldt is a German football player. He is currently a free agent.-External links:*...

  • Jan Zimmermann
    Jan Zimmermann
    Jan Zimmermann is a German goalkeeper who is currently playing for SV Darmstadt 98.-Career:Born and raised in Hesse, Zimmermann started his professional career at Eintracht Frankfurt and still plays for the reserve team, competing in the Oberliga, the fourth German tier...


Managers

  • 2000-2005: Bernhard Lippert
    Bernhard Lippert
    Bernhard Lippert is a German football manager.Lippert worked between 1994 and 1997 as manager of the Eintracht Frankfurt reserve team, Eintracht Frankfurt Amateure. In 1997 he was promoted as he became assistant manager of the first squad he worked there until 2000. Between December 9 and December...

  • 2005: Armin Kraaz
    Armin Kraaz
    Armin Kraaz is a German football manager and former player.The former defender played for Viktoria Preußen until 1979 and then moved to Eintracht Frankfurt. From 1983-84 he was fielded in the pro squad, appearing in 123 Bundesliga fixtures, netting 3 goals. In 1988 he went to Rot-Weiß Frankfurt...

  • 2006-2007: Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • 2007-2010: Frank Leicht
  • 2010–present: Oscar Corrochano

Team Honours

  • Oberliga Hessen Champion: 1970, 2002
  • Landesliga Hessen-Süd champions: 1969
  • Hessenpokal
    Hesse Cup
    The Hesse Cup is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup.-History:...

     (Cup of Hesse): 1969

Recent record

Season Division Position
2000-01 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 5
2001-02 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 1
2002-03 Regionalliga Süd
Regionalliga Süd
The Regionalliga Süd is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the southern part of Germany...

 (III)
18
2003-04 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 10
2004-05 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 12
2005-06 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 11
2006-07 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 5
2007-08 Oberliga Hessen (IV) 4
2008-09 Regionalliga Süd
Regionalliga Süd
The Regionalliga Süd is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the southern part of Germany...

 (IV)
3
2009-10 Regionalliga Süd
Regionalliga Süd
The Regionalliga Süd is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the southern part of Germany...

 (IV)
8
2010-11 Regionalliga Süd
Regionalliga Süd
The Regionalliga Süd is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the southern part of Germany...

(IV)
6

External links

Eintracht U23 page on the official site Eintracht Amas on sge4ever.de
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