Reserve Teams
In 1955, 1. FC Nuremberg Amateure became the first reserve team to enter the Bayernliga, followed by FC Bayern Munich Amateure. Despite this, reserve teams from non-professional clubs were not permitted to enter the league system for many years after that, having to play in parallel reserve leagues with promotion and relegation determined by the performance of the senior team rather than the reserve side.
Regulation were slowly lowerd and, in 1980, reserve teams of Landesliga clubs were permitted to enter the league piramide, too. However, should a club drop out of the Landesliga, its reserve side would have to return to reserve football.
With the introduction of the Bezirksoberliga in 1988, reserve teams from this league were permitted to enter regular league football, too. Some years later, this right was also awarded to Bezirksliga clubs. Bavaria was however slow to allow all reserve sides to enter the league system, differing in this from most other German associations. Eventually, this hurdle was dropped, too but the final decision was awarded to the individual Bezirke. Up to the fourth-lowest level, senior and reserve team can play at the same level, but not in the same league, higher than that reserve teams have to play one level below the senior side.
In between, in 2008, reserve sides lost their right to compete in the cup competitions. In the 2011-12 season, Schwaben, Niederbayern, Unterfranken and Oberfranken still have not integrated the reserve teams fully into the league system while the other three Bezirke have.
Professional clubs often designate their reserve sides to be under-23 teams as the rules of utelising players in both the first and second them for under-23 players are less srtict, with players above 23 having to have a mandatory 10 day break when being exchanged between teams.
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