In England, Argentina and the United States the term reserve is commonly used to describe these teams.
[citation needed] In Germany and Austria the terms Amateure or II is used, while B team is used in the Spanish football league system, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Portugal.
In Spain this has seen the reserve team of CD Málaga change identity and play in La Liga while Castilla CF, the reserve team of Real Madrid, reached the Copa del Rey final, qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup and won the Segunda División.
Additionally, if a reserve team finishes first in his National 3 group but the club doesn't have a youth center, the promotion is instead awarded to the second.
Liga and since 2008–09 have not been allowed to play in the cup competition to serve the non-reserve team's interests.
In the 2003–04 season, Bayern Munich's reserve team won the Regionalliga Süd, a semi-professional league then in the third tier of German football (now the fourth), finishing nine points clear of the second-placed FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt.
[16] Due to the rule which prohibits one club from having two teams in fully professional leagues, the third-placed 1.
These teams were never promoted to the top flight due to their senior squad's presence there.
An example is Toyota Automated Loom Works, founding member of the JSL in 1965, later relegated and now competing in the Aichi Prefecture league, and Toyota Motors, now known as Nagoya Grampus, founding member and mainstay of the J.
The most successful was JEF United Ichihara Chiba Reserves, who competed in the then national third division, the Japan Football League.
[21] It was described as a development league for under-20s, but teams could field up to five over-age players in each game.
Proposals have been made by the bigger clubs to have 'B teams' placed into the Scottish football league system, but as of 2020 these have been rejected.
[22][23] The South-Korean R League serves as a dedicated competition for reserve teams and has been intermittently active since 1990, with several interruptions and format changes throughout its history.
The following season CD España Industrial, the reserve team of FC Barcelona, also finished as runners-up in the same play-off but were similarly denied.
However, after winning another promotion play-off in 1956, España Industrial separated from FC Barcelona and were renamed CD Condal.
During their cup run, they beat four Primera División teams including Hércules CF, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Sporting de Gijón.
[26] Despite beating West Ham United 3–1 in the opening game at the Bernabéu, they lost the return 5–1 and went out in the first round.
On rare occasions in the professional league competitions were allowed to compete some clubs' academies (Sports school of Olympic Reserve (SSOR) Metalurh, FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk, others).
It certainly reduced the number of second teams in regular league competitions as well eliminated some farm clubs.
All these youth competitions "cleaned" the lower league structure of the second teams, but some clubs continue field them at national or regional levels.
As any rules there are some exceptions, the second team of FC Nyva Ternopil (FC Ternopil) were allowed promotion to the same division after it lost its affiliation with the main club and promoted to professional ranks starting again from regional competitions.