Bayern II Regionalliga Fixture List Released

The 2013/14 season ended with a sucker punch, and many players have already left for different pastures, but Bayern Munich II will have to put that behind them with a new season upon them.

The Regionalliga Bayern have released their fixture list for the 2014/15 season. The league is just 18 clubs large after their second shrinkage in two years, so the reserves will have two less match days to play.

Here is the full fixture list for Bayern II, along with some tidbits on what the schedule offers:

Fixtures (Regionalliga)	Date
Match Day 1 vs. FC Würzburger Kickers	July 12, 2014
Match Day 2 @ SV Wacker Burghausen	July 15, 2014
Match Day 3 vs. SV Heimstetten	July 19, 2014
Match Day 4 @ TSV Buchbach	July 25, 2014
Match Day 5 vs. 1. FC Schweinfurt 05	August 2, 2014
Match Day 6 @ TSV 1860 München II	August 9, 2014
Match Day 7 vs. FC Augsburg II	August 16, 2014
Match Day 8 @ FC Ingolstadt 04 II	August 23, 2014
Match Day 9 vs. FV Illertissen	August 30, 2014
Match Day 10 @ SV Seligporten	September 6, 2014
Match Day 11 vs. FC Eintracht Bamberg	September 13, 2014
Match Day 12 @ VfR Garching	September 20, 2014
Match Day 13 vs. SpVgg Greuther Fürth II	September 27, 2014
Match Day 14 @ SpVgg Oberfranken Bayreuth	October 3, 2014
Match Day 15 @ FC Memmingen	October 10, 2014
Match Day 16 vs. SV Schalding-Heining	October 18, 2014
Match Day 17 @ 1. FC Nürnberg II	October 25, 2014
Match Day 18 @ FC Würzburger Kickers	October 31, 2014
Match Day 19 vs. Wacker Burghausen	November 8, 2014
Match Day 20 @ SV Heimstetten	November 15, 2014
Match Day 21 vs. TSV Buchbach	November 22, 2014
Match Day 22 @ 1. FC Schweinfurt 05	November 28, 2014
Match Day 23 vs. TSV 1860 München II	March 7, 2015
Match Day 24 @ FC Augsburg II	March 14, 2015
Match Day 25 vs. FC Ingolstadt 04 II	March 21, 2015
Match Day 26 @ FV Illertissen	March 28, 2015
Match Day 27 vs. SV Seligporten	April 4, 2015
Match Day 28 @ FC Eintracht Bamberg	April 10, 2015
Match Day 29 vs. VfR Garching	April 18, 2015
Match Day 30 @ SpVgg Greuther Fürth II	April 25, 2015
Match Day 31 vs. SpVgg Oberfranken Bayreuth	May 2, 2015
Match Day 32 vs. FC Memmingen	May 9, 2015
Match Day 33 @ SV Schalding-Heining	May 16, 2015
Match Day 34 vs. 1. FC Nürnberg II	May 23, 2015

Tidbits

• The two teams that finished directly behind them, FV Illertissen and TSV 1860 München II are right in the meat of their schedule. That means that after the winter break, those two opponents will bookend their first four matches. The Munich derby will kick off the Spring block of matches, which is not a bad way to reopen the Grünwalder Stadion in 2015.
• Matchday 4 to matchday 6 is around the time when the senior team will make their excursion to the United States. With 14 current members participating in the World Cup, one would have to assume that Pep Guardiola will want to take some reserves with him, just as he did during the clubs last winter break in Qatar. One way to look at it is that the reserves will not have their best players for the first Munich derby, but converse is what the club wants, calling in players from the U19 side to fill out the team sheets.
• Matches against recently-promoted Oberliga sides – SV Wacker Burghausen, VfR Garching and SpVgg Oberfranken Bayreuth – come at rather convenient times. Wacker Burghausen is the second match of the Hinrunde, and Garching and Bayreuth are sandwiched around the SpVgg Greuther Fürth reserve match.
• With two less matchdays, the reserve's schedule before the break will end one week earlier and start a week later around the winter break. It was during that part of the season that Guardiola started to struggle with bodies, with Javi Martinez, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Franck Ribery, Arjen Robben and Daniel van Buyten all injured (not to mention the motivational issues Mario Mandzukic was having). Perhaps two extra weeks will not make a difference, but it is not a bad luxury to have.