 The reserve team serves mainly as the final stepping stone for promising young players before being promoted to the main team. Bayern II is coached by Heiko Vogel, assisted by Danny Schwarz and Rainer Ulrich. Since the inception of the Regionalliga in 1994, the team played in the Regionalliga Süd, after playing in the Oberliga since 1978. In the 2007 – 08 season they qualified for the newly founded 3. Liga, where they lasted until 2011, when they were relegated to the Regionalliga. This ended 33 consecutive years of playing in the highest league that the German Football Association permits the second team of a professional football team to play.
