Eintracht Frankfurt wants to invest more in the junior promotion again. After the Hesse 2014 also reported its U23 for economic reasons, the Football Bundesliga club has now made an application for taking a second team.

“Eintracht Frankfurt has requested the recording of a second team, Eintracht Frankfurt II at the Hessian Football Association (HFV), to the Hessenliga for the 2022/23 season,” said the association. So you hope to better bring young talents from the junior power center to the professional team.

“For our further strategic orientation in the junior area and as a transition to the professional team, it is important to have a strong substructure,” said professional teams board Markus Kröse in the club message and supplemented: “But it is not only important that young talents have the opportunity to have the opportunity Playing for the week under competitive conditions in men’s football and thus can make the next steps in their development, but also of great importance that young perspective players from the first team, which are not continuously belonging to the stem cadre, gather game and competition practice at the highest possible level. “

For different reasons, the cancellation of the U23 was the right decision at that time, “which we have taken as the Bureau together with the board,” said President Peter Fischer. “But thematic complexes and prerequisites change and must regularly be reassessed. This happened in this case, and we fully support the reorientation of the junior power center and the idea of ​​Markus Kröse.”

Eintracht hopes in February on a decision of the HFV. So in the coming season, a U23 could take part in the game operation again.