Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig or BTSV, is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.
Walter Schmidt, one of the team's key players during the 1960s, pictured in the Eintracht-Stadion in 2009
Paul Breitner, Eintracht Braunschweig's most prominent signing during the 1970s
Lutz Eigendorf
Regionalliga home game against VfB Lübeck in 1998
The 2. Bundesliga is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below the Bundesliga and above the 3. Liga in the German football league system. All of the 2. Bundesliga clubs take part in the DFB-Pokal, the annual German Cup competition. A total of 127 clubs have competed in the 2. Bundesliga since its foundation.
The Stadion An der Alten Försterei is the home of 1. FC Union Berlin. The club competed in the 2. Bundesliga for ten consecutive seasons.