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2022 German Football League
The 2022 German Football League season is the 43rd edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany. The regular season started on 21 May and ended on 28 August 2022, followed by the play-offs. The season culminated in the German Bowl XLIII, which was held on 2 October 2022 in Frankfurt, where the north champion Potsdam Royals met the south champion Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns. The Unicorns won their 5th German title with a 44–27 victory. Modus The league is divided in two conferences, north and south, and both conferences are divided in two divisions. During the regular season each club plays all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, and the teams of the other division of its conference once, resulting in each team playing 10 regular season games. The best four teams in each conference qualify for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite conferences play each other, whereby the better placed teams have home field advantage. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Football League
The German Football League (GFL) is an American football league in Germany and was formed in 1979. Playing rules are based on those of the American National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA. In 1999, the league switched its name from ''American-Football-Bundesliga'' to ''German Football League''.Geschichte AFVD website, accessed: 29 December 2010 In terms of attendance figures, cumulative salaries paid by teams, performance in international exhibition games and competitions and ability to draw foreign talent, the GFL is arguably the strongest national league in Europe. League set-up 
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Saarland Hurricanes
The Saarland Hurricanes are an American football team from Saarbrücken, Germany. Saarbrücken is the capital of the federal German state of Saarland, which the club is named after. The club was formed in 1996 in a merger of the two local sides Saarbrücken Wölfe and Dillingen Steelhawks.Team History Saarland Hurricanes website, retrieved 20 January 2011 As its greatest success, the team has won promotion to the twice, in 2000 and 2010. In this league, it qualified for the play-offs once, in 2005. On junior level the club earned its greatest success in 2013 when it won the |
Frankfurt Pirates
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main (river), Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's Metropolitan regions in Germany, second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic centre of the EU, geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Homburg Sentinels
Bad or BAD may refer to: Common meanings * Evil, the opposite of moral good * Erroneous, inaccurate or incorrect *Unhealthy, or counter to well-being *Antagonist, the threat or obstacle of moral good Acronyms * BAD-2, a Soviet armored trolley car * Bank account debits tax, an Australian tax * Bcl-2-associated death promoter, a pro-apoptotic protein * Team B.A.D., a professional wrestling tag team Films * ''Andy Warhol's Bad'', a 1977 film * ''Bad'', an unfinished film by Theo van Gogh Music Performers * B. A. D., the Taiwanese boy band, who formed in 1998 * Big Audio Dynamite, Mick Jones' post-Clash band, from London * Royce da 5'9", the American rapper known as Bad, in the group Bad Meets Evil Albums * ''Bad'' (album), a 1987 album by Michael Jackson * ''BAD'', or ''Bigger and Deffer'', the second album by LL Cool J, 1987 Songs * "Bad" (U2 song), 1984 * "Bad" (Michael Jackson song), 1987 * "Bad", from the 2011 album ''Symphony Soldier'' by The Cab * "Bad" (Wale song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football Regionalliga
The American football Regionalliga is the third tier of American football in Germany, below the German Football League and the German Football League 2. The league is subdivided into six regional divisions, the Regionalligas (''English: Regional league'') Nord (''North''), Ost (''East''), West, Mitte (''Central''), Südwest (''Southwest'') and Süd (''South''). History The league was formed in 1985 with two regional divisions, Central and West. The number of divisions changed frequently in the following years, as did the name of the league, changing to Verbandsliga for a time. From 1991 it operated under name of Regionalliga again with seven divisions, one in the North and two each in the West, Central and Bavaria. From 1995 the league was reduced to four divisions, South, West, Central and Northeast, a format that remained unchanged until 2004 when the Northeast division was split into North and East divisions. Since 2004 the Regionalliga operates in the current five division for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solingen Paladins
Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, is after Wuppertal the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land. It is a member of the regional authority of the Rhineland. Solingen is called the "City of Blades", since it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by famous firms such as WKC, DOVO, Wüsthof, Zwilling J. A. Henckels, Böker, Güde, Hubertus, Diefenthal, Puma, Clauberg, Eickhorn, Linder, Carl Schmidt Sohn, Dreiturm, Herder, and numerous other manufacturers. In medieval times, the swordsmiths of Solingen designed the town's coat of arms, which continues to the present. In the latter part of the 17th century, a group of swordsmiths from Solingen broke their guild oaths by taking their sword-making secrets with them t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostock Griffins
Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 208,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany. Rostock stands on the estuary of the River Warnow into the Bay of Mecklenburg of the Baltic Sea. The city stretches for about along the river. The river flows into the sea in the very north of the city, between the boroughs of Warnemünde and Hohe Düne. The city center lies further upstream, in the very south of the city. Most of Rostock's inhabitants live on the western side of the Warnow; the area east of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paderborn Dolphins
The Paderborn Dolphins are an American football team from Paderborn, Germany. The club's greatest success has been promotion, in 1997, to the American football Bundesliga, now the German Football League, where it played for two seasons until 1999. After winning the GFL 2 North in 2022, the Dolphins will return to the top level of Germany in 2023 the German Football League for the first time since 1999. History The Dolphins entered league football in 1992 when they joined the tier-four Verbandsliga. The club spent two seasons at this level before earning promotion to the Regionalliga, where it played until 1995. After promotion from the Regionalliga to the 2nd Bundesliga the Dolphins finished sixth in the league in 1996 before winning its division in 1997 led by USA Import quarterback Bradly Strohm. In the promotion round the club defeated Bundesliga foundation club Berlin Adler, ending the latter's nineteen-season stint in the league since 1979. In the Bundesliga the Dolphins' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lübeck Cougars
The Lübeck Cougars are an American football team from Lübeck, Germany. The club had its greatest success in 2012 when it played in the German Football League for a season. History The club was formed in 1987 out of the members of an earlier American football club in Lübeck, the ''Outlaws'', which went defunct the year before. Lübeck Cougars website, accessed: 17 October 2014 The Cougars entered league football in 1990, playing in Landesliga Nord for a season before earning promotion to the . After three seasons in the Regionalliga the club was promoted to the 2. American football Bundesliga, now the |
Langenfeld Longhorns near Zwickau in Saxony
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Langenfeld may refer to the following places in Germany: * Langenfeld, Bavaria, in the Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district of Mittelfranken, Bavaria * Langenfeld, Mayen-Koblenz, in the Mayen-Koblenz district of Rhineland-Palatinate * Langenfeld, Rhineland, in the Mettmann district of North Rhine-Westphalia See also * Lengenfeld Lengenfeld is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany. The town is situated 19 km southwest of Zwickau, and 18 km northeast of Plauen. History During World War II, in the town, Germany op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildesheim Invaders
The Hildesheim Invaders are an American football team from Hildesheim, Germany. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the American football Bundesliga, now the German Football League, in 1989 where it played for two seasons until 1991. A division title in the German Football League 2 in 2015 earned the club the right to return to the highest level of play in Germany, should it meet the licensing requirements, which they did. History Formed in 1983 the Invaders entered the northern division of tier two 2. Bundesliga from 1986. The club won division championships at this level in 1986 and 1989 with the latter earning it promotion to the American football Bundesliga. Hildesheim played for two seasons at this level, coming fourth in its division in 1990 but finishing last the year after, losing all ten season games. From 1992 to 1994 and, again, from 1996 to 2000 the team played in the 2. Bundesliga again, dropping down to the Regionalliga for a season in 1995. The end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg Huskies
The Hamburg Huskies are an American football team in Hamburg, Germany. The club's greatest success came in 2014 when it won the northern division of the German Football League 2 and earned promotion to the German Football League. History The club was formed in 1994 as the Hamburg Wild Huskies. The club entered competitive football in 1995, won the tier four Oberliga and earned promotion to the Regionalliga. In 1998 the club earned promotion to the 2. Bundesliga, a league later renamed to GFL2. In reference to the Hamburg Silver Eagles, a club that went defunct shortly after the formation of the Huskies and provided many of its future players, the Wild Huskies were renamed Eagles in November 2003. Under this name the club won the northern division of the GFL2 for the first time in 2007. In the following promotion round to the GFL the Eagles lost both games to the Dresden Monarchs and missed out on promotion. Also in the 2007 season the team switched from its mother club SC Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
