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The 2020
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 ''Ameri ...
season was the planned 42nd edition of the top-level
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competition in Germany. The regular season was expected to start on 25 April and was expected to end on 6 September 2020, followed by the play-offs. Due to the
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, the start of the season was first postponed, and later completely cancelled. The season was expected to conclude with
German Bowl The German Bowl is the annual national championship game in the sport of American football in Germany. It is contested by the two best teams of the German Football League. The New Yorker Lions, from Braunschweig, are the record winners of the Ger ...
XLII, which was planned to be held on 10 October 2020 in Frankfurt. Instead
German Bowl XLII The 42nd annual German Bowl was the championship of the 2021 German Football League, originally planned for the 2020 German Football League which was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Dresden Monarchs beat the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns ...
was held on October 9, 2021 to end the 2021 German Football League season.


Modus

During the regular season each club plays all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, resulting in each team playing 14 regular season games. The best four teams in each division qualify for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite divisions play each other, whereby the better placed teams have home field advantage. The first placed team plays the fourth placed from the other division and the second placed the third placed team. From the semi-finals onwards teams from the same division can meet again. The eighth placed team in each division enter a two-leg play-off with the winner of the respective division of the
German Football League 2 The German Football League 2 (GFL2) is the second tier of American football in Germany, below the German Football League. Until 2007, the league was known as the ''2. Bundesliga''. League structure The ''GFL2'', formerly the ''2. Bundesliga'', wh ...
, the second tier of the league system in Germany. The winners of this contest qualify for the GFL for the following season.


League tables


GFL

The league tables of the two GFL divisions:


North


South


References


External links


Official GFL website
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German Football League seasons
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 ''Ameri ...