Bucharest Warriors is an
American football team in
Romania, founded in 2007 by a group of football fans from Bucharest. They started meeting in parks and other obscure places to fool around together with the
Constanța Sharks, it is the first team to have brought the sport in Romania. The team has achieved 1st place in the editions of the
National American Football Championship of Romania, 2010 and 2011.
History
Because, prior to 2010, there wasn't any federation in the country to organize a national championship, Bucharest Warriors wasn't affiliated to any league and played only friendly games.
In 2010, the Bucharest Warriors was invited to its first official competition, the
Central European Football League
The Central European Football League (CEFL) is a European organization of American football which hosts two international competitions, CEFL Championship and CEFL Cup. The final game of the CEFL Championship playoffs is dubbed CEFL Bowl.
Until t ...
. On April 11, the Warriors hosted
Istanbul Cavaliers
Istanbul Cavaliers was an American football team in Turkey. The team was a semi-pro club team in the national Türkiye Korumalı Futbol Ligi (TKFL, American Football First League of Turkey). It was founded in 2005. The team's head coach was John D ...
in a qualification game for the respective competition. Also, one week after the game, Bucharest Warriors has begun their first campaign in an official competition organized by the
EFAF, the
Challenge Cup
The Challenge Cup is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940, due to World War I and World War II respectively. It involves am ...
.
In the autumn of the same year, together with three other teams from
Romania, the Bucharest Warriors have competed in the first-ever
Romanian Championship of American Football. On November 21, 2010, in Bucharest, Bucharest Warriors met
Cluj Crusaders, in the Romanian Bowl. The home team won the game, 56–12, becoming the first champion of
Romania.
The Bucharest Warriors retained the
CNFA title in 2011, after 14–6 and 15–20 against the same opponent from the previous year,
Cluj Crusaders.
Bucharest Warriors has initiated and trained over 500 persons in American football in Bucharest, and helped various teams to launch in Bucharest and other cities. The club is fully devoted in building American football in Bucharest and Romania and has great initiatives and a great fulfillment of its strategy.
See also
*
National American Football Championship of Romania
*
Romanian American Football Federation
*
Romania national American football team
References
External links
Official Website
American football teams in Romania
2007 establishments in Romania
American football teams established in 2007
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