The Lübeck Cougars are an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team from
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
.
The club had its greatest success in 2012 when it played in the
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 ...
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.
American Sports Club Lübeck e.V.
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 Regionalliga Nord
The Regionalliga Nord ( en, Regional League North) is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regional ...
. After three seasons in the Regionalliga the club was promoted to the 2. American football Bundesliga, now 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 ...
but lasted for only one season before returning to the Regionalliga.[Lübeck Cougars season by season results]
football-history.de, accessed: 17 October 2014
The next seven seasons the Cougars played either in the Regionalliga or the Oberliga below before making a return to the 2. Bundesliga in 2001. The club played nine seasons in this league, renamed to GFL 2 at the end of the 2007 season and was finally promoted to the German Football League in 2011 when the Mönchengladbach Mavericks
The Mönchengladbach Mavericks were an American football team from Mönchengladbach, Germany.
The club won promotion to the German Football League in 2010, and qualified for the semi finals of the play-offs the following year, its greatest succes ...
folded in the off-season and an additional place in the league became available.Cologne Falcons
The Cologne Falcons are an American football team from Cologne, Germany. The Falcons currently play most of their home games at Müngersdorf Sportpark, Ostkampfbahn.
The team was founded in 1994 by former members of the Red Barons Cologne, which ...
. Back in the GFL 2 the club came only fifth in 2013 but improved in 2014, finishing second, its best-ever finish in the league. It repeated this result in 2015.
Honours
* GFL
** League membership: 2012
Recent seasons
Recent seasons of the Cougars:
References
External links
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Official website
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German Football League official website
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Football History
Historic American football tables from Germany
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German Football League teams
American football teams in Germany
American football teams established in 1987
1987 establishments in West Germany
Sport in Lübeck