The Catania Elephants are a professional
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 in
Catania, Italy
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...
. They played in the
Italian Football League
Italian Football League (IFL) is the top level American football league in Italy established in 1980.
History
In the 1970's teams formed and played in Italy. In 1980 the first official American football league in Italy was established and crow ...
from 2008 to 2012.
The Elephants reached the IFL Super Bowl Championship game in 2010 and 2012, but lost to the
Parma Panthers
The Parma Panthers are an American football team based in Parma, Italy that competes in the Italian Football League. The team was founded in 1981 by Vic Dasaro, an American veterinary student attending university in Parma.
Dasaro created the te ...
both times. The Elephants failed to apply for the 2013
IFL IFL may refer to:
;American football
*Intense Football League, (2004–2008) in the United States, merged into the Indoor Football League
*Indoor Football League, (2008–present) in the United States
*Intercontinental Football League, a European l ...
season due to money issues, so the team started the 2013 season in LeNAF (II Division), another nationwide football league with no imports (only Italian Players).
References
External links
Official website- IFL official website
- Catania Elephants official Website
American football teams in Italy
Catania
1984 establishments in Italy
American football teams established in 1984
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