2013 German Football League

2013 German Football League German Football League American football File:German Bowl XXXV.jpg 120px Logo of German Bowl XXXV 4 May–12 October 2013 16 Allgäu Comets GFL Wiesbaden Phantoms GFL 2 Regular season German Football League GFL North German Football League New Yorker Lions Dresden Monarchs GFL South German Football League Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns Marburg Mercenaries German Bowl XXXV German Bowl New Yorker Lions Dresden Monarchs :Category:German Football League seasons GFL 2012 German Football League 2012 2014 German Football League 2014 The 2013 German Football League season was the thirty fifth edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany and fourteenth since the renaming of the American football Bundesliga to German Football league. The regular season started on 5 May and finished on 15 September 2013, followed by the play-offs. The season culminated in the German Bowl XXXV, staged on 12 October 2013 in Berlin, as in 2012, and the fourth time for the championship decider to be held in the German capital.List of German Bowls https://web.archive.org/web/20150929171113/http://gfl.info/text.php?Inhalt=bowls 2015-09-29 de GFL website, accessed: 23 September 2015 The German Bowl was won by the New Yorker Lions, a club from the city of Braunschweig, who defeated the Dresden Monarchs by a score of 35–34. It was the club's eighth title overall and their first since 2008 while Dresden made their first-ever German Bowl appearance. Modus Germany right 350 Location of teams in the German Football League 2013 Germany 53.50 10.00 Blue Devils Blue_pog.svg right Germany 50.95 6.966667 Falcons Blue_pog.svg right Germany 52.543056 13.405278 Adler Blue_pog.svg right Germany 52.500833 13.264167 Rebels Blue_pog.svg left Germany 51.040998 13.748278 Monarchs Blue_pog.svg left Germany 51.261593 6.733204 Panther Blue_pog.svg right Germany 52.290116 10.521575 Lions Blue_pog.svg right Germany 54.348889 10.123611 Baltic Hurricanes Blue_pog.svg right Germany 50.8 8.77 Mercenaries right Germany 48.218773 11.624760 Cowboys right Germany 49.37 10.17 Knights right Germany 49.248055 6.983888 Hurricanes right Germany 49.18 9.73 Unicorns right Germany 48.792295 9.18 Scorpions right Germany 50.05 8.14 Phantoms right Germany 49.48 8.47 Bandits right During the regular season each club played all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, resulting in each team playing 14 regular season games. There was no games between clubs from opposite divisions, inter conference games having been abolished after the 2011 season when the GFL was expanded from 14 to 16 teams.GFL 2013 football-aktuell.de, accessed: 23 September 2015Historic American football tables & results from Germany https://web.archive.org/web/20170928064827/http://football-history.de/ 2017-09-28 football-history.de, accessed: 15 September 2015 The four best teams in each division qualified for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite divisions played each other, whereby the better placed teams had home advantage. The first placed team played 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 could meet again. The eighth placed team in each division entered a two-leg play-off with the winners of the respective division of the German Football League 2, the second tier of the league system in Germany. The winners of this contest qualified for the GFL for the following season. Season overview The 2013 season saw one newly promoted team, the Cologne Falcons, who replaced the Lübeck Cougars in the northern division of the league.GFL 2012 football-aktuell.de, accessed: 15 September 2015 The Wiesbaden Phantoms were relegated from the GFL South at the end of the 2013 season after losing to the Allgäu Comets while, in the northern division, the Cologne Falcons defended their league place against the Bielefeld Bulldogs. For Wiesbaden it meant the end to a three-year stint in the league.GFL 2014 football-aktuell.de, accessed: 23 September 2015 In January 2014 the Hamburg Blue Devils withdrew from the northern division, leaving it to play with seven clubs in the 2014 season.Hamburg Blue Devils ziehen sich zuruck https://web.archive.org/web/20140226153225/http://www.gfl.info/text.php?Inhalt=newsmeldung&ID=8409 2014-02-26 de GFL website, published: 18 January 2014, accessed: 23 September 2015 The Dresden Monarchs played home games at three different venues that season as Heinz Steyer Stadion was unusable early in the season due to the 2013 European floods (coincidentally, the 2002 season, which saw Dresden promoted to the first division, also saw record flooding in Dresden) prompting them to move their home game against the Cologne Falcons to their training grounds at Bärnsdorfer Straße,https://www.wochenkurier.info/sachsen/dresden/artikel/monarchs-gewinnen-souveraen-5995/ Monarchs gewinnen souverän while the home game against Hamburg was held at Rudolf Harbig Stadion before the Monarchs returned to Heinz Steyer Stadion for the rest of their home games that season.http://stats.gfl.info/gfl/2013/dmhbd.htm Hamburg Blue Devils vs Dresden Monarchs (22.06.2013) Six of the eight teams qualified for the play-offs in 2012 did so again in 2013. Only the Düsseldorf Panther and the Stuttgart Scorpions missed out on post season play compare to the previous season. For Stuttgart it ended a run of fifteen consecutive post season appearances since 1998. In their stead the Munich Cowboys returned to the play-offs to make their twentieth appearance while, in the north, the New Yorker Lions returned after a two-year absence to make their sixteenth. In the quarter-finals of the play-offs the four northern clubs defeated their southern opponents, resulting in an all northern division semi-final for the first time since 1999. The 2011 and 2012 champions Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns were knocked-out by the Berlin Adler, losing at home in the GFL for the first time since 2010. In the semi-finals the first and second placed teams won their home games against the third and fourth placed clubs. In the German Bowl XXXV the New Yorker Lions then defeated the Dresden Monarchs in front of over 12,000 spectators 35–34, the fifth time the German Bowl had been decided by just one point. It was the first appearance from a club from the former East Germany in a German Bowl. For the Lions the 2013 title signalled a return to former dominance after four difficult seasons that had followed their twelve consecutive German Bowl appearances from 1997 to 2008. In the relegation play-offs between the last-placed southern team, the Wiesbaden Phantoms, and the winner of the GFL 2 South, the Allgäu Comets, the Comets won the first leg away 37–21 before losing 34–44 at home, thereby winning promotion to the GFL on overall points. The northern division saw the Cologne Falcons defeat the Bielefeld Bulldogs 42–30 at home and then lose 17–6 away, retaining their league place by just one point. League tables GFL The league tables of the two GFL divisions: GFL North P Position Team G Games W Wins T Ties L Losses PF Points for (total points scored) PA Points against (total points allowed) PCT Winning percentage 1 New Yorker Lions1413014931770.929 2 Dresden Monarchs1411035132540.786 3 Kiel Baltic Hurricanes1410044852490.714 4 Berlin Adler147073323420.500 5 Berlin Rebels146083653600.429 6 Hamburg Blue Devils1440102254480.286 7 Düsseldorf Panther1430112074960.214 8 Cologne Falcons1420122095030.143 GFL South P Position Team G Games W Wins T Ties L Losses PF Points for (total points scored) PA Points against (total points allowed) PCT Winning percentage 1 Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns1411125492230.821 2 Marburg Mercenaries1410134883530.750 3 Munich Cowboys149143802750.679 4 Rhein-Neckar Bandits149053953890.643 5 Saarland Hurricanes145092973890.357 6 Stuttgart Scorpions144192724300.321 7 Franken Knights1440103024880.286 8 Wiesbaden Phantoms1420122834190.143 Source: football-aktuell.de, GFL.info GFL2 The league tables of the two GFL2 divisions:GFL 2 2013 football.aktuell.de, accessed: 27 September 2015 GFL2 North P Position Team G Games W Wins T Ties L Losses PF Points for (total points scored) PA Points against (total points allowed) PCT Winning percentage 1 Bielefeld Bulldogs1413014872630.929 2 Troisdorf Jets1410135304000.750 3 Hamburg Huskies147164433630.536 4 Bonn Gamecocks146353733700.536 5 Lübeck Cougars146173503140.464 6 Osnabrück Tigers145094484570.357 7 Cottbus Crayfish145093564940.357 8 Rostock Griffins1410132435690.071 GFL2 South P Position Team G Games W Wins T Ties L Losses PF Points for (total points scored) PA Points against (total points allowed) PCT Winning percentage 1 Allgäu Comets#1312015062470.923 2 Frankfurt Universe149143682490.679 3 Nürnberg Rams148154043250.607 4 Ravensburg Razorbacks148153242940.607 5 Kirchdorf Wildcats147073662930.500 6 Frankfurt Pirates143382343430.321 7 Starnberg Argonauts1431102985260.250 8 Kaiserslautern Pikes#1311112905130.115 # The home game of the Kaiserslautern Pikes against the Allgäu Comets was not played.IN KÜRZE https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093115/http://www.fnp.de/regionalsport/frankfurt/IN-KUeRZE;art701,567998 2016-03-04 de Frankfurter Neue Presse, accessed: 27 September 2015 Key GFL: Qualified for play-offsGFL 2: Promoted Relegation play-offsPromotion play-offs Relegated Play-offs The quarter-finals of the 2013 play-offs were played on 21 and 22 September, the semi-finals on 28 September and 3 October and the German Bowl on 12 October 2013. The German Bowl was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin.German Bowl de Official website, accessed: 23 September 2015 The South was swept out of the playoffs in the quarter finals with defending champion Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns upset at home by the Berlin Adler. Ironically it was the fourth placed finisher in the South, Rhein-Neckar Bandits, who came closest to a semifinal berth by keeping the deficit against Braunschweig to a single score. All other northern entrants won their quarterfinals with big margins. On their way home, the Berlin Adler players earned negative press attention as they tried (and failed) to steal a plastic cow at a highway rest stop, damaging it in an attempt to fit it through the bus door.https://www.bunte.de/panorama/berlin-adler-footballer-klauen-werbe-kuh-54888.html Berlin Adler: Footballer klauen Werbe-Kuh 26 September 2013 After their first ever playoff home game, Dresden would thus be gifted a second one in the same season by their old rival Berlin Adler. Referencing the cow incident, Dresden had a similar plastic cow displayed in the stadium for the playoff game against the Adler. Ultimately, both home teams prevailed in the semifinals, Braunschweig knocking out the previous season's German Bowl loser Kiel and Dresden dispatching the Adler. The German Bowl would thus include a representative from the New States of Germany for the first time while Braunschweig made its record thirteenth German Bowl appearance after their 2009–2012 "wilderness years" during which they had been far from championship contention. German Bowl N1 New Yorker Lions 28 S4 Rhein-Neckar Bandits 21 S2 Marburg Mercenaries 9 N3 Kiel Baltic Hurricanes 47 S1 Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns 13 N4 Berlin Adler 42 N2 Dresden Monarchs 59 S3 Munich Cowboys 14 N1 New Yorker Lions 34 N3 Kiel Baltic Hurricanes 29 N4 Berlin Adler 21 N2 Dresden Monarchs 32 N1 New Yorker Lions 35 N2 Dresden Monarchs 34 References External links Official GFL website de Gfl Gfl Category:German Football League seasons