Austrian Football League 2012

Austrian Football League 2012

master	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna
final	Austrian Bowl XXVIII
Teams	6th
Games	30 + 3 play-off games
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The Austrian Football League 2012 is the 28th season of the top Austrian men's American football division . It began on March 24, 2012 with the game of AFC Kornmesser Rangers against Swarco Raiders Tirol (0:52) and ended on July 28, 2012 with a win by Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna against Swarco Raiders Tirol (48:34) in the Austrian Bowl XXVIII on the Hohe Warte in Vienna.

Compared to the previous season there was a reduction in the AFL teams from seven to six. New in the league are the AFC Kornmesser Rangers from Mödling, no longer the Carinthian Black Lions and the Salzburg Bulls . A simple round-trip round is played, which means a total of 10 games for each team. The best four teams of the regular season take part in the playoffs, with the first two having home rights . Its winners play in the Austrian Bowl for the Austrian title.

As in the previous year, ORF also broadcast some games live this season. In addition to five basic games and the Austrian Bowl XXVIII, the Charity Bowl 2012 was also broadcast live.

Teams

Vienna Vikings

Graz Giants

Swarco Raiders

Danube Dragons

Prague Panthers

AFC Rangers

AFL football teams (2012)

table

	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Pct	P35 +	P35−	Diff
AFL 2012
1	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	10	9	0	1	0.900	302	91	+211
2	Swarco Raiders Tirol	10	8th	0	2	0.800	303	109	+193
3	Graz Giants	10	6th	0	4th	0.600	314	249	0+65
4th	Danube Dragons	10	4th	0	6th	0.400	256	306	0-50
5	Prague Panthers	10	3	0	7th	0.300	274	365	0-91
6th	AFC grain knife Rangers	10	0	0	0	0.000	77	406	-329

Legend: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats, Pct = winning percentage,
P35 + = points scored (max. 35 more than opponents), P35− = allowed points (max. 35 more than own), Diff = difference in
qualification for the play-offs with home rights, qualification for the play-offs

game schedule

date	Kick off	home	Result	Away
week 1
March 24th	14:00	AFC grain knife Rangers	0:52	Swarco Raiders Tirol
25th March	14:00	Prague Panthers	33:37	Danube Dragons
25th March	15:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	20:13	Graz Giants
Week 2
March 31	14:00	Graz Giants	67: 0	AFC grain knife Rangers
March 31	15:00	Danube Dragons	3:39 (4: 1)	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna
April 1st	13:00	Prague Panthers	10:37	Swarco Raiders Tirol
Week 3
7th of April	14:00	Graz Giants	42:28	Prague Panthers
9th April	14:00	Swarco Raiders Tirol	31: 7	Danube Dragons
9th April	15:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	55: 0	AFC grain knife Rangers
Week 4
April 14th	15:00	Swarco Raiders Tirol	62: 0	AFC grain knife Rangers
April 14th	15:00	Prague Panthers	0:55	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna
April 15th	15:00	Danube Dragons	35:61	Graz Giants
Week 5
April 21	16:00	AFC grain knife Rangers	0:41	Danube Dragons
April 22	14:00	Prague Panthers	35:36	Graz Giants
April 22	15:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	17:15	Swarco Raiders Tirol
Week 6
April 28	14:00	Swarco Raiders Tirol	33: 0	Graz Giants
April 29	15:00	Danube Dragons	34:41	Prague Panthers
April 29	16:00	AFC grain knife Rangers	6:58	Vienna Vikings
Bye week
May 6th	15:00	Swarco Raiders Tirol	52: 14 *	Prague Panthers
Week 7
12th of May	16:00	Danube Dragons	65: 0	AFC grain knife Rangers
12th of May	17:30	Graz Giants	20:21	Swarco Raiders Tirol
May 13th	15:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	31: 0	Prague Panthers
Week 8
May 19th	16:00	AFC grain knife Rangers	7:54	Graz Giants
May 20th	15:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	37: 7 (2: 4)	Danube Dragons
Week 9
2th of June	17:00	Danube Dragons	27:35	Swarco Raiders Tirol
2th of June	17:30	Graz Giants	35:34	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna
3rd of June	14:00	Prague Panthers	54:30	AFC grain knife Rangers
Week 10
23rd June	16:00	AFC grain knife Rangers	34:59	Prague Panthers
23rd June	17:00	Swarco Raiders Tirol	12:14	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna
23rd June	17:00	Graz Giants	30:36	Danube Dragons
Play-offs: semi-finals
July 14th	17:00	Swarco Raiders Tirol	48:42	Graz Giants
15th of July	15:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	48:32 (3: 4)	Danube Dragons
Austrian Bowl XXVIII
July 28th	20:00	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	48:34	Swarco Raiders Tirol

	Blue River Bowl VI, VII and VIII, the previous victory statistics in brackets
*	Due to the laying of a new lawn in Innsbruck's Tivoli Stadium, the game was brought forward to May 6th.

Final round

Playoffs: Semi-Finals			Austrian Bowl XXVIII

2	Swarco Raiders Tirol	48
3	Graz Giants	42
			1	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	48

			2	Swarco Raiders Tirol	34
1	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	48

4th	Danube Dragons	32

Austrian Bowl XXVIII

Vikings players celebrate winning the Austrian Bowl XXVIII

MVP Christoph Gross

Austrian Bowl XXVIII - Vienna ( Hohe Warte , 4,640 spectators)
team		Points	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna		48	12	14th	14th	8th
Swarco Raiders Tirol		34	14th	0	14th	6th
Vikings	Raiders	player	Move
6th	0	Dusty Thornhill	8-yard run (PAT Christopher Kappel failed)
6th	7th	Talib Wise	27-yard run (PAT Christian Kellner)
6th	14th	Talib Wise	8-yard run (PAT Christian Kellner)
12	14th	Dusty Thornhill	3-yard run (2-point conv. Failed)
19th	14th	Christoph Budimir	10-yard pass from Christoph Gross (PAT Christopher Kappel)
26th	14th	Stefan Holzinger	14-yard pass from Christoph Gross (PAT Christopher Kappel)
26th	21st	Damaso Tarneller	29-yard pass from Kyle Callahan (PAT Christian Kellner)
33	21st	Stefan Ruthofer	83-yard fumble recovery (PAT Christopher Kappel)
40	21st	Kyle Kaiser	74-yard pass from Christoph Gross (PAT Christopher Kappel)
40	28	Talib Wise	66-yard pass by Kyle Callahan (PAT Christian Kellner)
40	34	Talib Wise	58-yard pass from Kyle Callahan (PAT Christian Kellner failed)
48	34	Benjamin Bubik	39-yard interception return (2-point conv. Christoph Budimir)
MVP : Christoph Gross, Vikings