Badalona Dracs
Badalona Dracs 
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| City: | Badalona | ||
| Founded: | 1987 | ||
| Team colors: | Black silver | ||
| Head coach: | Oscar Catalayud | ||
| League (2020): | LNFA | ||
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| Greatest successes | |||
| EFAF Cup finalist | 2002 | ||
| EFL semi-finalist | 2003, 2004 | ||
| Spanish master | 1998, 1999, 2002-2004, 2014, 2016-2019 | ||
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City-campground de Badalona |
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| Contact | |||
| Address: | Independencia 79-83, 08915 Badalona | ||
| Internet: | badalonadracs.es | ||
| Data status | |||
| June 23, 2020 | |||
The Badalona Dracs (founded as Badalona Drags ) are an American football team from Badalona , Catalonia , Spain . You are the current Spanish champion and with ten national titles the most successful team in Spain.
Club history
The Badalona Drags were founded in December 1987 by Pere Moliner, the club's first president, Ramón Ventura and the Italian Alfonso Genchi as the first Spanish football club. On March 19 of the following year, the Drags hosted their first game against the Italian club Palermo Cardinals , which was lost 12:18. This game was also the first American football game on Spanish soil. Later in 1988 a four-team league was formed with the L'Hospitalet Pioners , Barcelona Boxers and the Barcelona Búfals . This first season of a Spanish league, more precisely a Catalan league, the Lliga Catalana, was won by the Drags. In the final, the Drags prevailed against the Búfals with 15:12. The following year, the Drags reached the final again, in which they were defeated by the Boxers with 18:13.
After a few difficult years in the early 1990s, the first Spanish championship title, the Spanish League (LNFA), founded in 1995, was not won until the 1997/1998 season with the new Mexican coach Carlos Baroccio .
After the championship title was defended in 1998/1999, the Drags 2000 could not do justice to the high role of favorites and surprisingly lost 8-0 in the final against the Granollers Fenix . Nevertheless, history was made this year when they became the first Spanish team to win a European Football League game against the French team Asnières Molosses .
In 2002, in addition to winning the championship, the club's greatest international success up to that point followed, when it was able to advance to the final of the EFAF Cup , but was beaten by the Graz Giants 51:12.
In addition to winning the Spanish championship, they were also able to operate successfully internationally in 2003 and 2004 when the Drags made it to the semifinals of the European Football League. There the team was unable to convince against the Braunschweig Lions (2003) or the Bergamo Lions (2004).
In autumn 2004 the team changed its name to Badalona Dracs . In the following years it was not possible to win a championship title for a long time, although in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 there were only one final defeat in between. No major successes could be recorded internationally either. In 2008 and 2009 the team failed in the preliminary round of the EFAF Cup and in 2010 in the preliminary round of the EFL.
Since the 2013 season, the Dracs have always been in the final of the Spanish championship. They were able to win this both in 2014 and in the years 2016 to 2018. Internationally, they celebrated a great success in 2014 with the runner-up in the European Football League.
successes
- Spanish championship
- Title win: 1998, 1999, 2002–2004, 2014, 2016–2019
- Vice championship: 2000, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015
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European Football League
- Semi-finals: 2003, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History. In: badalonadracs.es. Retrieved June 23, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ La storia. In: palermoalvertice.it. ASD Palermo Cardinals, accessed June 23, 2020 (Italian).
- ↑ Palmarès Lliga Catalana Sènior. In: fcfa.cat. Federació Catalana de Futbol Americà, accessed June 23, 2020 (Catalan).
- ↑ "Team Information - Badalona Dracs" online at the official website of the Eurobowl ; As of May 7, 2010.
Web links
- Official website of the Badalona Dracs (Spanish)