Berlin Bears
Berlin Bears 
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| City: | Berlin | ||
| Founded: | 1985 | ||
| Team colors: | Blue / red / white | ||
| Head coach: | Robert Schenk | ||
| League (2020): | Regional League East | ||
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| Participation FLE | 1994 | ||
| Participation in the 2nd Bundesliga | 1990-1994, 1997 | ||
| Champion Regionalliga Ost | 2017 | ||
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Degewo stadium |
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| Address: | Lipschitzallee 29, 12351 Berlin | ||
| Contact | |||
| Internet: | berlinbears.de | ||
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| January 24, 2020 | |||
The Berlin Bears are a football team from Berlin that took part in the Football League of Europe (FLE) in 1994 . The Berlin Bears are in the Neuköllner Sportfreunde 1907 e. V. is at home.
history
The beginnings
The Berlin Bears were founded in 1985; They initially trained in a park in the Neukölln district. In 1988 they took part for the first time in the regular game operations of the then Association League North.
In the 1989 season, they were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga, in which the Bears played from 1990 to 1994 inclusive. Since the Bears also competed in the Football League of Europe in 1994, the 2nd Bundesliga season was played with the second team to the end and seventh place was achieved, which was not enough to prevent relegation. This year the Berlin Bears were the second largest football club in Germany with over 600 members behind the Cologne Crocodiles.
Football League of Europe
Like the Frankfurt Gamblers , the Bears were based on a second division squad. This was mainly filled with Americans and Canadians to make him fit for the Football League of Europe. The Berlin Bears got out of the Football League of Europe after 1994, as the driving force of the FLE, Axel Gernert, withdrew from the FLE and preferred to join the Football-Bundesliga with the Hamburg Blue Devils , the FLE's figurehead at the time switch. After Gernert's exit, expenses would have risen to such an extent that they could no longer be covered by sponsors, so the Bears decided to exit the FLE.
According to the FLE
In 1995 the Bears competed in the Regionalliga Nordost, in which they played interrupted by participation in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1997 until 2000. In 2000, the team withdrew and stopped playing for the men's team. The men's team was only revived for the 2007 season and competed in the Association League East. This season they were able to celebrate promotion to the top division. And also in 2008 the Bears should finish the league first and thus rose to the regional league. 2009 started the season with a few teething problems. But in the end the Bears were able to secure fourth place and thus also stay in the league. 2010 started the season with a new head coach. After a good season, they ran out of air at the end of the season and finished the year in third place. In 2011, after many additions, the season started with high expectations. It was only enough for a place in midfield and the season ended in fourth place. 2012 did not go any better after many departures in the coach and player area. So one could only secure relegation by withdrawing another team. 2013 you could win with Andrew McDonough an American for the quarterback position. The young American completed a seminar abroad in Berlin and so decided to play for the Bears. The year was anything but positive: So you had to accept a defeat in the decisive game for relegation against city rivals Spandau Bulldogs and thus also lost the direct comparison for the penultimate place. After relegation, the Bears started in the Oberliga OST in 2014. Again there were changes in the coach and player area. In David John, for example, a man with great football experience was able to be engaged as defense coordinator. Despite a lack of experience, the very young Bears team proved their will to win and thus managed to get back up to the regional league unbeaten.
Current
The club currently consists of six teams: the men's team (Regionalliga Ost), the A-youth, B-youth and C-youth teams, as well as the senior flag and the Bambini flag team.
Flag football
The Flag Football Team is five times German champions. Founded in 2006 by Taric Al-Habash, they won the DFFL championship for the first time in 2007. That year, the Bears remained undefeated. They were able to repeat this success in 2008 and 2009. Even in these two years the Bears remained without defeat. It wasn't until 2010 that the Bears suffered another defeat after 3 years. However, they still won their fourth championship in a row in the final against the Hamburg Pioneers 12: 7. With new offensive coaches and a new quarterback, the flag team started the 2011 season with great expectations. You had to realize that the competition had prepared well for the new season and so you had to admit defeat to the Hamburg Pioneers in the semifinals, who then won the final. The following year the title was regained when the Berlin Bears defeated the Hamburg Pioneers Snappers in the final on home soil with 28:19. In 2013 the Bears lost very narrowly in the semifinals against the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes with 16:17. In the same year, the team took 7th place at the German Flag Open . In 2014 the Bears reached the final game in Hamburg again, which they clearly lost to the Hamburg Pioneers Snappers. Due to the change of association of cheerleaders (separate department at NSF), a separate club, the Berlin Flag Bears e. V. was founded in order to continue to participate in the license league operation (DFFL).
cheerleader
The Berlin Bears cheerleaders were already successful in the 1990s. With the resumption of play, the cheerleaders also came back. Their number has increased tenfold in recent years. Cheerleading teams (Teddys, Winnies, Lady Cubs, Bears Reloaded, Bears Nation) take part in the respective championships in all age groups. The cheerleaders of the Berlin Bears are an independent department of the Neuköllner Sportfreunde 1907 eV In 2016 they changed their association membership from the AFCVBB ( American Football and Cheerleading Association Berlin-Brandenburg ) to the CCVB ( Cheerleading and Cheer Performance Association Berlin ), which caused enormous problems with the issue of gaming licenses the footballer brought with it (see federal game regulations - membership in a competing association).
Others
The Berlin Adler football team was founded in 1979 under the name Berlin Bären , but then renamed. There is no connection between the two teams.
Web links
- Official homepage of the Berlin Bears
- Berlin Bears cheerleaders
- Berlin Flag Bears on Facebook
- Berlin Bears on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ^ Jan Johannsen: Hamburg Pioneers Snappers: German Masters 2014. (No longer available online.) In: flagfootball.de. October 5, 2014, archived from the original on April 11, 2018 .
- ^ Berlinbears cheerleaders. In berlinbears-cheerleader.de, accessed on January 24, 2020.