Big6 European Football League
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| Full name | Big6 European Football League |
| Current season | Big6 2018 |
| sport | American football |
| abbreviation | Big6 EFL, Big6 |
| League foundation | 2014 |
| Teams | 4th |
| Title holder | New York Lions |
| Record champions | New Yorker Lions (4 titles) |
| Website | big6.eu |
The Big6 European Football League , or Big6 for short , is a sports competition for American football club teams at European level that has been held annually since 2014. The Big6 final is the Eurobowl , which has been held since 1986 and was integrated into the European Football League competition before 2014 .
history
With the founding of IFAF Europe, the European subsidiary of IFAF , the previous European American Football Association EFAF was to be replaced. At the same time, in 2014 IFAF installed the IFAF Europe Champions League competition for European club teams. Until then, the European Football League (EFL) was the competition in which the supposedly best teams in Europe competed against each other. The EFL was continued parallel to the IFAF Europe Champions League. Officially, this was not organized by the EFAF, but by the participating teams and their national associations. In order to make the competition more attractive and to be more fair to the different performance levels, the strongest teams competed against each other in a separate competition, the Big6 European Football League (Big6). Since the teams that had dominated the EFL in previous years all took part in the first season of the Big6 in 2014, the Big6 is currently considered the most prestigious competition for European club teams.
Competition mode
Up to the 2017 season, the game was played in two groups, each with three teams. Each team competed once away in a simple round and enjoyed home rights once. The two group winners then competed against each other in the Eurobowl . In the 2018 season, only four teams will take part in the competition. The two finalists from last year each play once against two challengers. Each team competes once away and has one home right. Then the two teams with the most points will compete against each other in the final of the Eurobowl.
The previous seasons
| year | Field of participants | winner | |
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| 2014 |
 Dresden Monarchs New Yorker Lions Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna 
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Berlin Adler Calanda Broncos Swarco Raiders Tirol
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Berlin eagle
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| 2015 |
 Flash de La Courneuve New Yorker Lions Braunschweig (2) Swarco Raiders Tirol (2)
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Berlin Adler (2) Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns Vienna Vikings (2)
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New Yorker Lions Braunschweig
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| 2016 |
Aix-en-Provence Argonautes New Yorker Lions Braunschweig (3) Vienna Vikings (3)
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Berlin Adler (3) Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns (2) Swarco Raiders Tirol (3)
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New Yorker Lions Braunschweig
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| 2017 |
 Amsterdam Crusaders Badalona Dracs New Yorker Lions Braunschweig (4)
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Berlin Rebels Frankfurt Universe Milano Seamen 
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New Yorker Lions Braunschweig
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| Last year's finalists | challenger | ||
| 2018 |
New Yorker Lions Braunschweig (5) Frankfurt Universe (2)
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Amsterdam Crusaders (2) Flash de La Courneuve (2)
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New Yorker Lions Braunschweig
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Web links
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| Former competitions |
