Big6 European Football League 2014

Big6 European Football League 2014
master	Berlin eagle
Teams	6th
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The Big6 European Football League 2014 was the first season of the newly created Big6 European Football League competition . The Big6 replaced the previous European Football League competition to determine the Eurobowl winner and thus replaced it as a top-class European competition. The concept of the Big6 provides that the six supposedly strongest teams in Europe compete against each other. In contrast to the European Football League, which continued to be hosted by the EFAF , the organizers of the Big6 were the participating teams and their national associations. However, the Big6 EFL was recognized by the EFAF. At the same time as these European team competitions, some other national associations took part in the newly created IFAF Europe Champions League , which, however, was much less staffed.

Attendees

The field of participants in the first season of the Big6 consisted of the four semi-finalists of the European Football League 2013 and was completed by the two participants of the German Bowl 2013 .

With Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna , the reigning Eurobowl title and record winner of the Eurobowl was in the starting field. Thanks to last year's finalist and three-time Eurobowl winner Swarco Raiders Tirol , both participants in the Austrian Bowl were in the Big6. The two strongest national leagues, the German and the Austrian, were each represented by two finalists from the previous year. With the three other former Eurobowl winners, New Yorker Lions (two titles), Berlin Adler and Calanda Broncos (one title each), all Eurobowl champions of the last eleven years were in the field. Only the German runner-up, the Dresden Monarchs , did not yet have any international successes.

Group stage

Group A

With the reigning Eurobowl champion and Austrian national champion Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna as well as two participants in the German Bowl, group A was the group to be assessed more strongly. After the first two games each ended with an away win and the New York Lions had a positive point difference, each of the three teams had realistic final chances before the decisive game.

	society	Sp	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	New York Lions	2	2: 2	30:24	+6
2.	Dresden monarchs	2	2: 2	51:52	−1
3.	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	2	2: 2	49:54	−5

	Dresden May 3, 2014 4:00 p.m.		Dresden monarchs	10: 17	New York Lions		Glücksgas-Stadion spectators: 6,217
				(3: 0, 0: 0, 7:10, 0: 7) Match report

	Braunschweig May 17, 2014 7:00 p.m.		New York Lions	13:14	Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna		Eintracht Stadium spectators: 4,000
				(0: 7, 7: 0, 0: 0, 6: 7) Match report

	Vienna June 15, 2014 3 p.m.		Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna	35:41	Dresden monarchs		Hohe Warte stadium : 2.500
				(0: 7, 21:14, 7: 8, 7:12) Game report

Group B

In Group B, the champions from 2010 to 2012 met. In addition, all three teams have been in the semifinals of the Eurobowl in the past two years. Since the first two games each ended with a defeat for the Calanda Broncos, the final group game saw the group win and the associated entry into the Eurobowl.

	society	Sp	TD	Diff.	Points
1.	Berlin eagle	2	60:30	+30	4-0
2.	Swarco Raiders Tirol	2	50:35	+15	2: 2
3.	Calanda Broncos	2	37:82	−45	0: 4

	Chur April 12, 2014 3 p.m.		Calanda Broncos	17:40	Swarco Raiders Tirol		Stadium Ringstrasse spectators: 910
				(0:23, 10: 0, 7:17, 0: 0) Match report

	Berlin May 17th, 2014 3 p.m.		Berlin eagle	42:20	Calanda Broncos		Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark spectators: 5,000
				(13: 6, 15: 0, 7: 0, 7:14) Match report

	Innsbruck June 14, 2014 8:00 p.m.		Swarco Raiders Tirol	10:18	Berlin eagle		Tivoli Stadion Tirol spectators: 5,822
				(3: 3, 0: 0, 7: 8, 0: 7) Match report

Eurobowl XXVIII

→ Main article : Eurobowl XXVIII

In the Eurobowl, two German teams faced each other with the Lions from Braunschweig and the Berlin Adlers. The game was played in the Eagles' home stadium, but the Lions were officially listed as the home team.

	Berlin July 19, 2014 2:00 p.m. ( CEST )		New York Lions	17:20	Berlin eagle		Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark spectators: 2,368
				(7: 7, 3: 3, 0: 7, 7: 3) Match report

See also

European Football League 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} BIG6: Playoffs for entry into the Eurobowl . In: bigsix.eu , June 13, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2015.

Web links

• Official site of the EFL (English)
• Official website of the BIG6