Black Lions
Black Lions | |||
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City: | Klagenfurt | ||
Founded: | 2005 | ||
Resolved: | 2011 | ||
Team colors: | Black red Gold | ||
Head coach: | George Naum | ||
League (2011): | Austrian Football League | ||
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Greatest successes | |||
EFAF Cup quarter finalist | 2008 | ||
Stadion | |||
Surname: |
Villach Lind stadium |
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Address: | Meister-Erhard-Allee 29 9500 Villach |
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Play surface: | Natural grass | ||
Capacity: | 2,000 | ||
Contact | |||
Internet: | http://www.blacklions.at/ | ||
Data status | |||
March 26, 2011 |
The Black Lions are a former Austrian American football team from the Carinthian capital, Klagenfurt .
Club history
The Carinthian Black Lions were the youngest Austrian football club in the top division until 2011. When they were founded in 2005, they merged with the existing football teams of the Carinthian Falcons and the Carinthian Cowboys.
2008 was the internationally most successful year of the Carinthian Black Lions, when they first won the EFAF Cup against Badalona Dracs with 39:20, but then narrowly failed against the Parma Panthers away with 42:35 in the quarter-finals.
Together with the Cineplexx Blue Devils , the Black Lions formed the so-called interdivision in the AFL in the 2009 season . This means that they have to play championship games against the four seeded clubs of the AFL as well as against the clubs of Division I , whereby there can never be a duel with the Blue Devils from Hohenems . In the playoffs, the Black Lions had to give up early against the favored Danube Dragons with 41-37.
After another league reform for the 2010 and 2011 seasons , the Black Lions were part of the eight teams that included AFL. There they were able to surprise, as they did in 2009 when they won at home against Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna , by defeating the highly favored Turek Graz Giants in Graz .
From the 2011 season onwards, the team was only called Black Lions , without the prefix Carinthian . After this season, the game was abandoned for economic reasons.
Teams
Squad
As of May 4, 2010
Black Lions squad | ||||||
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Quarterbacks
Running backs
Wide receiver
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Offensive linemen
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Linebacker
Defensive backs
Special team
35 active, 0 inactive |
Junior teams
In addition to the fighting team, there were also two Black Lions junior teams:
- Youth: 15-16 years
- Juniors: 17–19 years
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Changes in Carinthian football! accessed on August 16, 2015
- ↑ Roster. Black Lions, accessed March 7, 2018 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 '4 " N , 14 ° 20' 48.8" E