Black Lions

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Black Lions Flag of Austria.svg
City: Klagenfurt
Founded: 2005
Resolved: 2011
Team colors: Black red Gold
Head coach: United StatesUnited States George Naum
League (2011): Austrian Football League
Greatest successes
EFAF Cup quarter finalist 2008
Stadion
Surname:

Villach Lind stadium

Address: Meister-Erhard-Allee 29
9500 Villach
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

Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receiver

Offensive linemen 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

  1. Changes in Carinthian football! accessed on August 16, 2015
  2. Roster. Black Lions, accessed March 7, 2018 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 37 '4 "  N , 14 ° 20' 48.8"  E