Championnat Elite de Football Américain

Championnat Elite

Full name	Championnat Elite de Football Américain
sport	American football
abbreviation	ELITE
Association	Fédération Française de Football Américain - FFFA
League foundation	1982
Teams	8th
Country countries	France
Title holder	Flash de La Courneuve
Record champions	Flash de La Courneuve

The Championnat Élite de Football Américain , also known as Casque de Diamant , is the competition for the French championship title in American football . The organizer is the French football association Fédération Française de Football Américain (FFFA). The competition has been held in league mode with subsequent play-offs since 1982. Until 1994, the final and the championship title were called Casque d'Or .

history

For the first season in 1982 there were only four teams, all of which came from the greater Paris area. The Spartacus de Paris team won the title with a 44-0 win in the final for the Casque d'Or (Golden Helmet) against Méteores de Nogent. In the early years, the Panthères Jaunes de Nantes was only represented once in 1984 by a team from outside the capital region. In 1986 ten teams competed, all from Paris and its suburbs.

With the 1987 season and the expansion of the league to 16 teams, the Casque d'Or really became a national competition. The Aix-en-Provence Argonautes were the first team from outside the Île-de-France to reach the semi-finals. Two years later they even reached the final, in which the Paris Castors celebrated their third title in a row, replacing Spartacus as record champions. From 1990 to 1992 the Argonautes copied this series and also won three titles in a row.

For the 1995 season, the name of the championship was changed to Casque de Diamant (diamond helmet). The title of the second division was renamed from Casque d'Argent (Silver Helmet) to Casque d'Or. The Casque d'Argent was henceforth awarded as a championship of the third division. The first Casque de Diamant went to the Aix-en-Provence Argonautes. By 2002 four more national titles followed, making the Argonautes the most successful national team with eight championships. By reaching the Casque de Diamant in 2004, the Argonautes were represented in the final of the French championship for 16 consecutive years, and this record is still there today.

The most frequent opponent of the Argonautes in the Casque de Diamant was Flash de La Courneuve . With five titles in a row from 2005 to 2009, Flash set a record that continues to this day, replacing the Argonautes as the dominant team in the championship. In the 2011 season, Flash won the ninth championship title and has been the French record champion ever since.

The titles in 2013 and 2014 went to the Thonon Black Panthers , who had to admit defeat to the current title holder Saint-Ouen Cougars in the Casque de Diamant 2015.

mode

The league is divided into two groups, a north and a south group, each with four teams. In the regular season there are both matches within the group and games between teams from different groups, the best four teams in the overall table reach the play-offs, the first receiving the fourth and the second receiving the third. The relegation candidates, or the participants in the relegation, are determined based on the rankings within the groups. The games against teams in the other group are also rated.

The mode has existed in this form since 2011, with the number of teams in the North group differing between four and five. The number of games played by the teams within and outside of their own group varied accordingly. Each team is currently playing a home game and an away game against opponents in their own group. Teams from different groups meet each other once.

Teams of the 2020 season

Group north

• Spartiates d'Amiens
• Molosses d'Asnières
• Evry Corsaires
• Flash de La Courneuve
• Villeneuve d'Ascq Vikings
• Saint-Ouen Cougars

Group south

• Aix-en-Provence Argonautes
• Grizzlies Catalans
• Centaures de Grenoble
• Marseille Blue Stars
• Montpellier Hurricanes
• Thonon Black Panthers

Finals

French championship finals

	date	master	Vice	Result	venue
Casque d'Or
I.	1982	Spartacus de Paris	Météores de Nogent	44: 00
II	May 21, 1983	Spartacus de Paris	Ang Bleus de Montreuil	34:14
III	1984	Ang Bleus de Montreuil	Spartacus de Paris	20: 00
IV	1985	Paris jets	Challengers de Paris	6-0
V	1986	Ang Bleus de Montreuil	Spartacus de Paris	20: 20
VI	June 21, 1987	Paris Castors	Paris jets	75: 00
VII	June 26, 1988	Paris Castors	Ang Bleus de Joinville 1	7-0
VIII	June 18, 1989	Paris Castors	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	14:13
IX	June 24, 1990	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Paris Castors	34: 70
X	June 16, 1991	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Paris Castors	29: 70
XI	June 13, 1992	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Sphinx du Plessis-Robinson	33:20
XII	June 12, 1993	Paris Castors	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	27:19
XIII	June 26, 1994	Castors-Sphinx du Plessis-Robinson 2	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	28:22
Casque de Diamant
I.	June 25, 1995	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Castors-Sphinx du Plessis-Robinson	36:16
II	June 16, 1996	Mousquetaires du Plessis-Robinson 2	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	23:19
III	June 14, 1997	Flash de La Courneuve	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	45:28
IV	June 14, 1998	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Flash de La Courneuve	28:14
V	June 20, 1999	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Asnières Molosses	27:20
VI	June 17, 2000	Flash de La Courneuve	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	68:35
VII	June 23, 2001	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Flash de La Courneuve	30:23
VIII	June 23, 2002	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	Flash de La Courneuve	23:21
IX	June 1, 2003	Flash de La Courneuve	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	28:24
X	June 19, 2004	Spartiates d'Amiens	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	41:31
XI	June 18, 2005	Flash de La Courneuve	Spartiates d'Amiens	33:27
XII	June 17, 2006	Flash de La Courneuve	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	48:24
XIII	June 16, 2007	Flash de La Courneuve	Thonon Black Panthers	21: 60
XIV	June 28, 2008	Flash de La Courneuve	Élancourt Templiers	28:22
XV	June 20, 2009	Flash de La Courneuve	Thonon Black Panthers	41:27
XVI	June 27, 2010	Spartiates d'Amiens	Flash de La Courneuve	24:21
XVII	June 18, 2011	Flash de La Courneuve	Centaures de Grenoble	45:27
XVIII	June 23, 2012	Spartiates d'Amiens	Thonon Black Panthers	10: 70
XIX	June 22, 2013	Thonon Black Panthers	Flash de La Courneuve	14: 00
XX	June 28, 2014	Thonon Black Panthers	Asnières Molosses	35:34
XXI	20th June 2015	Saint-Ouen Cougars	Thonon Black Panthers	28: 70
XXII	June 25, 2016	Saint-Ouen Cougars	Nice dauphins	28:17
XXIII	June 24, 2017	Flash de La Courneuve	Thonon Black Panthers	44:40
XXIV	June 30, 2018	Flash de La Courneuve	Thonon Black Panthers	20:14
XXV	June 29, 2019	Thonon Black Panthers	Saint-Ouen Cougars	24: 70	Lille Métropole Stadium

¹ formerly Anges Bleus de Montreuil

² formerly Sphinx du Plessis-Robinson or Castors-Sphinx du Plessis-Robinson

Ranking list of participants in the Casque de Diamant from 1995 and Casque d'Or until 1994

rank	team	title	Participation
1	Flash de La Courneuve	11	16
2	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	8th	17th
3	Paris Castors †	4th	6th
4th	Thonon Black Panthers	3	9
5	Spartiates d'Amiens	3	4th
6th	Mousquetaires du Plessis-Robinson	2	4th
	Ang Bleus de Joinville	2	4th
	Spartacus de Paris	2	4th
9	Saint-Ouen Cougars	2	3

^† Club existed until 1993 and was re-established in 2009

See also

• European national championships in American football

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Histoire et palmarès du Casque de Diamant In: fffa.org (French)

Web links

• French American Football Association (FFFA)