Frankfurt Pirates

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Frankfurt Pirates Flag of Germany.svg
City: Frankfurt am Main
Founded: 1990
Team colors: Gold & black
Head coach: Keith Williams
League (2020): GFL2 south
Current uniforms
Frankfurt Pirates
Stadion
Surname:

Nieder-Eschbach sports field

Address: Heinrich-Becker-Str. 23
60437 Frankfurt am Main
Owner: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Play surface: Natural grass
Contact
Address: DVAS (Frankfurt Pirates) eV
PO Box 50 09 40
60397 Frankfurt am Main
Internet: www.frankfurt-pirates.de
Data status
December 13, 2019

The Frankfurt Pirates are an American football team from Frankfurt am Main that will play in GFL2 in 2020.

history

In 1990 the Frankfurt Pirates (German: Frankfurter Piraten) were founded with the aim of establishing American sports in the Rhine-Main area . In the beginning there was a baseball and a softball team, which were followed by three youth basketball teams in the following years . Then in 1997 the American Football division was launched. This currently consists of a men's and several youth teams.

Teams

Men's

The men's team took part in league games for the first time in 1998 in the Landesliga des AFV Hessen e. V. and have since been two-time Hessen champions and two-time runner-ups.

Rankings in the first 10 years

2001 - First of the Regionalliga Mitte (Group A)

2002 - 2nd in the Regionalliga Mitte (group blue)

2003 - Third in the Regionalliga Mitte (Group North)

2004 - 5th in the Oberliga Hessen

2005 - 5th in the Oberliga Hessen

2006 - 2nd in the Oberliga Hessen

2007 - 4th in the Oberliga Hessen (Group West)

Rankings in the last 12 years

  • 2008 - First of the Oberliga Hessen (Group A)
  • 2009 - 6th in the Regionalliga Mitte
  • 2010 - First of the Regionalliga Mitte (Group North)
  • 2011 - 6th of the German Football League 2 (group south)
  • 2012 - 5th of the German Football League 2 (group south)
  • 2013 - 6th of the German Football League 2 (group south)
  • 2014 - 8th of the German Football League 2 (group south)
  • 2015 - 6th in the Regionalliga Mitte
  • 2016 - Seventh in the Regionalliga Mitte
  • 2017 - 4th in the Regionalliga Mitte
  • 2018 - Third in the Regionalliga Mitte
  • 2019 - First of the Regionalliga Mitte

Source: AFVD table

successes

  • 2010 & 2019 - Promotion to GFL2 South
  • 2008 - Promotion to the Middle Regional League
  • 1999 - Hessen Champion State League Hessen
  • 2000 - Hessen Champion Oberliga Hessen
  • 2019 - Champion of the Regionalliga Mitte

A-youth

In 2002 the A youth team for 16 to 18 year olds was founded, which currently plays in the Middle Regional League.

successes

  • 2010 - Promotion to the regional league
  • 2011 - bronze champion regional league
  • 2012 - Promotion to the youth Bundesliga

B-youth

In 2005 the B youth team was created, in which young people between the ages of 13-16 play. Since the youth B season always takes place in autumn, the youths have the opportunity to play in the youth A and C, depending on their age.

successes

  • 2005 - Vice-Hesse champion
  • 2006 - Vice-Hesse champion
  • 2007 - Hessen Champion
  • 2010 - Vice Hesse Champion
  • 2011 - Vice Hessian Champion
  • 2012 - Hesse champion
  • 2013 - Vice Hessian Champion

C-youth

With the restructuring of the youth flag league in 2011, the flag youth team was transformed into the C youth team. Young people under the age of 15 play here.

successes

  • 2011 - 1st C youth league Hessen Group Black

Flag youth

The flag team was founded in autumn 2002 and quickly made a name for itself in spring 2003 with victories in indoor bowls. The following years were crowned with further successes. When the AFVD introduced a C-tackle league in 2011, the Frankfurt Pirates decided to dissolve the flag youth and provide a C-tackle team.

successes

  • 2004 - 1st place Diamonds Bowl
  • 2005 - Hessen Champion AFVH Indoor Bowl
  • 2006 - Hessen Champion AFVH Indoor Bowl
  • 2006 - Hessen Champion
  • 2007 - Hessen Champion
  • 2008 - Vice-Hessen Champion
  • 2010 - Vice Hesse Champion

Cheerleading

At the same time as the football department was founded, the cheerleading department was launched in 1997.

It currently consists of three groups:

  • (12–30 years) Senior and Junior Cheer
  • (8-11 years old) PeeWee
  • (16–30 years) senior dance team

In addition to appearing at all Frankfurt Pirates football games, the cheerleaders are at various shows at sponsors and other events, e.g. B. Museumsuferfest or Klaa Paris to see.

successes

  • 2001 - 1st place in the Junior Mixed category at the Hessian championships
  • 2002 - 2nd Vice-Hesse Champion Senior Dance
  • 2003 - Hessian bronze champion for the all-girl youth team
  • 2004 - Hessian bronze champion for the all-girl youth team
  • 2005 - Hessian bronze champion for the all-girl youth team
  • 2008 - 2nd place for the senior cheer team

Stadion

The Frankfurt Pirates played until May 13, 2018 on the sports field Uni Campus Westend / Philipp-Holzmann-Schule, a natural grass field with a spectator capacity of 2,500. In 2013 around 6,680 spectators came to the home games of the pirates, the average was around 954 spectators. The home game on June 22, 2013, was played in the Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena against city rivals Universe Frankfurt . 5,300 American football fans attended this first "Frankfurt Bembel". The pirates have been playing on the Nieder-Eschbach sports field since July 22, 2018.

season Total audience Home games cut capacity workload
2009 X.XXX X X.XXX X.XXX XX, XX%
2010 X.XXX X X.XXX X.XXX XX, XX%
2011 953 7th 159 2,500 6.35%
2012 2,724 7th 389 2,500 15.57%
2013 6,680 7th 954 2,500 38.17%

Source: Official statistics page of GFL 1 & 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFVD table . In: afvh.de . Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ GFL - GERMAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE . GFL. Retrieved April 10, 2019.

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