German Football League 2005

German Football League 2005
master	Braunschweig Lions (4th title)
final	German Bowl XXVII
Teams	11
Games	60 + 7 play-off games
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The German Football League 2005 was the 27th season of the top German division in American football . The champions were the Braunschweig Lions , who prevailed against the Hamburg Blue Devils in the final .

League division

Dusseldorf panther Hamburg Blue Devils Berlin eagle Braunschweig Lions Cologne Falcons Dresden monarchs Marburg Mercenaries Munich cowboys Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns Stuttgart Scorpions Saarland Hurricanes

Teams 2005 GFL North GFL South0000

Overview of the participating teams and their all-time Bundesliga and GFL balance sheets.

Due to the voluntary withdrawal of the Franken Knights , only five teams took part in the southern group. As a result, the interconference games for the Hamburg Blue Devils were canceled.

	team	Years	S.	U	N	home			Selection			TD ratio
GFL North	Berlin Adler (TV)	22nd	160	6th	85	81	2	41	79	4th	44	7479: 4341
	Dusseldorf panther	22nd	172	10	71	89	7th	30th	83	3	41	7856: 3748
	Braunschweig Lions	11	87	0	34	46	0	14th	41	0	20th	4125: 2392
	Hamburg Blue Devils	10	77	4th	33	44	0	14th	33	4th	19th	3153: 1984
	Dresden monarchs	2	13	1	10	8th	1	3	5	0	7th	587: 550
	Cologne Falcons (N)	New	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0
GFL South	Munich Cowboys (N)	24	159	7th	103	90	1	44	69	6th	59	6716: 4911
	Stuttgart Scorpions	13	67	5	83	31	4th	37	26th	1	46	3511: 4184
	Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns	7th	28	4th	46	16	0	23	12	4th	23	1699: 2024
	Saarland Hurricanes	4th	7th	4th	34	3	3	17th	4th	1	17th	753: 1546
	Marburg Mercenaries	2	7th	1	14th	4th	0	7th	3	1	7th	509: 631

• (N) - Newcomers
• (TV) - defending champion

Season course

Regular season

In the GFL-Süd all teams started with one win and one loss. After that, however, they parted ways. The Marburg Mercenaries took off with a series of 15: 1 points. The Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns and the Saarland Hurricanes were able to keep up to some extent. But both teams had to give up on the last match days. For the unicorns it was still enough for second place in the final bill. The Hurricanes, on the other hand, even had to let the Stuttgart Scorpions pass. The Scorpions, which started badly with 2: 8 points, lost only once and ended the season with 10:10 points, as did the Hurricanes. But the Scorpions won the direct comparison of the two teams, including a memorable game, with the highest total score in GFL history of 143 points, 83:60. Two game days later, the Scorpions scored 83 points again in one game, against the bottom of the southern table, the Munich Cowboys, they scored 83:21. With that, the Scorpions had it in their own hands to come second. In the last game of the season against the Unicorns they led until six seconds before the end before the Unicorns could turn the game with a touchdown to a 29:26 victory. The Cowboys lost their last eight regular season games, finishing in fifth place with just one win.

The northern group saw a disastrous season for the record champions Düsseldorf Panther. The club, which had a say in the Bundesliga in the eighties and nineties, went out of the season without winning any points. You just lost three times, but overall it wasn't enough. The newcomer, the Cologne Falcons, on the other hand, started the season with three wins, but then had to realize that there is a rough wind in the GFL. The Hamburg Blue Devils (3:24) and the Braunschweig Lions (0:35 and 6:52) brought the Falcons back to the ground. And due to the final sprint of the reigning champions, the Berlin Adlers, the play-offs were even missed. This was achieved by the Braunschweig Lions, the Hamburg Blue Devils, the Dresden Monarchs, who had to leave a few fields after a very strong start, and the Adler, who started with 2: 8 points, but then only lost two games and, with an even position Points account, but still reached the play-offs.

Interconference Games

For the first time since the reintroduction of the Interconference Games in the 1998 season, the southern teams won more games than the northern teams. In the end it was 6: 4 for the south, but almost all games were very close. Five ended with a point difference of three or less points, only three games saw a point difference of more than one touchdown.

Closing tables

GFL North

	society	Sp	S.	U	N	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	Braunschweig Lions	12	9	0	3	18: 6	410: 177	+233
2.	Hamburg Blue Devils	10	7th	0	3	14: 6	224: 119	+105
3.	Dresden monarchs	12	7th	0	5	14:10	306: 290	+16
4th	Berlin eagle	12	6th	0	6th	12:12	376: 356	+20
5.	Cologne Falcons	12	4th	0	7th	10:14	178: 324	−146
6th	Dusseldorf panther	12	0	0	12	0:24	206: 418	−212

GFL South

	society	Sp	S.	U	N	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	Marburg Mercenaries	10	8th	1	1	17: 3	350: 174	+176
2.	Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns	10	6th	1	3	13: 7	292: 256	+36
3.	Stuttgart Scorpions	10	5	0	5	10:10	353: 343	+10
4th	Saarland Hurricanes	10	5	0	5	10:10	294: 298	−4
5.	Munich cowboys	10	1	0	9	2:18	87: 321	−234
6th

• Tie breaker
  • Stuttgart Scorpions ahead of Saarland Hurricanes because of the direct comparison won (83:60 and 33:27)

Relegation

Due to the withdrawal of the Franken Knights before the season, there was no relegation in the south, the GFL 2 -Südmeister, the Darmstadt Diamonds rose. In the north, the Düsseldorf Panthers were able to score their first victories and put the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in their place. After a sure 33:14 home win, they could also win the second leg at the Baltic Sea with 10: 7 and thus keep the class.

league	Home club	Visiting club	Result	After quarters
North	Dusseldorf panther	Kiel Baltic Hurricanes	33:14	13: 0, 20: 0, 0: 7, 0: 7
North	Kiel Baltic Hurricanes	Dusseldorf panther	7:10	7: 0, 0: 7, 0: 3, 0: 0

The Düsseldorf Panthers remain in the GFL-Nord. In the south, the Darmstadt Diamonds rise without relegation.

Play-offs

In the quarter-finals, the home teams achieved home wins. However, some games were fiercely competitive, the Braunschweig Lions only gained a decisive advantage over the Saarland Hurricanes, who were able to reach the play-offs for the first time in their history, through an intermediate sprint in the third quarter. The Marburg Mercenaries were still behind in the third quarter, before they took the Berlin Adler, the reigning champions, from the throne with 21 fourth quarter points. The Mercenaries had already achieved this feat last year when they defeated the Hamburg Blue Devils in the quarter-finals. And Schwäbisch Hall also had to bend a lead of the Dresden Monarchs. After being 16:27 behind, playing with just a few minutes in the fourth quarter, it was 30:27 for Haller in the end. Only the Hamburg Blue Devils made it to the semi-finals without counterpoints, and that of all things against the explosive attack of the Stuttgart Scorpions, who were defeated 30: 0.

In the semifinals, the Blue Devils were also included in the tight games. In a highly dramatic game in Marburg, the Hanseatic townspeople won 42:41 in extra time and were able to take revenge for the previous year's defeat. The game was decided by an extra point missed by Marburg. The Braunschweig Lions, on the other hand, left nothing to be desired and reached their ninth final in a row with a 33: 8 against Schwäbisch Hall.

Quarter finals

Semifinals

German Bowl XXVII - Hanover

1N

Braunschweig Lions

32

4S

Saarland Hurricanes

17th

1N

Braunschweig Lions

33

2S

Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns

8th

2S

Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns

30th

3N

Dresden monarchs

27

1N

Braunschweig Lions

31

2N

Hamburg Blue Devils

28

1S

Marburg Mercenaries

40

4N

Berlin eagle

21st

1S

Marburg Mercenaries

41

2N

Hamburg Blue Devils

42

2N

Hamburg Blue Devils

30th

3S

Stuttgart Scorpions

0

German Bowl

In the German Bowl XXVII, the Hamburg Blue Devils met the Braunschweig Lions for the sixth time in the last eight years. In a close match in front of 19,512 spectators in the Hanoverian AWD-Arena , the Lions were able to present a touchdown each and the Blue Devils followed suit. This order of points was only interrupted in the third quarter, when the Braunschweiger were able to increase the score to 24:14 with a field goal . The Blue Devils came up to 24:21 in the third quarter. But Sascha Gerasimov restored the ten point gap in the fourth quarter. In the final minute Hamburg was able to shorten it again, but the 31:28 connection remained the end result. With this, the Braunschweig Lions celebrated their fourth German Bowl triumph after five defeats in the final.

Scoreboard

German Bowl XXVII
team		Points	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Braunschweig Lions		31	7th	14th	3	7th
Hamburg Blue Devils		28	0	14th	7th	7th
Braunschweig	Hamburg	player	Move
7th	0	Marcel fragrance	11-meter pass by Adrian Rainbow (PAT Rothaar)
7th	7th	Toni Meinhardt	5-meter pass from Dough Baughman (PAT Madsen)
14th	7th	Marcel fragrance	23-meter pass by Adrian Rainbow (PAT Dölger)
14th	14th	Maximilian von Garnier	4-meter pass from Dough Baughman (PAT Madsen)
21st	14th	Marcel fragrance	40-meter pass by Adrian Rainbow (PAT Rothaar)
24	14th	Marco Rothaar	23-meter field goal
24	21st	David DeArmas	3-meter pass from Dough Baughman (PAT Madsen)
31	21st	Sascha Gerasimov	10-meter run (PAT Rothaar)
31	28	Dough Baughman	1-meter run (PAT Madsen)

Individual evidence

1. ^ First results of the GFL licensing for 2005 ( Memento from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Huddle 38/2005
3. ↑ AFVD Stats for GB XXVII PDF

Web links

• Official GFL homepage