German Football League 2005
German Football League 2005 | |
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master | Braunschweig Lions (4th title) |
final | German Bowl XXVII |
Teams | 11 |
Games | 60 + 7 play-off games |
← GFL 2004
GFL 2006 →
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2nd Bundesliga - 2005 ↓
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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
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 | |||||
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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 |
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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 | ||||||
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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
- ^ First results of the GFL licensing for 2005 ( Memento from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Huddle 38/2005
- ↑ AFVD Stats for GB XXVII PDF