Italian Bowl

The Italian Bowl is the final of the Italian American Football Championship and is hosted by the Italian Football Association FIDAF. Until 2014 the game was played under the name Superbowl italiano . The current title holders are the Rhinos from Milan.

history

The first final according to the official count of the Italian championship took place in 1981. The winners of this game were the Rhinos Milano , who celebrated a 24-8 win against the Gallarate Frogs . At that time, the final was called Superball and was organized by the AIFA (Associazione Italiana Football Americano). The second final a year later was based on the NFL final under the name Superbowl II . Again the Rhinos prevailed against the Frogs and the third final went to the Rhinos.

From 1988 the Superbowl Italiano was organized by the Federazione Italiana American Football (FIAF), the successor organization to the AIFA. In 1989 the Legnano Frogs celebrated their third title win in a row and replaced the Milano Rhinos as record champions with their fourth title. The 1998 season began the great era of the Bergamo Lions , who won eleven titles in a row by 2008. As a result of the FIAF's exclusion from the national Olympic federation CONI , the National Football League Italy was founded, which continued to operate the Italian Superbowl from 2002. For the 2008 season there were two parallel championships in Italy. In addition to the NFLI, which hosted the Superbowl italiano XXVIII , the Italian Football League , whose final was called the Italian Super Bowl , started its first season. Both finalists and another three of the eight NFLI teams of the 2007 season joined the new IFL. The remaining three teams, including the first of the regular season, the Marines Lazio, initially remained loyal to the NFLI. For the 2009 season, the remaining top teams switched to the IFL and the NFLI was dissolved. The Italian Superbowl was then played by the Federazione Italiana Football , while the IFL took over the function of the official Italian championship with the Italian Super Bowl .

List of finals

number	date		winner	loser	Result		place	Stadion
Superball (AIFA)
I.	04th July 1981		Rhinos Milano	Gallarate Frogs	24: 80		Santa Margherita Ligure	Campo Senatore Eugenio Broccardi
Superbowl italiano (AIFA)
II	03rd July 1982		Rhinos Milano	Gallarate Frogs	11: 00		Pesaro	Tonino Benelli Stadium
III	0July 9, 1983		Rhinos Milano	Bologna Warriors	20:14		Genoa	Palasport
IV	07th July 1984		Busto Arsizio Frogs	Bologna Warriors	16: 60		Rimini	Stadio Romeo Neri
V	0July 6, 1985		Bologna Doves	Pesaro Angels	27:11		Padua	Stadio Silvio Appiani
VI	05th July 1986		Bologna Warriors	Pesaro Angels	18: 80		Bologna	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara
VII	July 11, 1987		Legnano Frogs	Milano Seamen	27:24		Rimini	Stadio Romeo Neri
Superbowl italiano (FIAF)
VIII	0July 9, 1988		Legnano Frogs	Bologna Warriors	17: 00		Ancona	Stadio Dorico
IX	0July 8, 1989		Legnano Frogs	Milano Seamen	39:33		Parma	Stadio Ennio Tardini
X	July 21, 1990		Rhinos Milano	Legnano Frogs	33: 60		Rimini	Stadio Romeo Neri
XI	0July 6, 1991		Phoenix San Lazzaro	Torino Giaguari	38:16		Monza	Brianteo Stadium
XII	04th July 1992		Pharaones Milano	Bergamo Lions	35:25		Bolzano	Drusus Stadium
XIII	July 10, 1993		Bergamo Lions	Gladiatori Roma	48:39		Telgate	Campo Comunale
XIV	02nd July 1994		Legnano Frogs	Rhinos Milano	37:27		Legnano	Giovanni Mari Stadium
XV	June 24, 1995		Legnano Frogs	Gladiatori Roma	32:26		Cesenatico	Alfiero Moretti Stadium
XVI	June 29, 1996		Phoenix Bologna	Gladiatori Roma	25:20		Ancona	Stadio Dorico
XVII	June 21, 1997		Phoenix Bologna	Legnano Frogs	42:35		Monza	Brianteo Stadium
XVIII	July 18, 1998		Bergamo Lions	Legnano Frogs	29:28		Catania	Santa Maria Goretti Stadium
XIX	0June 5, 1999		Bergamo Lions	Bolzano Giants	49:14		Bolzano	Europa stadium
XX	0July 8, 2000		Bergamo Lions	Bolzano Giants	49:27		Milan	Velodromo Maspes-Vigorelli
XXI	July 14, 2001		Bergamo Lions	Ancona Dolphnis	30:24		Bolzano	Europa stadium
XXII	June 29, 2002		Bergamo Lions	Ancona Dolphnis	21:14		Bolzano	Europa stadium
Superbowl italiano (NFLI)
XXIII	July 12, 2003		Bergamo Lions	Ancona Dolphnis	45-00		Civitanova Marche	Stadio Comunale
XXIV	July 24, 2004		Bergamo Lions	Ancona Dolphnis	14:13		Scandiano	Andrea Torelli Stadium
XXV	July 23, 2005		Bergamo Lions	Bologna Warriors	42:14		Scandiano	Andrea Torelli Stadium
XXVI	July 29, 2006		Bergamo Lions	Parma panthers	24:12		Scandiano	Andrea Torelli Stadium
XXVII	July 14, 2007		Bergamo Lions	Parma panthers	055:49 1		Scandiano	Andrea Torelli Stadium
Italian Super Bowl (IFL)
2008 2	July 19, 2008		Bergamo Lions	Bolzano Giants	56:54		San Giovanni in Marignano	Campo Comunale
2009 2nd	June 27, 2009		Bolzano Giants	Marines Lazio	35:21		Cervia	Stadio Germano Todoli
2010 2	June 26, 2010		Parma panthers	Catania Elephants	56:26		Sesto San Giovanni	Breda Stadium
2011 2	0July 9, 2011		Parma panthers	Bologna Warriors	76:62		Parma	Stadio XXV April
XXXII 3	0July 7, 2012		Parma panthers	Catania Elephants	61:43		Varese	Stadio Franco Ossola
XXXIII	0July 6, 2013		Parma panthers	Milano Seamen	51:28		Ferrara	Stadio Paolo Mazza
XXXIV	0July 6, 2014		Milano Seamen	Parma panthers	33: 30		Ferrara	Stadio Paolo Mazza
Italian Bowl (FIDAF)
XXXV	04th July 2015		Milano Seamen	Parma panthers	24:14		Milan	Velodromo Maspes-Vigorelli
XXXVI	0July 9, 2016		Rhinos Milano	Bolzano Giants	44:18		Cesena	Orogel Stadium - Dino Manuzzi
XXXVII	0July 8, 2017		Milano Seamen	Rhinos Milano	37:29		Vicenza	Stadio Romeo Menti
XXXVIII	07th July 2018		Milano Seamen	Bolzano Giants	28:14		Parma	Sergio Lanfranchi Stadium
XXXIX	06th July 2019		Milano Seamen	Firenze Guelfi	62:28		Sesto San Giovanni	Breda Stadium

¹ Victory after extra time

²The count was not continued in 2008 because the NFLI hosted the Superbowl italiano XXVIII , but this was not regarded as an official national championship. In some lists, the finals from 2008 to 2011 are numbered with the Roman numerals I to IV. However, numbers never appeared in the logos of the event.

³ In 2012, the count continued from 2007, taking into account the finals between 2008 and 2012.

Ranking of teams

space	team	title	Participation
1	Bergamo Lions	12	13
2	Legnano Frogs 1	6th	11
3	Milano Seamen	5	8th
4th	Rhinos Milano	5	7th
5	Parma panthers	4th	8th
6th	Phoenix Bologna 2	3	3
7th	Giants Bolzano	1	6th
	Warriors Bologna	1	6th
9	Pharaones Milano	1	1
	Bologna Doves	1	1
11	Ancona Dolphnis	0	4th
12	Gladiatori Roma	0	3

¹ One title as Busto Arsizio Frogs and two appearances as Gallarate Frogs

² A title as Phoenix San Lazzaro

See also

• Italian Football League

Web links

• Enciclopedia del football - Italia , Italian

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italian Bowl - Superbowl Italiano. In: superbowl.it. Retrieved April 19, 2017 (Italian). 
2. ↑ 1981 Associazione Italiana Football Americano. (PDF; 294 kB) In: Enciclopedia del football italiano. Retrieved April 19, 2017 (Italian). 
3. ↑ 1982 Associazione Italiana Football Americano. (PDF; 696 kB) In: Enciclopedia del football italiano. Retrieved April 19, 2017 (Italian). 
4. ^ ^{A b} Enciclopedia del Football Italiano - Italia. In: Enciclopedia del football italiano. Retrieved April 20, 2017 (Italian). 
5. ↑ 2008 National Football League Italy. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: Enciclopedia del football italiano. Retrieved April 24, 2017 (Italian). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} 2008 Italian Football League. (PDF; 765 kB) In: Enciclopedia del football italiano. Retrieved April 24, 2017 (Italian). 
7. ↑ 2012 Italian Football League. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: Enciclopedia del football italiano. Retrieved April 24, 2017 (Italian).