Winterthur Red Lions
The Winterthur Red Lions (also FFC Red Lions ) are a Swiss flag football team from Winterthur . You play in the National Flag Football League organized by the Swiss American Football Association and were Swiss champions in 2015.
history
The club was founded by four football players from SC Veltheim , who came across Flag Football through their interest in American football . Later they started with 5-on-5 training sessions in Eulachpark and were able to compete with the flag football team of the Winterthur Warriors . In 2013 the Winterthur Red Lions were founded. In their first season they were able to qualify as a surprise team and runner-up in the group for a wildcard game at the play-offs, which they also won. In their second season they were able to finish the group stage as first place, even before last year's champions St. Gallen Vipers , but lost to the same in the play-offs semi-finals with 52:58. In the third season it finally worked after a 47:39 victory in the final against the ASVZ Mockingbirds with the Swiss championship title for Winterthur. As Swiss champions, they could then also take part in the European Champions Bowl, but only managed to reach 11th place out of 12. In the next season they reached the play-offs final again, but could not beat the Zurich Renegades there . In 2017, the team was eliminated in the play-offs quarter-finals against the ASVZ Mockingbirds.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Till Hirsekorn: They steal flags, from Zurich to Copenhagen . In: The Landbote . August 24, 2016, p. 6 ( landbote.ch ).
- ↑ Marcel Fehr: preliminary report for the final tournament 2013 - farewell and hope. (No longer available online.) Swiss American Football Association , September 16, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 25, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marcel Fehr: Tournament 6 - Seriousness begins now. (No longer available online.) Swiss American Football Association , September 9, 2013, archived from the original on January 26, 2018 ; accessed on January 25, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marcel Fehr: Tournament 6 - Qualification conclusion. (No longer available online.) Swiss American Football Association , September 9, 2014, archived from the original on January 26, 2018 ; accessed on January 25, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marcel Fehr: Final tournament - and the marmot greets every day ... (No longer available online.) Swiss American Football Association , 23 September 2014, archived from the original on 19 January 2018 ; accessed on January 25, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Facebook entry from September 5, 2015. In: Facebook . Winterthur Red Lions, September 5, 2015, accessed January 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Jonathon Boroski: Zurich Renegades are NFFL champions 2016. (No longer available online.) Swiss American Football Association , September 28, 2016, archived from the original on January 19, 2018 ; accessed on January 19, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Valérie Durussel: Who will be 2017 NFFL Champion? (No longer available online.) Swiss American Football Association , September 24, 2017, archived from the original on January 26, 2018 ; accessed on January 26, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
