World Bowl

The World Bowl was the American football - final of the NFL Europe (NFLE) that set the gaming operations in June of 2007. It was considered the European counterpart to the Super Bowl of the National Football League (NFL).

The name comes from the first season (1991) of the previous league World League of American Football (WLAF), in which teams from several continents were still represented or were planned for later.

The first World Bowl was played in 1991 in the previously selected Wembley Stadium in London . The native London Monarchs qualified for and won the game and the World Bowl- trophy , a 18.6 kg heavy globe of glass . In 1992 Montreal was designated as the venue. The home team could not qualify this time, so fans of the participating US teams had to travel a long way.

After the NFLE was restricted to European teams in 1995 and renamed the National Football League Europe in 1998 , the name World Bowl was retained. The home stadium of the best-placed team in the first half of the season has now been chosen as the venue. This was also the host, even if the second half of the season was less successful. From 1998 the allocation was regulated differently again.

After 2005, the World Bowl 2006 was held for the first time in consecutive years at the same location, in the Düsseldorf LTU arena . Since 2002, four out of five finals have taken place in the home stadium of the Rhein Fire , which had to move in the meantime due to construction work.

As a competitor to the NFL there was a World Football League in 1974 and 1975 , the only final of which on December 5, 1974 was also called the World Bowl . The Birmingham Americans beat the Florida Blazers 22:21.

The World Bowls were designated with the year until 2000, and only then, like the Super Bowl , were officially numbered with Roman numerals. The official name from 2005 to 2007 was Yello Strom World Bowl .

The Yello Strom World Bowl XV took place on June 23, 2007 in the Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena , the home stadium of the Frankfurt Galaxy . The Hamburg Sea Devils prevailed against the Frankfurt Galaxy with 37:28 and won the last World Bowl in their first finals.

Results

Edition	Date year	winner	loser	Result	place	Stadion
1991 (I)	June 9, 1991	London monarchs	Barcelona Dragons	21: 0	London	Wembley Stadium
1992 (II)	June 6, 1992	Sacramento Surge	Orlando Thunder	21:17	Montreal	Olympic Stadium
1993	No WLAF / NFLE games and therefore no World Bowl
1994	No WLAF / NFLE games and therefore no World Bowl
1995 (III)	June 17, 1995	Frankfurt Galaxy	Amsterdam admirals	26:22	Amsterdam	Olympic Stadium
1996 (IV)	June 23, 1996	Scottish Claymores	Frankfurt Galaxy	32:27	Edinburgh	Murrayfield
1997 (V)	June 22, 1997	Barcelona Dragons	Rhine Fire	38:24	Barcelona	Olympic Stadium
1998 (VI)	June 14, 1998	Rhine Fire	Frankfurt Galaxy	34:10	Frankfurt	Forest stadium
1999 (VII)	June 27, 1999	Frankfurt Galaxy	Barcelona Dragons	38:24	Dusseldorf	Rheinstadion
2000 (VIII)	June 25, 2000	Rhine Fire	Scottish Claymores	13:10	Frankfurt	Forest stadium
2001 IX	June 30, 2001	Berlin Thunder	Barcelona Dragons	24:17	Amsterdam	Amsterdam arena
2002 X	June 22, 2002	Berlin Thunder	Rhine Fire	26:20	Dusseldorf	Rheinstadion
2003 XI	June 14, 2003	Frankfurt Galaxy	Rhine Fire	35:16	Glasgow	Hampden Park
2004 XII	June 12, 2004	Berlin Thunder	Frankfurt Galaxy	30:24	Gelsenkirchen	Arena AufSchalke
2005 XIII	June 11, 2005	Amsterdam admirals	Berlin Thunder	27:21	Dusseldorf	LTU arena
2006 XIV	May 27, 2006	Frankfurt Galaxy	Amsterdam admirals	22: 7	Dusseldorf	LTU arena
2007 XV	June 23, 2007	Hamburg Sea Devils	Frankfurt Galaxy	37:28	Frankfurt	Commerzbank Arena

See also

• Eurobowl , the final of the European Football League (EFL) that has been held since 1986