AFLG to kick off with a French Flavour

Feb 21 2006

The draw from the AFLG of 2006 has been released with a few changes. Firstly the Düsseldorf Lions have expanded and will now play under the name Rheinland Lions.

And in some exciting news a French team will compete alongside the other 5 German teams in the AFLG with Strasbourg joining the competition. This is will know doubt help the game in both Germany and France, for the Germans it means that no team will have to have a bye every couple of weeks so therefore their standard of play will increase and hopefully lead to more players being recruited and in the end a stong league and national team. For the French it is that start of something great, you could compare this to what happened in Denmark and Sweden. When the DAFL was set up there was just the one Swedish team and they struggled for numbers but now Sweden have their own league and have a number of new teams being founded each year.

All in all it is great news from both Germany and France and will hopefully lead to a strong presence of football in Europe.

Also in Germany a training camp will take place in March, the Fulda Training Camp in which all of the AFLG teams will attend for a weekend training and workshops together. The camp was a great success in 2005 and the main aim is to foster communication between the AFLG clubs exchange training tips and methods.

The 2006 camp will also feature umpire courses as the foundation of future AFLG umpire organisation.

Redbacks Receive Honour

Mar 3 2005

As part of the Frankfurt Night of Sports celebrations last Friday the Frankfurt Redbacks Premiership Team of 2004 received the Medal of Honour for outstanding sport performances of the City of Frankfurt.

During the ceremony at Frankfurts Jahrhunderhalle more than 350 athlets were honoured, who during 2003 or 2004 became German champions or took par in Olympic Games, Euro, or World Cups.

Frankfurt Crowned Champions of Germany

Aug 7 2004

The Frankfurt Redbacks convincingly won the 2004 Australian Football League Germany Grand Final. After defeated the Düsseldorf Lions in the Preliminary Final (5 goals,7 behinds, 37 points to 1 goal,4 behinds, 10 points), the Frankfurt Redbacks secured a position in the Grand Final game against the Munich Kangaroos.

The Australian Ambassador to Germany, Ms. Pamela Fayle started the game with the coin toss.

Although the Frankfurt Redbacks already had played one game, they won each quarter against Munich with the end score of (7 goals,9 behinds, 51 points to 3 goals,7 behinds, 25 points).

The Grand Final Trophey "The OWE" was presented by its creater, Australian Artist Andreas Tesch, during the evening ceremony.

Julian Kann from Munich won the prize for "most goals" during the 2004 AFLG season. Steve Powell from the Berlin Crocodiles and Craig Robertson won the Brownlow Medal for the 2004 AFLG season. The Man of the Match for the Grand Final was Nils Warnecker from Frankfurt.

In the other game of the day, the match for the wooden spoon, the Berlin Crocodiles defeated the Hamburg Dockers (7 goals,7 behinds, 49 points to 3 goal,4 behinds, 22 points) letting the Dockers to take home the wooden spoon for 2004.

Demo match in front of 25,000

May 23 2004

On Saturday night Frankfurt and Hamburg played in front of 25.000 American Football fans of Frankfurt Galaxy. The three-minute demonstration match was part of the pre-match entertainment at Frankfurt´s Waldstadium. Even though it was only a brief exhibition it is a magnificent forward for the AFLG and Australian Football in Germany.

All Stars to strong for Germany

Apr 22 2004

The German national team made a promissing effort on Saturday, playing against an all Australian AFLG All Stars squad. Apart from the second quarter, when several unnecessary mistakes resulted in five un-answered goals for the AllStars. The final score resulted in the All Stars running out 51 point winners 11.9.(75) to 3.6.(24). The next time the German national team take the field will be in Cologne for the 2004 Central European Championships from July 10-11.

Germany to host 2004 Central European Championships

Apr 20 2004

Germany will host this years Central European Championships from July 10-11 in Cologne.

So far there are confirmed attendance from:

Austria

Belgium

France

Germany

Spain

Other CEAFL fledgling nations have been invited already with one response so far from the Czech Republic - they shall confirm their participation and/or level of involvement (sending a national team or just a few individuals etc.) in the near future.

Denmark, Britain and Ireland will be invited to send either their national team or an ad-hoc national team with no restrictions on player origin. This may take the form of a league organised rep team or perhaps just a club coming down to play as that nation for the championships. Equally, individuals from these areas are invited to come down and take part by bolstering numbers of participating countries It was important to get the CEAFL nations to agree on a suitable date and location before involving other countries.

Spain are the title holders after they defeated Germany in the final last year which took place in Madrid.