ELAF 1993

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
Continental Conference
Hamburg Blue Devils	3	3	0	0	89	62	1.000
Cologne Crocodiles	1	0	1	0	21	31	.000
Munich Cowboys	1	–	–	–	–	–	–
Manchester Euro Spartans	3	0	2	0	41	58	.000
UK Conference
EuroSteelers	2	2	0	0	46	20	1.000
EuroRaiders	2	1	1	0	36	36	.500
EuroMonarchs	2	1	1	0	46	52	.500
EuroBears	2	0	2	0	36	56	.000

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
26.09.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	41	Euro Spartans	0
26.09.1993	Cologne Crocodiles	36	Munich Cowboys	42 (2ot)
	3rd Place		Venue: Hamburg
02.10.1993	Cologne Crocodiles		Euro Spartans
	Final		Venue: Hamburg
02.10.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	53	Munich Cowboys	30

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
24.10.1993	EuroSteelers	L	EuroBears	W
24.10.1993	EuroRaiders	W	EuroMonarchs	L
	Final
31.10.1993	EuroBears	14	EuroRaiders	12

FLE 1994

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
Northern Conference
*Stockholm Nordic Vikings	10	9	1	0	465	228	.900
*Hamburg Blue Devils	10	7	3	0	339	264	.700
Berlin Bears	10	2	8	0	278	466	.200
Helsinki Roosters	9	1	8	0	163	245	.111
Central Conference
*Munich Thunder	9	7	2	0	253	210	.778
*Amsterdam Crusaders	10	6	4	0	295	280	.600
Great Britain Spartans	9	4	5	0	240	262	.444
Frankfurt Gamblers	9	2	7	0	196	284	.222

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
27.08.94	Munich Thunder	26	Hamburg Blue Devils	29
03.09.94	Stockholm Nordic Vikings	34	Amsterdam Crusaders	21
	Euro Super Bowl I
17.09.94	Hamburg Blue Devils	35	Stockholm Nordic Vikings	43

AFLE 1995

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
*Bergamo Lions	8	7	1	0	232	178	.875
*Stockholm Nordic Vikings	8	5	3	0	239	223	.625
Amsterdam Crusaders	8	5	3	0	78	90	.625
Frankfurt Knights	8	3	5	0	124	140	.375
Sheffield GB Spartans	8	0	8	0	175	235	.000
Bavarian Blue Falcons	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Euro-SuperBowl II
02.09.1995	Stockholm Nordic Vikings	14	Bergamo Lions	0

Report

The American Football League of Europe was a Professional American Football League that played under three different names over three seasons, filling in the gap between the demise of the World League of American Football, which played two seasons from 1991 to 1992 with seven teams in North America and three in Europe, and the WLAF’s revival as a Europe-only League in 1995.

The World League of American Football had been a Spring Development League in the United Statesof America, Canada and three countries in Europe, started by the National Football League as a much-needed development league, and also presumably to prevent a recurrence in the 1990s of another American Football League of the 1960s, World Football League of the 1970s and United States Football League of the 1980s.

The first season of the European League (ELAF) was played as two separate conferences, with a limited 1-3 games schedule per team. All four teams in each Conference (UK and Continental) reached the Conference Finals Tournament (won by Hamburg Blue Devils and EuroBears). The UK Conference was made up of four teams started by Terry Smith of the Manchester Spartans, all of which were named after NFL teams which the prefix Euro- added to avoid confusion. One was named the EuroMonarchs after the WLAF team in London.

The League became a full scheduled League in 1994, named the Football League of Europe, again with two conferences of four teams, Northern and Central, won by the Stockholm Nordic Vikings and Munich Thunder. The Nordic Vikings defeated the Hamburg Blue Devils 43-35 in the EuroSuperBowl.

The League renamed itself the American Football League of Europe in 1995, but suffered from the restart of the WLAF as a Europe-only league by the NFL. Only five teams started the season that year with the Munich team, Bavarian Blue Falcons dropping out just before the scheduled start. Playing in one conference of five, the EuroSuperBowl II was won again by the Stockholm Nordic Vikings 14-0 over the Bergamo Lions of Italy.

References

Newspapers

[1] Berry, Lee (1993) “Spartans Humbled in Hamburg” First Down. May 15, 1993. pg. 17

[2] (1993) “Happy Campers” First Down. August 14, 1993. pg. 20

[3] Berry, Lee (1993) “Germans Get Away with Blue Murder” First Down. August 28, 1993. pg. 18.

[4] Berry, Lee (1993) “Spartans humble” First Down. October 2, 1993. pg. ??.

Internet Archive

[5] Hamburg Blue Devils Fansite| Wayback Machine (2000) Die Hamburg Blue Devils 1992-2000 {internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012165353/http://devils.de/ [Accessed 13 June 2020]

[6] Cologne Crocodiles (2020) Seniors Saison 1993 [Internet] Available from: https://cologne-crocodiles.de/seniors-saison-1993/ [Accessed 13 June 2020]

Newspapers

[7] Berry, Lee (1993) “They said it couldn’t be done” First Down. October 16, 1993. pg. 20

[8] Berry, Lee (1993) “Nuttall mints it with Raiders” First Down. October 16, 1993. pg. 20.

[9] Berry, Lee (1993) “Semi-Conscience” First Down. October 23, 1993. pg. 20.

[10] Berry, Lee (1993) “Near-Miss!” First Down. November 6, 1993. pg. 21.

Internet Archive

[11] Hamburg Blue Devils | Wayback Machine (1999) Devils History 1993 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012165353/http://devils.de/ +[Accessed 13 June 2020]

[12] Cologne Crocodiles (2020) Seniors Saison 1993 [Internet] Available from: https://cologne-crocodiles.de/seniors-saison-1993/ [Accessed 14 June 2020]

[13] Football-History (2020) GFL 1993 [Internet] Available from: http://www.football-history.de/?fbclid=IwAR2E2J86wMTRYljCjLjwKPjOJOzZHRXsNAo8sSrwuvh5UtckiLU_QLSTQGU [Accessed 14 June 2020]

Websites

[14] Google Groups – rec.sport.football.misc (1994) Message by Ludwig Alberter – 5 September 1994 [Internet] Available from: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.football.misc/oNVilaWhNSY [Accessed 21 August 2018]

[15] Google Groups – rec.sport.football.misc (1994) Message by Dominik Kubla – 5 November 1994 [Internet] Available from: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.football.misc/BRx_xxVsAoY [Accessed 21 August 2018]

Sources

[16] FD Reporter (1995) “Terry Launches Second Coming” First Down, May 20, 1995, P. 18.

[17] Rowlands, Neil (1995) “It’s back to the good old Haze!” First Down, May 27, 1995, P. 22.

[18] Anon. (1995) “I’ll give any unhappy fans money back” First Down, June 10, 1995, P. 18.

[19] Myatt, Steve (1995) “Sedin Death!” First Down, June 17, 1995, P. 21.

[20] Myatt, Steve (1995) “Defensive Disaster sees Spartans crumble to 0-5” First Down, July 15, 1995, P. 18.

[21] Anon. (1995) “We can bounce back, says Tel” First Down, July 1, 1995, P. 18.

[22] FD Reporter (1995) “Sitting on the dock of a bay” First Down, August 5, 1995, P. 19.

Online Encyclopedia

[23] Enciclopedia del Football Italiano (2019) American Football League Europe 1995 [Internet] Available from: http://www.warriorsbologna.it/public/Enciclopedia/PDF/1995_afle_eur.pdf [Accessed 4 December 2019]

News Groups

[24] Google Groups | rec.sport.football.misc (1995) [FLE] Schedule of 1995 Season | Post by Domink Kubla 27 May 1995 [Internet] Available from: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.football.misc/6Y8ECEnsSi0 [Accessed 8 August 2018]

[25] Google Groups | rec.sport.football.misc (1995) [FLE] Latest News and first result | Post by Domink Kubla 2 June 1995 [Internet] Available from: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.football.misc/j1J9u7pcYPo [Accessed 8 August 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ralph Schmeer (Irish American Football Officials Association)

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