Austrian Football League


The Austrian Football League is the elite league of American football in Austria. The league was founded in 1984 and plays by the rules of the NCAA.

History

The AFL was founded in 1984 by the teams Salzburg Lions, Graz Giants and Vienna Ramblocks.
The AFL is commonly considered as one of the best American football leagues in Europe. Especially in the period from 2004 to 2011, when the EFL was won seven of eight times by an AFL team.
In 2010, the Prague Panthers from the Czech Republic joined the league as first team outside of Austria. The Panthers were member of the AFL until the 2016 season. In 2016, the Ljubljana Silverhawks from Slovenia and in 2018, the Bratislava Monarchs from Slovakia entered the AFL.
The regular season consists of ten games and starts in mid March and the playoffs continue through July. The final game is called the Austrian Bowl and was held for the first time in 1984 in Salzburg, Austria.

Teams

In 2019, the AFL consisted of:

All games

By Team