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  German Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German football League (GFL) is the elite bundesliga for American football in Germany.
The GFL is partitioned into north and south conferences, each with six teams.
In the GFL south in 2005, after cut of the Franken Knights, only five teams remain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Football_League   (192 words)

  
 Bundesliga (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In football (soccer), Bundesliga refers to the highest national league club competitions in German and Austrian football, where the German football champions and the Austrian football champions, respectively, are determined.
Until the sixties the highest leagues in Germany were the regional Upper Leagues (Oberligen).
In 1991, a year after German reunification, the German Football Federation of the GDR, the association of East Germany, merged into the DFB, the association of West Germany.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bundesliga_(football)   (2325 words)

  
 uefa.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the presence of German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the Bundesliga celebrated its 40th birthday this weekend.
The night before the German Football Association (DFB) and the Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH (DFL) held a banquet at Cologne's 'Coloneum' with 1,200 guests from the world of sport, politics, economics and the media to celebrate the league's history.
A close friend of DFB honorary president Egidius Braun, Dr Sprengers said: "The German football league is a role model in organisation, discipline, refereeing and their licensing system.
es.uefa.com /news/newsId=94072,printer.htmx   (474 words)

  
 German Football League Bayern Leverkusen
And on 1st July 1904 the foundations of a football squad were formed.
This run of good form continued into the 1990s when on the 12th June 1993 the club become the holders of the German Bundesliga Cup after beating Hertha BSC (A) 1-0 in the away play-off.
But in all five times they have been in the Champions League they have only got to the final once, which was in the 2001-2002 season.
www.britain.tv /sports_football_german_bayern_leverkusen.shtml   (543 words)

  
 BBC News | BUSINESS | Live German TV football deal agreed
The German Football League says its final two games of the season will be broadcast live on television after it reached an agreement with KirchMedia.
In a statement, the league said talks with Kirch would continue next week about the payment of the rest of a 100 million euro instalment which is due in the middle of May.
On Thursday the league threatened to cancel the right to broadcast the last stages of the season unless there was a guarantee that the money would be paid.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/business/1952947.stm   (449 words)

  
 East German football reaches new low
The German Football Association (DFB) was so concerned when Hansa Rostock, the last remaining eastern team, dropped out of the Bundesliga in May, that it held crisis talks in Leipzig.
Among young football fans in the north-eastern port of Rostock, there is complete understanding for those players who move west.
Most football chiefs agree the difficulty facing eastern clubs is the eastern economic environment.
www.isfa.com /news/?id=16115   (613 words)

  
 German Football League Borussia Dortmund
And in the seasons of 1956 and 1957 BVB were consecutive German champions with the same team.
From 1993 to 1998 saw Borussia Dortmund’s under 17 be German champions in 1993, 1996 and 1998 and the clubs under 19 team be German champions in 1994 to 1998 as well.
After the German Championship which was closely fought out between Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern Munich and Bayern Leverkusen.
www.britain.tv /sports_football_german_borussia_dortmund.shtml   (589 words)

  
 SI.com - Soccer - Germany: Kirch collapse to slash revenues - Wednesday April 16, 2003 05:00 PM
BERLIN (Reuters) -- Kaiserslautern's Mario Basler is the latest former German international to ponder a big-money move to Qatar.
The enfant terrible of German soccer quit VfL Wolfsburg this month after repeated run-ins with the club's new coach, Juergen Roeber, and said he would never play in the Bundesliga again.
German news magazine Der Spiegel listed a host of players approaching the end of their playing careers who are mulling a move there.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2003/04/16/german_rdp   (663 words)

  
 CNN.com - Anger over German soccer plan - Apr. 5, 2002
The group was due to make two payments of 100 million euros each to the league at the beginning of May and the beginning of August.
Wilfried Straub, chairman of the German Football League, said talks with the government had taken place but emphasised that this was about the state providing collateral, not subsidies.
Tom Bender, a spokesman for the German Football League (DFL), admitted rights revenue from Kirch was important to all German clubs, particularly the smaller ones, but said he was sure the existing contract would be honoured.
archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/04/05/kirch.court.soccer   (624 words)

  
 Sports in Germany Austria Switzerland - Soccer Fussball - The German Way
One out of three Germans is a member of one of the many sports clubs across Germany that offer opportunities to play soccer, handball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, and other sports...
Germans (and Europeans in general) are big Formula One fans, especially with “Schumi,” (SHOO-me) as he is affectionately known, leading the F1 pack.
German Football League - American football teams in Germany (in English); click on the team logos on the right for more info and links for each GFL team.
www.german-way.com /sport.html   (1093 words)

  
 NFL Europe.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The National Football League (NFL) and the American Football Verband Deutschland (AFVD) have announced a ground-breaking agreement aimed at expanding American football in Germany.
·Increased success of top-level football in Germany: The NFL Europe League, which has four teams based in Germany, and the German Football League, represent the two highest levels of the sport in the country.
NFL Europe League, NFL Europe shield design and the team marks and logos are registered trademarks of the National Football League and its affiliates.
www.nfleurope.com /news/story/7585726   (672 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Soccer - German league denies tax scandal report - Friday December 06, 2002 11:33 AM
But the DFL said a report in Bild that the tax administration in the German city of Muenster had launched an investigation targeting the entire Bundesliga was incorrect.
An official investigation into the four-times German champions' tax situation was launched after the first findings of a probe into alleged financial irregularities by the club's former management over the past five years was forwarded to the tax administration.
There has been speculation in the German media that Elber, who has already said he will not extend his contract beyond 2004, might leave at the end of this season, enabling his club to receive a transfer fee.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/12/06/german_rdp   (878 words)

  
 Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Former Lehigh quarterback Chad Schwenk will be taking his game overseas to Hannover, Germany in the coming months to compete in the German Football League for the Hannover Musketeers.
The Musketeers are one of two football teams in Hannover, but more and more players have been making the switch and moving up a level to play for the Musketeers.
The Musketeers play in the German Football League’s north group, which is comprised of the Berlin Adler, Braunschweig Lions, Dresden Monarchs, Dusseldorf Panthers, and the Hamburg Blue Devils.
www.lehighsports.com /release.asp?RELEASE_ID=2721   (518 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Sport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The German Football League (DFL) said in a statement that league leaders Bayern had agreed to pay 2.5 million Euros to the body ruling professional soccer in Germany and a further 500,000 Euros to charity.
The German Football League (DFL) said it would take no further action against the club, who had threatened to pull out of the Bundesliga if they did not agree to the verdict.
Though the players failed to score big breaks throughout the match, the match was decided when former national champion Joshi pocketed the fl ball in the centre pocket with both players tied on 60 points each in the ninth frame.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030413/asp/sports/story_1868834.asp   (618 words)

  
 Borussia Dortmund - PFDC : Internet's Best Hangout for Iranian Football Fans
The German football league (DFL), which runs the Bundesliga competition, said it was watching the Dortmund situation with "great concern," spokesman Tom Bender said.
The 95-year-old club, which also won three German titles before the founding of the Bundesliga in 1964, made its stock market debut in 2000 amid much fanfare and remains the only German club to be publicly listed.
Dortmund won the Champions League in 1997 and broke Bundesliga transfer records to assemble an expensive international roster meant to challenge Bayern Munich for the supremacy in German football.
www.persianfootball.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4024   (879 words)

  
 Bundesliga_(football)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Presently, at the end of every season, the bottom 3 teams of the First Bundesliga are relegated to the Second Bundesliga, and the top 3 finishers of the Second Bundesliga move into the First; for the next season.
This was, among other things, because of the fact that several Germans stars were transferred to foreign leagues and, in addition, the increasing problem of hooliganism.
Currently, the top two clubs in the table qualify automatically for the group phase of the Champions League, while the third-place team enters the Champions League at the third qualifying round (see overview).
www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Bundesliga_(football)   (2184 words)

  
 uefa.com - UEFA Champions League - News & Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The German tabloids might have had a field day when FC Bayern München were knocked out of the German Cup by SV Alemannia Aachen, but when the Bundesliga champions were ousted from the UEFA Champions League last week, there was little levity.
The German Football League (DFL) has taken steps to counter this lack of emerging German talent, with every team told to set up a youth academy in line with similar institutions in France or England in order to earn their Bundesliga licence.
Rebuilding German football from the bottom up will, of course, take time while the Bundesliga's European problems are rather more immediate.
www.uefa.com /competitions/UCL/news/Kind=8192/newsId=154501.html   (593 words)

  
 DePauw University News
November 11, 2002, Greencastle, Ind. - Jason Lee, a 2002 DePauw University graduate who was the football team's starting quarterback, says playing in the German Football League this summer was "the experience of a lifetime," but it's one he almost passed up.
But at the urging of DePauw's head football coach Nick Mourouzis, the QB relented and now says he's glad he listened to his coach.
He says the competition in the German Football League was only slightly tougher than what he faced in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, noting that in Germany,
www.depauw.edu /news/index.asp?id=375713778125   (615 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Eintracht Frankfurt avoid drop into oblivion
The German Football League (DFL) said Eintracht could stay in the second division after courts in Stuttgart and Frankfurt reversed a German Football Association (DFB) decision in June revoking their licence because the club did not meet league financial rules.
Frankfurt's Waldstadion, located just outside the German financial capital in a forest area, is being renovated for the World Cup finals in Germany in 2006 and Roth said it was important Eintracht stay in the higher leagues to underline the city's commitment to sport.
Eintracht, who were beaten 7-3 by Real Madrid at Glasgow's Hampden Park in 1960 in what many football analysts consider the greatest game of football ever, have been rocked by a series of financial scandals in recent years.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2002/0719/20020719frankfurt.html   (543 words)

  
 German American Football League - Hadisentosa.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
German coach Jurgen Klinsmann tells Amy Lawrence he is not fazed by all the criticism of his unusual methods ahead of next summer's World Cup.
With a casino, a football league, an internal postal service and its own glossy news magazine, Ruhleben may have been the most sophisticated prisoner-of-war camp in history.
The number of unemployed fell by 55,000, from 4.2 million in September to 4.15 million in October.
www.hadisentosa.com /football/German-American-Football-League.html   (120 words)

  
 Bremen jump over Stuttgart to top German league
Stuttgart's 0-0 draw with Cologne was enough for the 24-year-old to create a new mark of 825 minutes without letting a goal in, during an otherwise uneventful match.
Stuttgart dominated Cologne but their strikers, particularly the young German international Kevin Kuranyi, proved ineffective in front of goal.
Giuseppe Reina found the net in the 10th minute and Matthias Sammer's side are now lurking behind the leading pack in fifth spot, three points behind Bremen.
quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/cu/Qfbl-ger.RB3B_DO5.html   (485 words)

  
 CNN.com - German League aims for new TV deal - Jan. 2, 2004
The German Football League (DFL) has failed to agree a contract extension with current television rights holder Infront by the year-end deadline.
The league, which represents the 36 professional clubs in Germany's top two divisions, also plans to continue negotiations with Infront, the statement said.
Bundesliga clubs have suffered as revenue from TV rights dropped from a peak in 2000-01 and started this season with a combined 599 million euros of debt.
www.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/football/01/02/german.television   (254 words)

  
 Kalkar Days! - The early days, pre 1980, continued   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The quality of life a Kalkar was exceptional at the time, and whenever we were confronted with a problem we put our heads together and solved the problem.
The intent of our involvement was to teach american football to the germans.
The Elementary school, was a German elementary school before we took it over.
kalkarites.org /_forums/printthread.php?t=93   (1149 words)

  
 Germany's League Of Limping Football Teams
Worst hit are the teams that don't qualify for the UEFA Champions League or other international contests, which bring millions in TV revenue.
Under pressure to polish the sport's image before World Cup comes to 12 German cities beginning in June, 2006, the DFL is leaning on teams to clean up their finances.
The sorry financial state of pro football, which affects clubs in Spain and Italy as well, adds impetus to efforts to bring more financial discipline to the sport.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_14/b3927074_mz054.htm   (978 words)

  
 European Report: COMPETITION/SPORT: GERMAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION APPEALS TO COMMISSION OVER TV RIGHTS.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Summary:The European Commission's Competition Directorate-General has received another call from a sporting authority asking for the same exemption from competition rules, this time from the German football league.
The Commission meeting re-scheduled to February 10 is now expected to tackle football leagues that are now applying for exemption under Article 85 of the EC Treaty - on restrictive business practices - like the recently announced case of the German league, the Deutscher Fuaball-Bund (DFB).
The German football case is under scrutiny at the same time as motor racing...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:53618718&refid=ink_tptd_np   (217 words)

  
 Intix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"The deal struck between FIFA, the DFB [German Football League] and Mastercard is anti-competitive and puts football fans in the UK and around Europe at a disadvantage, as well as meaning they will incur additional and unnecessary costs, " said Phil Evans, principal policy adviser at Which?.
Fifa said it had taken "great care in ensuring that its activities are in line with European competition law".
At a later stage fans should be able to apply for tickets through national football associations.
www.intix.org /news.php?ArticleID=426   (2503 words)

  
 The South Atlantic Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
PC's Cunningham Signs with Braunschweig Lions of the German Football League
CLINTON, S.C. - Former Presbyterian College quarterback Todd Cunningham (Irmo, S.C.) has signed to play football with the Braunschweig Lions of the German American Football League announced today.
Cunningham recently finished his career at Presbyterian as one of the most decorated football players in school and conference history.
www.thesac.com /media/20620football-cunningham.htm   (308 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - German league denies Bundesliga tax scandal report
ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - German league denies Bundesliga tax scandal report
BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The German Football League (DFL) dismissed on Friday a newspaper report saying not only Kaiserslautern but the entire Bundesliga was threatened by a major tax scandal.
The club declined to comment on a report in Bild this week saying they would have to pay an estimated 20 million euros in back taxes, meaning they would probably go bust.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2002/1206/20021206bundesligatax.html   (515 words)

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