The Kiel Baltic Hurricanes are an American football team based in Kiel , Germany .
77-647: The club has been a strong force in the sport in Germany, playing in five consecutive German Bowls from 2008 to 2012, losing the first two, winning the third, and losing the fourth and fifth. The club is part of the American Sports Club Kiel e.V. Founded in 1988, the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes first took part in competitive football in 1989, when they entered the tier-four Landesliga Nord . The club had some quick success, reaching
154-767: A 30-game season in the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two (14th tier on the English pyramid), losing all their matches after the majority of their players and manager left. In 2016, Grêmio Barueri lost all 19 matches of the Campeonato Paulista Série A3 , the third level of the São Paulo state championship. After the disastrous season, the Antigua and Grêmio Barueri teams folded. In
231-495: A German Bowl at the time. In 2012, the club once more won its division, only losing one game during the regular season away at Düsseldorf Panther, and reaching the German Bowl again against Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, losing 53–56 in the championship game and topping the previous year's score. In 2013, the team came in on third place and was knocked out in the semi-finals of the playoffs by Braunschweig. The club participated in
308-624: A German Bowl, while a further four clubs have reached the German Bowl once but lost their sole appearance ( Stuttgart Scorpions , Badener Greifs , Marburg Mercenaries and Frankfurt Universe ). The most-played match up in the history of the game is the Braunschweig Lions versus the Hamburg Blue Devils , having been played six times, last in 2005. The matchup between the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns and
385-483: A combined 0–21–2 from 1922 to 1925, but played only partial NFL schedules in those years (0–4–1, 0–4, 0–7 and 0–6–1, respectively). They also had another winless season in 1911 going 0–1–3 in the New York Pro Football League . One honorable mention is the 1980 New Orleans Saints . The team lost their first 14 games and finished with a 1–15 record. Their only win was in week 15 when they won by
462-466: A handful of teams have completed their respective seasons without winning a game. In the 2010–11 Serbian SuperLiga , FK Čukarički Stankom played an entire season winless, drawing five matches and losing 25 in a 30-game season, giving them only 5 points and finishing bottom in a field of 16. The team also only scored ten goals whilst conceding 65. In the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group , which
539-469: A huge schedule, it is practically impossible for a team to finish with a winless season. The sabermetric baseball statistic Wins Above Replacement is calculated on the premise that even a team consisting entirely of replacement-level players , (i.e., a player that could be "replaced" by a call-up from the minor leagues without any significant statistical difference) is expected to win a baseline minimum number of games (typically 40–50, depending primarily on
616-465: A loss. No team has ever come close to losing every game in an NHL season; the worst record is by the 1974–75 Washington Capitals who went 8–67–5 (8 wins, 67 losses, 5 ties). The 1974–75 Capitals and 1992–93 Ottawa Senators hold the record for fewest wins on the road with one. The NHL played an 80-game season in 1974–75, whereas in 1992–93 the schedule consisted of 84 games, thus giving the Senators
693-594: A season below the Mendoza line (.200) in win percentage for a minimum of 120 games; the others were the 1889 Louisville Colonels (.196), and the 1890 Pittsburgh Alleghenys (.169), whose best players had jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers of the newly formed Player's League. Since the establishment of the American League in 1901, the teams to have come closest to a perfectly winless season are
770-574: A season of 3 to 4 games per team plus a 4 to 8 team playoff. The Los Angeles Reign lost all ten games it played during the league's (and team's) three-year existence. Seasons in the National Lacrosse League and its predecessors Major Indoor Lacrosse League and Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League have varied from eight games in the first years of competition to eighteen games today, with the extension having been gradual. The Charlotte Cobras , who played only one season before folding, are
847-433: A season with no victories or draws. Two of them were in their nation's top tier, with Maccabi Nes Tziona losing all 24 matches of the 1949–50 Israeli League , and Gibraltar Phoenix losing all 14 matches in the 2013–14 Gibraltar Premier Division . In lower divisions, Antigua Barracuda lost all 26 matches of the third-tier 2013 USL Pro season , while in the 2015–16 season, English non-league team Longford A.F.C. , played
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#1732775378257924-718: A single point in an entire season; all played eight games or less. The 1938 Clintonville Four Wheel Drive Truckers failed to score a point in a nine-game season but managed two 0–0 ties. There are at least twelve teams who have accumulated losing streaks of 20 games or more; there are also four teams who have accumulated seasons of all losses with at least 13 games. In the case of minor professional football, particularly in indoor football leagues, winless seasons often result from an owner's abandonment or other financial hardship. The American Indoor Football Association had at least one winless team in five out of six seasons. The National Indoor Football League went its first three seasons without
1001-479: A single point. The second team to replicate this feat was the 2016 Cleveland Browns , who, as mentioned above, went winless the following season. The previously shorter length of seasons in arena football made imperfect seasons quite possible. The following teams went through an Arena Football League or a National Arena League season without winning a game: In 2001, the Columbus Wardogs of AF2 ,
1078-612: A wild-card round was introduced as well, taking the number of teams in the play-offs to twelve. The 1987 German Bowl saw two completely new teams compete against each other, the Badener Greifs making their only appearance in the championship game to date, while the Berlin Adler won their first of what would be six national championships by 2010. In 1988, Red Barons Cologne defeated the Düsseldorf Panther in
1155-747: A winless season, but beginning in 2004, at least one team went winless every year until the league's collapse in 2007. Though the Spring Football League had two teams with winless seasons (the Los Angeles Dragons and the Miami Tropics ), and the Stars Football League had one such team (the traveling 2011 Michigan Coyotes), they are almost never mentioned in discussions of perfect and perfectly bad seasons, since those teams only played two games each before
1232-456: A winning percentage of 0.106. This broke the record held by the 1972–73 Philadelphia 76ers , who had a winning percentage of .110 in a full 82-game season. The 1947–48 Providence Steamrollers won an all-time NBA low of six games out of 48 (.125 winning percentage). The 1953–54 Baltimore Bullets went 0–20 on the road. More recently, the 1990–91 Sacramento Kings managed a near-imperfect road season, winning only one of 41 away games. Overall,
1309-480: Is contested by the two best teams of the German Football League . The New Yorker Lions , from Braunschweig , are the record winners of the German Bowl, with 12 successful participations out of 18 overall. The Düsseldorf Panther and the Berlin Adler both have six titles to their name, but Berlin has the best win–loss record of all clubs, 75 percent. Altogether, as of 2021, twelve clubs have won
1386-541: Is possible for multiple teams to go winless (or also, for that matter, to go undefeated in the regular season). This was common in the NFL's early years as scheduling was not standardized and teams entered and left the league regularly. Since 1935, multiple simultaneous winless seasons has only happened once, in 1944 when both Brooklyn and Card-Pitt finished 0–10 in a season where rosters had been decimated (and parity disrupted) by wartime enlistments. The Rochester Jeffersons went
1463-445: Is shorter, with teams playing up to 40 games, divided into non-conference play, conference play (both regular season), conference tournaments, and postseason tournaments. Starting in 2020, Division I teams can either play 29 or 31 regular season games, with conference play ranging from 14 to 20 games. Better performing teams play more games by qualifying to conference and postseason tournaments. Only six teams are known to have completed
1540-600: Is the top tier of association football in the European country, three teams have all played a season without winning, with those being Torpedo Ruse (four draws out of 22 matches during 1951 ), Rakovski Ruse (one draw out of 30 matches during 1996/97 ) and Chernomorets Burgas Sofia (also one draw out of 30 matches during 2006/07 ). Chernomorets were however the worse performing out of these, conceding 131 goals with only eight in reply (the same number scored as Rakovski Ruse in their winless season), they still however completed
1617-501: The 1967–68 season , the National Basketball Association's standard regular season schedule has been 82 games long (except the 1998–99 , 2011–12 , 2019–20 , and 2020–21 seasons were shortened, though all were at least 50 games). The 2011–12 Charlotte Bobcats hold the record for the lowest winning percentage of any team in an NBA season, winning only 7 out of 66 games in a lockout-shortened season, for
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#17327753782571694-537: The 1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha , the highest division of Ukrainian football championship, FC Zirka Kirovohrad tied 9 matches and lost 21 out of 30. In the 2016 Thai Division 2 League Eastern Region , the third highest division of Thai football pyramid. TA Benchamarachuthit F.C. drew 5 matches and lost 17 out of 22 matches. In the 2017–18 Scottish Championship , the second highest division of Scottish Football, Brechin City drew 4 matches and lost 32 out of 36 matches. In
1771-624: The 2017–18 Gibraltar Premier Division , the highest division in Gilbraltar football championship, Manchester 62 drew 7 games and lost 20 out of 27. In the 2018 Úrvalsdeild , the highest division in Icelandic football championship, Knattspyrnudeild Keflavík drew 4 games and lost 18 out of 22. In the 2018–19 Football Superleague of Kosovo , the highest division in Kosovar football championship, KEK drew 1 game and lost 32 out of 33. In
1848-614: The 2018 edition when another Frankfurt based team - Frankfurt Universe - did what had only been achieved before by the long since defunct Frankfurter Löwen - reaching a German Bowl against another GFL South representative - The Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns . Between the end of the golden era of the Ansbach Grizzlies in 1986 and the rise of the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns (who first reached the German Bowl in 2011), southern clubs have only made five appearances in
1925-689: The 2018–19 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio , the football championship in San Marino, Virtus drew 2 games and lost 17 out of 19. In the 2019–20 Slovenian PrvaLiga , the highest division in Slovenian football , Rudar Velenje drew 12 games and lost 24 out of 36, conceding a last-minute equaliser away to NK Bravo on the final day of the season. In the 2022-23 Cymru Premier the highest division in Welsh football, Airbus UK Broughton drew 2 games and lost 30 out of 32 games, ending in -4 points after
2002-669: The 2020 season , also abbreviated by COVID-19, Chaos LC went 0–4 in the regular season, but won two games in the league's Championship Series (i.e., playoffs) before losing in the final to Whipsnakes LC . In the other major professional sports leagues of North America it is virtually impossible that a team could lose all its games, for the simple reason that there are many more games in the regular season than in football or lacrosse. The Major League Soccer schedule has consisted of between 26 and 34 games. No team in Major League Soccer has ever come close to losing all its games:
2079-474: The 2022–23 Scottish Women's Premier League , Glasgow Women F.C. lost all 32 of their games. In the 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League (3rd tier on the Ukrainian pyramid), FC Veres Rivne lost all 14 out of 22 scheduled games before being expelled from the league due to failure of payment of league dues; in addition, they failed to score a single goal at home. In top-level domestic league football however,
2156-645: The Braunschweig Lions , who made their last of twelve consecutive German Bowl appearances, ending an unprecedented run of the latter club. (To date no other club has managed more than 9 participations in total - a number achieved by the Düsseldorf Panthers and Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns) Kiel came second in 2009, on equal points with the Berlin Adler. The two teams met in the German Bowl, but unlike 2008, when Kiel had defeated Berlin in
2233-510: The COVID-19 pandemic . During the existence of the MLL, two teams recorded winless seasons—the 2006 Chicago Machine , who went 0–12 and lost an MLL record 13 consecutive games, and by the 2020 New York Lizards , who went 0–5 in the shortened season. PLL has never had a team record a completely winless season since its formation in 2019 ; only one team has recorded a winless regular season. During
2310-516: The Grey Cup . There was also far more disparity between teams in early Canadian football leagues. Also unlike the NFL, the CFL has always awarded "points" in the standings that, in effect, have always counted ties as "half-wins" so a team with only ties and losses in the standings has never been regarded as having an imperfect season. The National Pro Grid League , which operated from 2014 to 2016, has
2387-716: The Hartford Colonials . Under the UFL's double round robin format, only one team could finish any particular season entirely with losses, since every team played each other at least twice. The 1991 inaugural season of the World League of American Football saw the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks fold after losing all ten of their regular-season games. The following year, the WLAF replaced that franchise with
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2464-874: The Hildesheim Invaders as well as the Elmshorn Fighting Pirates led to those teams withdrawing without a replacement, thus the GFL North had only six instead of the "normal" eight teams that year). The club's appearances in the German Bowl: Recent seasons of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes: German Bowl The German Bowl is the annual national championship game in the sport of American football in Germany . It
2541-602: The Munich Cowboys in the quarter-finals and the Düsseldorf Panther in the semi-finals of the play-offs and advanced to the German Bowl again where they met the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns . The 33rd edition was the highest scoring German Bowl so far, ending with a 48–44 victory for the Unicorns, who thereby ended an 18-year title drought for the south. It was also the highest score achieved by any team losing
2618-683: The Ohio Glory who almost met the same fate but managed one win in their lone season. Since non-professional, semi-professional, and minor league teams are inherently unstable in their membership, it is far easier for seasons in which a team wins no games to occur. In the case of non-professional teams, neither mechanisms to force a team to shut down against its will, nor effective drafts or revenue sharing mechanisms to distribute talent evenly among teams typically exist, leading to poor teams accumulating multiple winless seasons. Four teams in football history have both lost all their games and failed to score
2695-917: The Philadelphia Athletics in 1916 (36–117), the Boston Braves in 1935 (38–115), the New York Mets in their 1962 inaugural season (40–120), the Detroit Tigers in 2003 (43–119), the Baltimore Orioles in 2018 (47–115), the Detroit Tigers in 2019 (47–114), the Oakland Athletics in 2023 (50–112), and the Chicago White Sox in 2024 (41–121). Compared to the NBA, the college basketball season
2772-622: The Toronto Triumph , did not win a game in either of their competing seasons in 2011 and 2012. The Princeton Tigers sprint football squad, a team consisting of players under 172 pounds, sustained 16 consecutive winless seasons before Princeton University shut the team down in 2015, citing safety concerns in allowing players to play on a team so heavily outmatched. Since 1986, the Canadian Football League 's regular season spans eighteen games; from 1952 to 1985 it
2849-475: The WNBA bubble season . The record was previously tied at 3 wins by the 1998 Washington Mystics in their first season, and the 2011 Tulsa Shock . Two other expansion WNBA teams, the 2008 Atlanta Dream at 4–30 and the 2006 Chicago Sky at 5–29, have come close to this record. The Atlantic City Seagulls of the (now defunct) summertime, minor league USBL finished the 2001 season with an 0–28 record. It
2926-492: The 2003 Hamilton Tiger-Cats who went 1-17; however, there have been three other seasons in which a team won a single game under shorter standard regular season schedules since 1958) – the last imperfect season in either of the CFL's antecedent leagues was in 1949. Imperfect seasons were common in the Canadian football during the first half of the twentieth century when fewer games were played and more leagues were challenging for
3003-570: The 2013 title went to a resurgent and renamed Braunschweig, now playing as the New Yorker Lions in a close 35–34 victory against the Dresden Monarchs in their first German Bowl appearance. Dresden missed an extra-point attempt after their first touchdown and went on to lose on a late fumble, the only turnover of the game, while driving towards good field position for a field goal. The Lions won their ninth German Bowl in 2014 with
3080-657: The 2014 European Football League and won the inaugural EFL Bowl when it defeated the Badalona Dracs 40–0 in the final. In the GFL the club came fourth in the northern division in 2014 but lost 24–50 to the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in the quarterfinals of the playoffs. In 2015, the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes competed in the EFL tournament and defended their title in the final against the Allgäu Comets . The team finished third in
3157-734: The 2020 season, it would be the 2021 which would show whether Kiel's on field product had much improved. While the 'canes won an upset victory at home against the New Yorker Lions and also defeated the Berlin Rebels on the Moorteichwiese, those were their only wins in a season they finished fifth out of six teams in the North with a record of 2-8-0 (The failed negotiations between the European League of Football and
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3234-482: The Ansbach Grizzlies continued to be an outstanding team, playing in all of the first eight German Bowls. Unlike the first season, play-off semi-finals were played in 1980 and 1981 to determine the two German Bowl contestants. From 1982, the play-offs were enlarged to include a quarter-final round as well. The 1982 season saw Ansbach repeat its title, this time against the Cologne Crocodiles . After that,
3311-607: The Bowl. Instead, the Cologne Crocodiles finally reversed their fortunes and won a championship in their sixth attempt. In between, in 1999, the Bundesliga was renamed to German Football League. Braunschweig lost a fifth final in a row in 2004, when the Berlin Adler won their first title in 13 years. After that, the Braunschweig Lions set a new record, winning four German Bowls in a row, beating four different teams in
3388-566: The Düsseldorf Panther once more won the German Bowl, with the second title won against a new force in the game in Germany, the Hamburg Blue Devils . In 1996, the Blue Devils then reversed their previous misfortune and defeated the Panthers in the final. The most dominant era of any team in the sport in Germany begun in 1997, when the Braunschweig Lions reached and won the German Bowl for the first time. The Lions would play in every one of
3465-420: The German Bowl differs hugely between the clubs from the northern and the southern division, with the south only winning ten German Bowls and the north the remaining 32 (through XLII). Similarly (through XLII), southern clubs have only made 26 appearances in the Bowl, while northern clubs have appeared 58 times. After the first three German Bowls, the final was only contested by two southern clubs one other time; in
3542-680: The German Bowl were: Winless season A winless season is a regular season in which a sports team fails to win any of its games. The antithesis of a perfect season , winless seasons have been suffered twelve times in professional American football , six times in arena football , three times in professional Canadian football , once each in American professional lacrosse and box lacrosse , more than twenty-five times in major Australian football leagues, over twenty times in top-level rugby league , at least twice in top-level rugby union , and twice in English county cricket . Because of
3619-570: The Kings lost 43 consecutive road games before beating the Orlando Magic 95–93 on November 23, 1991. Since its formation in 1997, the WNBA regular season has been gradually increased from 30 to the current 40-game schedule to be used starting in 2023. No team has gone through a WNBA season without winning a game; the fewest wins in a WNBA season has been 2 by the 2020 New York Liberty during
3696-421: The NBA, consists of 82 games. Since the 2004–05 lockout , teams receive two points for a win, one point for a loss in overtime or a shootout , and zero points for a loss in regulation time. From 1997 until 2004, teams received two points for a win, one point for a tie or overtime loss, and zero points for a regulation loss. Prior to 1997, teams received two points for a win, one point for a tie, and no points for
3773-419: The New Yorker Lions has occurred five times - all in the span from 2014 to 2019. German Bowl XIX to German Bowl XXX (inclusive) all had appearances by the Braunschweig Lions (later to be renamed for sponsorship reasons to "New Yorker Lions") for twelve consecutive appearances over the space of over a decade. Apart from the German Bowl, a Junior Bowl has also been contested in Germany since 1982. A Ladies Bowl
3850-615: The caliber of the team's division) per 162-game season. The closest to a perfectly winless season in the National League was the infamous 1899 Cleveland Spiders season , who finished with a record of 20-134 after its roster was looted by the owners of the team, who then stacked the best players onto the St. Louis Perfectos . With a win percentage of .130, the Spiders are (as of 2020) the last of three major league teams to have finished
3927-414: The championship game of which only one was successful (the Munich Cowboys in 1993). After first reaching the German Bowl in 2011, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns made all (as of 2021) subsequent German Bowls except the 2013 edition where they were upset by the Berlin Adler in the quarterfinal of the playoffs. As the 2018 German Bowl was an all Southern affair, balancing out the all Northern German Bowl 2013,
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#17327753782574004-429: The championship themselves, against Cologne Crocodiles, who suffered their fourth defeat in their fourth German Bowl. Munich's title in 1993 was to be the last occasion for the next twelve years that a team from the South would reach the final, and the last time until 2011 that a team from the South would win the championship. The Bundesliga and the German Bowl were from then on dominated by the North. In 1994 and 1995,
4081-433: The divisions have achieved parity in representation at the final for the period beginning in 2011. However, in terms of wins the North still has the edge even for the 2011-2019 period as Schwäbisch Hall won it all four times in that decade whereas Braunschweig's New Yorker Lions won the Bowl five times in the same period. The German Bowls since 1979: Champions in bold * indicates overtime wins The host cities of
4158-404: The era of the Düsseldorf Panther versus Ansbach Grizzlies rivalry began, with the two teams meeting in the next four finals. Of those, the team from Düsseldorf won the 1983, 1984 and 1986 editions, while the Grizzlies earned their third championship in 1985. With the 1986 final, the golden age of the Ansbach Grizzlies ended and the club disappeared from the top level altogether by 1991. From 1986,
4235-399: The final, while, from 1989 onwards, the Berlin Adler became the first team to win three championships in a row, all against teams from Cologne . After the 1990 season, the play-offs were reduced to eight teams again, dropping the wild-card round, a system still in place as of 2010. The Panther earned their fourth title in 1992, defeating the Munich Cowboys, which, in the following year, won
4312-419: The finals. In 2005, the Blue Devils were once more the opposition, followed by two southern teams, the Marburg Mercenaries in 2006 and the Stuttgart Scorpions in 2007. The seventh title for the Lions came in 2008, against the new force of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes . Kiel also played in the 2009 final, losing to the Berlin Adler, before finally being successful in 2010 and securing their first title against
4389-438: The highest-ever winning margin, defeating the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns 47–9. Schwäbisch Hall scored no points in this game after a field goal on their first possession until the fourth quarter when most of the Braunschweig starters, including MVP quarterback Casey Therriault, were already off the field. The Lions repeated their 2014 success against the Unicorns in 2015, winning 41–31. Success in American football in Germany and at
4466-467: The minor league of the AFL, made history becoming the first American football team to go 0–16. The United Football League had one winless season. In their inaugural season, the 2009 New York Sentinels lost all six of their games. The team, which was a traveling team that played games in Hartford, Long Island and New Jersey (and had intended to play a game in New York City but backed out), fired its head coach and settled permanently in Hartford to become
4543-403: The most losses in a MLS season is 24 from 32 games by the Kansas City Wizards, now known as Sporting Kansas City , in 1999 , the year when the league used shootouts to decide all tied games. Shootouts were abandoned the following season. In 2013 , D.C. United set new MLS records in futility. United won a league-low 3 games, and lost a record 24 games, tying the aforementioned Wizards. Since
4620-450: The next twelve German Bowls until 2008, and win seven of those. Their first title, in 1997, was won against the Cologne Crocodiles, who now had the unenviable record of five losses in five German Bowl appearances. The following six seasons, the final was contested by the Lions and the Blue Devils on five occasions, with the Lions winning in 1998 and 1999, while the Blue Devils won in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Only in 2000 did neither of those two win
4697-460: The northern division of the GFL and lost to the Allgäu Comets in the quarter-finals of the playoffs. Despite missing the EFL Bowl in 2016, the Hurricanes GFL season was more successful than the previous years'. The team again finished third in the northern division of the GFL, thus securing a playoff spot for the tenth year in a row. With a huge defensive effort the Canes won the first round (quarterfinal) against Frankfurt Universe 10–3 and advanced to
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#17327753782574774-405: The only team in the history of the NLL to have not won a game in a season. In their sole 1996 season they played 12 games and lost them all, before folding. In Major League Lacrosse , the season consisted of either 12 or 14 games from the league's formation in 2001 through the 2019 season . The 2020 season , the last before MLL merged into the Premier Lacrosse League , was abbreviated due to
4851-422: The percentage record for worst road record. The Senators also set a record by losing their first 38 consecutive road games (the Senators' road statistics include a neutral site game played in Hamilton, Ontario , in which the Senators were considered the road team). Since the early 1960s, the schedule of both leagues of Major League Baseball has been 162 games long, and before that it was 154 games long. With such
4928-448: The playoffs, placing sixth with a losing 4-9-1 record. 2019 was an even worse year on the field as the team finished seventh, only two and a half games ahead of the Düsseldorf Panther who were relegated after a winless season . Their only wins on the season came against Düsseldorf and their sole draw was against the Potsdam Royals at home, who finished one spot ahead of them. As the COVID-19 pandemic delayed and ultimately cancelled
5005-563: The relatively small number of games played in college and professional football seasons, there is a possibility that a particularly inept team will not manage to win any games. Before overtime games in the regular season was instituted, teams might tie a game without winning a game; these are still counted in lists of winless seasons. This is because, during eras before overtime was introduced to American football, leagues generally ignored tied games when calculating winning percentage. Because NFL teams do not all play one another each season, it
5082-419: The same team. German Bowl XXXIII was held on 8 October 2011 at the MDCC-Arena in Magdeburg . The 2011 season saw the end of an 18-year title drought for the south, when the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns defeated Kiel 48–44 to carry off the national championship for the first time. The Unicorns repeated their 2011 title in 2012 in the highest-scoring German Bowl to date winning 56–53 on a late field goal, while
5159-454: The season with a minus 2 points total, because they violated a rule concerning not being able to field enough youth players. In the 1946–47 Allsvenskan with 22 games played, Billingsfors IK tied 3 games and lost 19, the only team in Swedish football history never to win even one single Allsvenskan game in a season. In the 1998–99 Alpha Ethniki , the football championship in Greece, Ethnikos Piraeus drew 8 games and lost 26 out of 34. In
5236-420: The seasons were cut short. AF2 was the minor league of the Arena Football League . In 2001, the Columbus Wardogs made history becoming the first American football team to finish a season 0–16. The Legends Football League (originally Lingerie Football League), whose seasons are only three to four games long for each team, has had eight teams with perfectly bad seasons in three years of play. One such team,
5313-457: The semi-finals, this time the club from the German capital triumphed. In 2010, Kiel once more topped its division and advanced to the German Bowl, once more against the Berlin Adler. This time, the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes proved the stronger and managed to win their first national German title. Their head coach during that time was NFL Europe alumn and former Hamburg Blue Devils player Patrick Esume . Kiel won its division again in 2011, defeated
5390-427: The semifinal for the first time since 2013. Here, they lost 21–38 to the New Yorker Lions. The 2017 season ended with a second place finish in the GFL North (behind Braunschweig but ahead of Dresden, who had placed ahead of them every previous season since 2013) but they again lost the semifinal to the eventual champion, this time the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns. In 2018 their fortunes waned and they failed to qualify for
5467-404: The tier-two 2nd Bundesliga Nord by 1993. After back-to-back championships in this league, the Hurricanes played in the 1st Bundesliga Nord from 1996. This league would eventually become the German Football League . The Hurricanes reached the play-offs from 1997 to 2000, making it to the semi-finals once, in 1999, but were relegated in 2002. The 2002 relegation round against the Dresden Monarchs
5544-473: The top two teams would contest the first ever German Bowl on 10 November 1979. The early years of the league were dominated by two teams, Frankfurt and Ansbach, who met each other in the first three editions of the German Bowl. Of those, Frankfurt won the first two and Ansbach the last. The era of the Frankfurter Löwen came to an end soon afterwards and the club went defunct in the mid-1980s, while
5621-427: The two teams play each other. Restarting in the tier-three Regionalliga Nordost , the club quickly recovered, playing in the GFL once more from 2007 onwards, now with much greater success. The club came third in its division in 2007 and was knocked-out in the play-off quarter finals, but managed to win its division the following year. The Hurricanes managed to reach their first German Bowl that season, but lost to
5698-542: Was a particularly lopsided and humiliating affair as Kiel was shut out both at home and on the road by a combined score of 100-0. The second leg, Dresden's home game remains the best attended American football match ever played in Dresden. Dresden, the first team from former East Germany to reach the top tier in German American football, has remained a GFL1 member since and enjoys a fierce rivalry with Kiel whenever
5775-468: Was generally sixteen games like the NFL from 1978 to 2020, though those teams in what is now the Eastern Division played only fourteen as late as 1973. Also, the CFL did not adopt interdivisional regular season play until the early 1960s. There have been no imperfect seasons since the CFL was officially founded in 1958 (the closest any CFL team has come to a winless season since its formation are
5852-739: Was introduced in 1990. Other, related, national championship games in Germany include the German Flag Bowl (est. 2000), German Junior Flag Bowl (1999) and a German Indoor Flag Bowl (2000). In 1979, the American Football Bundesliga , later to be renamed the German Football League, was formed, consisting of six clubs, the Frankfurter Löwen, Ansbach Grizzlies , Düsseldorf Panther , Munich Cowboys , Berlin Bears and Bremerhaven Seahawks . Of those six,
5929-515: Was quite a turnaround for the franchise, as they were dominant in the USBL just a few years earlier; the Seagulls were USBL runners-up in 1996, then swept to three straight titles in 1997–99. In 2000, the Seagulls slipped to 12–18, fourth place, and were beaten in the first round of the playoffs; after their winless 2001 campaign, the Seagulls folded. The National Hockey League's schedule, like that of
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