The Holzgerlingen Twister are an American football team from Holzgerlingen , Germany .
9-535: The club's greatest success has been promotion to the German Football League 2 in 2009 and 2013, where it played for five seasons until 2015. The Holzgerlingen Twister entered league football in 1998, joining the tier five Verbandsliga. After a championship in a season without defeat Holzgerlingen moved up to the Oberliga where it played for the next six seasons until 2004. A runners-up finish took
18-523: Is the second tier of American football in Germany, below the German Football League . Until 2007, the league was known as the 2. Bundesliga . The GFL2 , formerly the 2. Bundesliga , which was formed in 1982, is divided into a northern and southern division, with eight teams in each division. Unlike the GFL, there are no inter conference games and no GFL2 champion is determined. For the 2011 season, both
27-520: The Regionalliga to the GFL2. However, additional spots may become available if teams resign from either the GFL or the GFL2. Promotion to the GFL2 is achieved through a promotion round at the end of the Regionalliga season which includes the best Regionalliga teams. For the southern division of the GFL2 the champions of the southern, southwestern and central division and for the northern GFL2 division
36-413: The champions of the Regionalliga divisions north, west and east play each other once to determine the two promoted teams. The league was formed as the 2nd American Football Bundesliga in 1982, consisting of 16 clubs in three regional divisions. League strength varied from season to season after this, but the three division format was retained until 1986, when a fourth regional group was added. In 1995,
45-446: The club drew six-all in the first leg before overcoming Ingolstadt 24–23 in the return leg and thereby earning another promotion. Back in the GFL2 it finished fifth in 2014 and sixth in 2015, on both occasions avoiding the relegation ranks. At the end of the 2015 season however the club opted to withdraw back to the Regionalliga for 2016. Recent seasons of the club: German Football League 2 The German Football League 2 (GFL2)
54-563: The club up to the Regionalliga Mitte but it was relegated back to the Oberliga after just two seasons. Two Oberliga seasons followed in which the second one produced another league championship and a return to the Regionalliga for 2009. The club finished runners-up in the league in 2009 and, through an aggregate victory over the Kirchdorf Wildcats in the promotion round, moved up to the German Football League 2 for
63-529: The first time. Holzgerlingen played at the second tier of the German league system for the next three seasons with a third place in 2011 as its best result. The season after the club was however relegated back to the Regionalliga. The 2013 season saw the team come second in the Regionalliga again and once more enter the promotion round to the GFL2. Facing the Regionalliga Süd champions Ingolstadt Dukes
72-409: The league was reduced to two divisions with seven clubs each. The strength was increased to eight teams per division in 1998 but continued to fluctuate because of teams withdrawing. Promotion to the GFL2 is achieved through the promotion round of the best Regionalliga clubs whereby the champions from the south plays the runners-up from central division and the champions from central the runners-up from
81-489: The northern and the southern champions were promoted, while the runners-up of the two divisions played the last placed team in the GFL division above for another spot in the league in 2012. Since then the two division champions play a home-and-away series for a place each in the northern and southern division of the GFL. Below the GFL2, six Regionalligas , Regional Leagues , are set, North, South, West, Central, East and Southwest. Four teams each are promoted each season from
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