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15-545: Hungarian teams formed and began playing in the 1990's when the Budapest Cowboys and Budapest Lions played in lower level division leagues outside of Hungary. The Hungarian American Football League (MAFL) began in 2005 under the guidance of the Hungarian Federation of American Football (MAFSZ) with 4 teams ( Budapest Wolves , Győr Sharks , Debrecen Gladiators , Nagykanizsa Demos . The game rules are

30-789: A fall season but only 3 teams were willing to participate, so in 2011, the Hungarian Bowl was canceled. In 2012, the HFL finally started, and this year the Budapest Wolves suffered their first-ever defeat against a Hungarian team (against Budapest Hurricanes ), but in the final, the Wolves defeated the Hurricanes. However, in 2013, the Hurricanes, in 2014 the Újbuda Rebels , and in 2015 the Bratislava Monarchs defeated

45-593: The 3rd Division in 2009, and they won it without losing a single game. In 2010, they joined the 1st Division and in 2012 the Hungarian Football League. The Rebels participated in the IFAF CEI Interleague in 2013. In December 2013 the two clubs joined. In 2014 in the HFL they participated as Rebels, in the IFAF CEI Interleague they participated as Cowboys. In this year they won the Hungarian Football League and finished runners-up in

60-692: The Cowbells won the trophy, being technically the 7th team to win the HFL, but as they are the successor of Újbuda Rebels, they are the first team to win 2 HFL trophies. The Hungarian Bowl is the Championship Game of the Hungarian American Football League. Between 2005 and 2010 it was the final of the MAFL Division I. In 2011, the new top-tier championship HFL was postponed, no Hungarian Bowl took place, and

75-707: The Fall Bowl was an unofficial championship. Since 2012, the Hungarian Bowl has been the final of the Hungarian Football League. The Pannon Bowl is the MAFSZ's second-tier championship game that was first played in 2007. The Duna Bowl is the third-tier championship game of the MAFSZ. In 2006, the MAFSZ created the Blue Bowl, the national cup game. HFL teams Division I teams Division II teams Budapest Cowboys The Budapest Cowbells are an American football team from Budapest , Hungary . The team

90-624: The IFAF CEI Interleague in 2011 and 2012. In 2004 North Pest Vipers have been established. In 2006 some of the Vipers joined the Cowboys, and in 2008 the management decided to join the Budapest Titans . Most of the players decided not to join the Titans but to continue alone, so they founded a new team under the name Újbuda Rebels . As they were technically a new team, they had to start in

105-587: The Interleague. In December they merged the names of the teams. In 2016, they finished as runners-up in the HFL losing against Miskolc Steelers, and they re-joined to the CEFL. In 2017 they won the HFL by defeating the Steelers. Budapest Wolves The Budapest Wolves are an American football team from Budapest , Hungary . After establishing in 2004, in just few years the Wolves have become one of

120-535: The Wolves in the Hungarian Bowl. The 2015 season was the only one when a foreign team participated, and with the Monarchs' win, the official Hungarian champion was the HFL runners-up Wolves. In 2016, the Miskolc Steelers became the first non-capital city team in HFL history to participate in the finals, and they won the trophy as well, becoming the 6th team to win HFL in the 6 years' HFL history. In 2017,

135-814: The best organized and most successful American football teams in Hungary. Today, the Wolves are competing in the Hungarian Football League . The Budapest Wolves were formed in 2004 by the name of Budapest American Football Club. Founder manager was Attila Árpa  [ hu ] , who played in the club until 2009 regularly. The Wolves became one of the most successful American football teams in Hungary, have been undefeated between 2004 and 2012 under head coach Lee Hlavka, and are 7-times Hungarian Bowl champions and 8-times Hungarian champions. The Wolves also participated in Austrian lower divisions and in

150-702: The club stopped working. In 2004 with the establishment of the Budapest Wolves Hungarian American football went alive. Some old Cowboys joined the new team, some started to train again, and in 2006 the Budapest Cowboys have been re-established. In 2007, they won the 2nd Division, and in 2008 they finished as runners-up in the Hungarian Bowl. In 2008 and 2009 they participated in the Central European Football League . The Cowboys participated in

165-686: The other Hungarian club Budapest Lions. That year they went undefeated in the Austrian Football League Third Division, losing only to the Vienna Vikings II (second team) from the second division (third tier) in the League Championship. In 1994 they changed their name into Budapest Cowboys. Due to their routing of third division teams the year prior they were moved up to the second division (third tier) where they again went undefeated during

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180-568: The regular season. They won most games by a wide margin, but lost in the League Championship game again to the second team of the Vikings; this time only by a point. The coaches rotated again before the 1995 season and played in the third tier level in Austria finishing with a losing season. As there were no other Hungarian teams they participated the Czech and lower Austrian leagues until 2000 when

195-712: The standard gridiron football (NCAA) rules. The first winner of the first Hungarian Bowl was the Wolves. In the next 2 years, the Wolves participated only in the Austrian Football League 3rd tier. These 2 years the HFL was won by the Sharks. In 2006, eight teams participated. In 2007, the championship had been split into two divisions (6 teams at Division I and 9 at Division II). In 2008, the Wolves returned, and they won 3 more championships undefeated. In 2009, 26 teams participated so Division III had been introduced (this year 5, 12, and 9 teams have been played in

210-414: The three tiers). In 2010, they returned into the 2 tier format. In 2011, MAFSZ restructured the championship format with the introduction of Hungarian Football League (HFL), which was intended to be an international competition with the top 4 Hungarian teams and 4 from abroad. Division I and Division II became the 2nd and 3rd tier competitions, which were played in the spring season. The HFL was scheduled as

225-494: Was founded in December 2013 by merger of Budapest Cowboys and Újbuda Rebels . The Cowbells are two-time champions of Hungarian Football League . The Cowboys were the first Hungarian American football team. American businessman Tom Kelly established it in 1991 as Budapest Starforce and they played the first American football match in Hungary against Munich Nightmare. In 1993, under new head coach Jeff Egan, they merged with

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