Paderborn Dolphins

Paderborn Dolphins
Founded 1991
League German Football League 2
Based in Paderborn
Arena Hermann Löns Stadium
Colors Black and gold
         
President Klaus Hecker
Head coach Matthias Gehrke
Championships none
Division titles none
Website www.paderborn-dolphins.de

The Paderborn Dolphins are an American football team from Paderborn, Germany.

The club's greatest success has been promotion, in 1997, to the American football Bundesliga, now the German Football League, where it played for two seasons until 1999.[1]

History

The Dolphins entered league football in 1992 when they joined the tier-four Verbandsliga. The club spent two seasons at this level before earning promotion to the Regionalliga, where it played until 1995. After promotion from the Regionalliga to the 2nd Bundesliga the Dolphins finished sixth in the league in 1996 before winning its division in 1997. In the promotion round the club defeated Bundesliga foundation club Berlin Adler, ending the latter's nineteen-season stint in the league since 1979.[1]

In the Bundesliga the Dolphins' sole victory in the 1998 season came away at the Stuttgart Scorpions in an interconference match but the club defended its league place in the relegation round against 2. Bundesliga club Berlin Rebels. The season after, playing as AFC Paderborn, the club's results were stricken from the table after it found itself unable to complete its fixtures and was consequently relegated.[1]

The club, again as the Dolphins, returned to the tier-three Regionalliga from 2000 onwards, playing the next three seasons at that level. At the end of the 2002 season it withdrew from league football and restarted again in the Verbandsliga in 2004. Two unbeaten seasons in 2004 and 2005 took the team back to the Regionalliga, where it played for the next nine seasons from 2006 to 2014. It won league championships at this level in 2008 and 2014, remaining unbeaten on both occasions. In 2008 it missed out on promotion when it lost to the Hildesheim Invaders in the promotion round but, in 2014, a draw against the Osnabrück Tigers followed by victory over the Potsdam Royals took the club back to the second tier after a fourteen-year absence.[1]

In 2015, the team finished third in the German Football League 2, the former 2nd Bundesliga.[1]

Honours

Recent seasons

Recent seasons of the club:[1][2][3]

Year Division Finish Points Pct. Games W D L PF PA Postseason
2014 Regionalliga West 1st 20–0 1.000 10 10 0 0 392 99 Drew PR: Osnabrück Tigers (56–56)
Won PR: Potsdam Royals (38–15)
2015 GFL 2 (North) 3rd 16–12 0.571 14 8 0 6 455 322 —
2016
  • RR = Relegation round
  • PR = Promotion round
  • QF = Quarter finals
  • SF = Semi finals
  • GB = German Bowl

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Football History (in German) Historic American football tables from Germany, accessed: 23 September 2015
  2. ↑ GFL 2 tables & results football-aktuell.de, accessed: 23 September 2015
  3. ↑ 3. Liga (Regionalliga) tables & results football-aktuell.de, accessed: 23 September 2015
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