NFL Europa

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The NFL Europa was a European American football league that ran from 1991 to 2007 under the control of the National Football League. It started off as the World League of American Football and had 3 teams in Europe, 6 in the USA and one in Canada. After 2 years the league was put on hold, so there were no 1993 or 1994 seasons. The league came back in 1995 as a purely European league, with the 3 original European teams plus 3 new ones. In 1998 the name of the league was changed to NFL Europe and then in 2007 it became NFL Europa. After the 2007 season, the NFL ceased operations of the league. This was a developmental league of the NFL. The Berlin Thunder were the league's best team, winning 42 games and 3 World Bowls

Past World Bowl Games[change | change source]

Year Venue Winner Score Runner-Up MVP
June 23 2007 World Bowl XV Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Hamburg Sea Devils 37 - 28 Frankfurt Galaxy Casey Bramlet
Sea Devils, QB
May 27 2006 World Bowl XIV LTU arena, Düsseldorf, Germany Frankfurt Galaxy 22 - 7 Amsterdam Admirals Butchie Wallace
Galaxy, RB
June 11, 2005 World Bowl XIII LTU arena, Düsseldorf, Germany Amsterdam Admirals 27 - 21 Berlin Thunder Kurt Kittner
Admirals, QB
June 12, 2004 World Bowl XII Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Berlin Thunder 30 - 24 Frankfurt Galaxy Eric McCoo
Thunder, RB
June 14, 2003 World Bowl XI Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland Frankfurt Galaxy 35 - 16 Rhein Fire Jonas Lewis
Galaxy, RB
June 22, 2002 World Bowl X Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany Berlin Thunder 26 - 20 Rhein Fire Dane Looker
Thunder, WR
June 30, 2001 World Bowl IX Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands Berlin Thunder 24 - 17 Barcelona Dragons Jonathan Quinn
Thunder, QB
June 25, 2000 World Bowl VIII Waldstadion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Rhein Fire 13 - 10 Scottish Claymores Aaron Stecker
Claymores, RB
June 27, 1999 World Bowl VII Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany Frankfurt Galaxy 38 - 24 Barcelona Dragons Andy McCullough
Galaxy, WR
June 14, 1998 World Bowl VI Waldstadion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Rhein Fire 34 - 10 Frankfurt Galaxy Jim Arellanes
Fire, QB
June 22, 1997 World Bowl V Estadi Olimpic, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona Dragons 38 - 24 Rhein Fire Jon Kitna
Dragons, QB
June 23, 1996 World Bowl IV Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland Scottish Claymores 32 - 27 Frankfurt Galaxy Yo Murphy
Claymores, WR
June 17, 1995 World Bowl III Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands Frankfurt Galaxy 26 - 22 Amsterdam Admirals Paul Justin
Galaxy, QB
1994 Not Played
1993
June 6, 1992 World Bowl II Stade Olympique, Montreal, Canada Sacramento Surge (USA) 21 - 17 Orlando Thunder (USA) David Archer
Surge, QB
June 6, 1991 World Bowl I Wembley Stadium, London, England London Monarchs 21 - 0 Barcelona Dragons Dan Crossman
Monarchs, Safety
  • Note: Roman Numerals were not officially used by NFL Europa until World Bowl IX. Prior to 2001, the games were billed as World Bowl 2000, World Bowl '99 etc.