Have you ever wondered if there are football leagues in other regions like Europe? Well the answer is  yes. For instance in Austria, it`s called the Austrian Football League (AFL) and I’m going to tell you a little bit about it.

Teams in the AFL. In the AFL there are 8 teams: The Graz Giants, the Vienna Vikings, the Danube Dragons, the Swarco Tirol Raiders, the Prague Black Panthers, the Mödling Rangers, the Blue Devils and the Ljubljana Silver Hawks. As you can see,  half of the AFL consists of Austrian teams, while the remaining teams come from Poland or other Countries. The Vienna Vikings dominated the AFL in the last couple of years, but there are two teams uprising right now, the Graz Giants and the Swarco Raiders. Both teams won every game till now and it looks like it will stay like that for some time. The AFL was founded 1984 in Vienna. The first team was called the Vienna Ramblocks. They founded the first football Cup, which lead to  more and more teams joining the AFL. I think it was a great idea to found an American Football league in Austria and I’m very pleased to play with the Graz Giants.

The Graz Giants. As you already know I play with the Graz Giants (GG). The GG were founded in 1981. Their jerseys are blue and yellow. We bought two new import players from the NFL and the College Football League from America. Clint Floyd is one of them and he scored more than 5 touchdowns this year. He was also awarded  most valuable player (MVP) twice.

All in all American Football is an up-and-coming sport in Austria right now. More and more teams are joining and I’m very happy to be part of the AFL.