2016 German Football League
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The 2016 German Football League season was the 38th edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany and seventeenth since the renaming of the American Football Bundesliga to German Football league.
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2016 German Football League | |
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League | German Football League |
Sport | American football |
Duration | 16 April–8 October 2016 |
Number of teams | 16 |
Promoted to GFL | Cologne CrocodilesIngolstadt Dukes |
Relegated to GFL 2 | Düsseldorf PantherRhein-Neckar Bandits |
Regular season | |
GFL North champions | New Yorker Lions |
GFL North runners-up | Dresden Monarchs |
GFL South champions | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns |
GFL South runners-up | Frankfurt Universe |
German Bowl XXXVIII | |
Champions | New Yorker Lions |
Runners-up | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns |
GFL seasons | |
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The regular season started on 16 April and finished on 10 September 2016, followed by the play-offs. The season culminated in the German Bowl XXXVIII, held on 8 October 2016 in Berlin. The championship was won by the New Yorker Lions who defeated the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns 31–20 in a repeat of the 2014 and 2015 finals, which the Lions had also won.[1]