Rheinland Lions defeat inaccurate Berlin Crocs to win 2011 AFLG Premiership

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Rheinland Lions defeat inaccurate Berlin Crocs to win 2011 AFLG Premiership

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Thursday, September 29 2011 @ 10:55 am ACST

AFAIK the German national league is 16-a-side.

For a place like Germany, with clubs spread across a fairly large area, I think the two-tiered approach is the way to go - ideally each club has a regional league (probably 9-a-side) then the national league is 16-a-side.

There's a new club (Leverkusen Wombats) being formed just outside Cologne (home of the Rheinland Lions). If I were them, I'm not sure whether I'd want to enter the AFLG as a stand-alone club, or first negotiate with the Lions create a Rhein-Ruhr area metro league and start out there. But then again, if the Lions are as strong as they are, maybe it's time for two Rhein clubs in the national league.

The Bayernliga (Munich Roos' metro league) was set up with the possibility of the Nürnberg Eagles joining them first, before entering the AFLG as a stand-alone club in future, but I don't think the Eagles are looking likely to happen anytime soon.

Rheinland Lions defeat inaccurate Berlin Crocs to win 2011 AFLG Premiership

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Thursday, September 29 2011 @ 10:00 pm ACST

Thanks Aaron.

It seems we have our game being played with any number of players-a-side from 18 down to 4 or five-a-side.

Ireland has 14-a-side along with the Texas AFL and Orange County Bombers league(tho it could be 12-a-side)(seen it written as both).

Denmark and Germany have 16-a-side with 9's as "local leagues".

The South China League and the Italian League have 12-a-side whilst the Bejiing and Shanghai Leagues operate as 9-a-side.

It seems Timor Leste play 11-a-side. and the Czech League run a10-a-side comp.

9-a-side is played all over and even now is starting in Australia, and the guys out at Krasnoyarsk in Russia played a series of matches with 4 or 5 guys-a-team.

And I think I saw that the Italian Ladies League was played with 6-a-side this year.

Just goes to show if you are passionate enough about the game then it doesn't really matter how many players are in the side as long as you get a game.

I'm compiling a bit of a compendium of international footy, have just about found every league, club/team currently playing footy, and am now trying to determine how many players-a-side each competition is played with. Some are obvious eg. Metro Footy in USA, and many competitions do state the number but there are quite few that we sort of assume is played with the full 18-a-side but probably aren't.

Cam

Rheinland Lions defeat inaccurate Berlin Crocs to win 2011 AFLG Premiership

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, September 30 2011 @ 11:16 am ACST

Yeah, adaptability is key. Rare to find fields outside Australia that are big enough for 18-a-side, regardless of whether you have enough players.

Actually, now I think about it, I seem to remember the AFLG being 14-a-side minimum, but teams could play with more if both sides had enough and agreed to do so. That might have been a different league though.

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