Plattling Black Hawks
{{Infobox sports team
| team = Plattling Black Hawks
| logo = Plattling Black Hawks.png
| pixels = 150px
| founded = 1986
| league = Bayernliga
| history =
| arena = Deggendorf Black Hawks (1986–2004) {{Clear}} Plattling Black Hawks (2004–present)
| ballpark =
| stadium = Karl Weinberger Stadion
| colors = Beige and Black {{Clear}} {{Color box|Beige}} {{Color box|Black}}
| president =
| coach = Mario Filakovic
| manager = Philipp Ullmann
| championships = none
| titles = none
| cheerleaders = Black Merlins
| dancers =
| mascot =
| broadcasters =
| media =
| website = [http://www.black-hawks-football.de/ www.black-hawks-football.de/]
| uniforms =
}}
The Plattling Black Hawks are an American football team from Plattling, Germany. The club was, until 2004, known as the Deggendorf Black Hawks.
The club's greatest success was earning a promotion to the German Football League in 2008 and qualifying for playoffs for the first time in 2010.
History
The Black Hawks entered league football in 1987, when they joined the southern division of the Regionalliga Bayern. The following 19 seasons, the club remained in local Bavarian and Southern German leagues, becoming a fixture in the tier-three Regionalliga Süd from 2001 onwards.
In 2004, the Deggendorf Black Hawks moved nine kilometres southwest, becoming the Plattling Black Hawks instead.
Under the new name, the club quickly experienced unprecedented success, winning its league and defeating the Obertshausen Blizzards to earn a promotion to the southern division of the 2nd Bundesliga. Plattling spent the next three seasons at this level, successfully competing with the top teams and eventually winning the league in 2008. The team defeated the Darmstadt Diamonds in the following two promotion games and earned a spot in the German Football League (GFL) for 2009.
In the GFL in 2009, the Black Hawks managed to finish in fifth place, one above the relegation rank and Bavarian rival, the Munich Cowboys. The following season saw the team come third despite a losing record and qualifying for the play-offs. In the quarter-finals, the Berlin Adler were, however, too strong and the club was knocked out courtesy to a 3–17 defeat.
Plattling was unable to fulfil all its fixtures in the 2011 season, suffering from a large number of injuries, losing all games except for the last three, which it cancelled.[http://www.afvd.de/text.php?Inhalt=newsmeldung&ID=6777 Information Status Plattling Black Hawks] {{in lang|de}} AFVD website, published: 25 August 2011, accessed: 3 September 2011[http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.stuttgart-scorpions-letztes-heimspiel-der-saison-faellt-aus.7ebe1085-9416-4399-8238-e5b5aaea2465.html Letztes Heimspiel der Saison fällt aus] {{in lang|de}} Stuttgarter Zeitung, published: 2 September 2011, accessed: 3 September 2011 The club decided on 1 September 2011 not to apply for a GFL2 licence for the following season but instead to compete in the third tier Regionalliga.[http://www.gfl.info/text.php?Inhalt=newsmeldung&ID=6808&HP=GFL Situation Plattling Black Hawks] {{in lang|de}} GFL website, published: 5 September 2011, accessed: 6 September 2011
In the Regionalliga the club's troubles continued in 2012, finishing last and losing all ten season games, dropping down another level, now to the Bayernliga. The 2013 season saw the club recover and win seven out of eight regular season games but then lose 2–0 to Königsbrunn Ants in the Bayernliga play-offs. In the 2014 season the club did not win a game in its Bayernliga division and finished last. It came last once more in 2015 but this time recorded one win and seven losses.
Honours
Recent seasons
Recent seasons of the club:[http://www.football-history.de/ Football History] {{in lang|de}} Historic American football tables from Germany, accessed: 19 January 2010[http://www.football-aktuell.de/cgi-bin/aschedule.pl?rubrik=5010&jahr=2008 GFL 2008] www.football-aktuell.de, accessed: 2 January 2011[http://www.football-aktuell.de/cgi-bin/aschedule.pl?rubrik=5010&jahr=2009 GFL 2009] www.football-aktuell.de, accessed: 2 January 2011[http://www.football-aktuell.de/cgi-bin/aschedule.pl?rubrik=5010&jahr=2010 GFL 2010] www.football-aktuell.de, accessed: 2 January 2011[http://www.football-aktuell.de/cgi-bin/schedule.pl?rubrik=5010 GFL 2011] www.football-aktuell.de, accessed: 18 September 2011
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| style="background:#DFDFDF; font-weight:bold;"
| Year | Division | Finish
| Points | Pct.
| Games | W | D | L
| PF | PA
| Postseason |
| 2005
| 1st | 24–0 | 1.000
| 12 | 12 | 0 | 0
| 527 | 117
|style="text-align:left;"| Won PR: Obertshausen Blizzards (26–14 & 40–14) | ||
| 2006
|rowspan="3"| GFL 2 (South) | 3rd | 18–10 | 0.643
| 14 | 9 | 0 | 5
| 363 | 296
| — | ||
| 2007
| 3rd | 16–12 | 0.571
| 14 | 8 | 0 | 6
| 412 | 317
| — | ||
| 2008
| 1st | 25–3 | 0.893
| 14 | 12 | 1 | 1
| 556 | 180
|style="text-align:left;"| Won PR: Darmstadt Diamonds (43–33 & 44–36) | ||
| 2009
| rowspan=3 |GFL (South) | 5th | 6–18 | 0.250
| 12 | 3 | 0 | 9
| 369 | 491
| — | ||
| 2010
| 3rd | 11–13 | 0.458
| 12 | 5 | 1 | 6
| 294 | 242
|style="text-align:left;"| Lost QF: Berlin Adler (3–17) | ||
| 2011
| 7th | 0–22 | 0.000
| 11 | 0 | 0 | 11
| 157 | 521
| — | ||
| 2012
| Regionalliga Süd | 6th | 0–20 | 0.000
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 10
| 75 | 398
| — | ||
| 2013
| Bayernliga (Central) | 1st | 14–2 | 0.875
| 8 | 7 | 0 | 1
| 208 | 118
|style="text-align:left;"| Lost SF: Königsbrunn Ants (0–2) | ||
| 2014
|rowspan="2"| Bayernliga (South) | 6th | 0–20 | 0.000
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 10
| 80 | 374
| — | ||
| 2015
| 5th | 2–14 | 0.125
| 8 | 1 | 0 | 7
| 100 | 315
| — |
- RR = Relegation round
- PR = Promotion round
- QF = Quarter finals
- SF = Semi finals
- GB = German Bowl
- Final three games of the 2011 season not played.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{in lang|de}} [http://www.black-hawks-football.de/ Official website]
- {{in lang|de}} [http://www.gfl.info/ German Football League official website]
- {{in lang|de}} [http://www.football-history.de/ Football History] Historic American football tables from Germany
{{Former German Football League clubs}}
Category:American football teams in Germany
Category:German Football League teams
Category:American football teams established in 1986
Category:American football in Bavaria
Category:1986 establishments in West Germany