Ravensburg Razorbacks
{{Short description|American football team in Germany}}
{{Infobox sports team
| team = Ravensburg Razorbacks
| logo = Ravensburg Razorbacks.png
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| founded = 1987
| league = German Football League
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| stadium = Lindenhofstadion
| city = Ravensburg
| colors = White and Blue {{-}} {{Color box|White}} {{Color box|#003153}}
| president = Thomas Prüß (TSB Ravensburg)
| coach = Oliver Billstein
| manager =
| championships =
| titles = GFL2 South: 2018, 2019
| cheerleaders =
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| media =
| website = [https://ifm-razorbacks.de/ ifm-razorbacks.de]
| uniforms =
}}
The Ravensburg Razorbacks are an American football team in Ravensburg Germany. As its greatest success, the club reached the German Football League, the highest level in Germany, by having won the promotion play-off against Kirchdorf Wildcats in the postseason 2019.
History
The Ravensburg Razorbacks were formed in 1987. The team's first name was Lindenberg Razorbacks.{{Cite web| url=https://ravensburg-razorbacks.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/RedZone-Heft-03-2019.pdf| title=RedZone: Razorbacks – Magazin| access-date=6 November 2019}} It moved to Ravensburg and therefore changed the name to become part of the sports club TSB 1847 Ravensburg. In 1988, the Razorbacks started in the 4th and lowest German league level.{{Cite web| url=http://football-history.de/vierteliga/4-1988sued.htm| title=1988 4. Liga Süd| access-date=6 November 2019| language=German}}
After many not very successful years, the Razorbacks won the championship of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2009 to be promoted to the Regionalliga Mitte (third level). Three years later they won the Regionalliga Mitte and were promoted to the German Football League 2. After returning to the Regionalliga in 2015, they repeated their success and played in the 2016 season again in the GFL2. This time the rise of the team continued. After finishing 5th and 2nd they won the division title of the GFL2 South in 2018. In the subsequent play-offs the Razorbacks fell short of being promoted to the GFL against the Stuttgart Scorpions. One year later the entered again the promotion round as division winners. This time they won twice against the Kirchdorf Wildcats and thus, are qualified to compete in the German Football League in the 2020 season.
Honours
- GFL2
- Southern Division champions: 2018, 2019
Recent seasons
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| Year | Division | Finish | Points | Pct. | Games | W | D | L | PF | PA | Postseason |
| 2017 | rowspan="3"| GFL2 (South)
| 2nd | 17–7{{0}} | 0.708
| 12 | 8 | 1 | 3
| 422 | 375
| — | ||||
| 2018
| 1st | 23–5{{0}} | 0.821
| 14 | 11 | 1 | 2
| 661 | 414
|style="text-align:left"| Lost PR: Stuttgart Scorpions (34–72 & 6–48) | |||||
| 2019
| 1st | 20–4{{0}} | 0.833
| 12 | 10 | 0 | 2
| 433 | 244
|style="text-align:left"| Won PR: Kirchdorf Wildcats (40–28 & 58–34) | |||||
| 2020
|rowspan="5"| GFL (South) |colspan="10" style="background:#C0C0C0"| No season played because of the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||||||||
| 2021
| 5th | 10–10 | 0.500
| 10 | 5 | 0 | 5
| 281 | 298
| — | |||||
| 2022
| 7th | 3–17 | 0.150
| 10 | 1 | 1 | 8
| 270 | 402
| — | |||||
| 2023
| 8th | 4–20 | 0.167
| 12 | 2 | – | 10
| 209 | 375
|style="text-align:left"| RR: withdrew against Kirchdorf Wildcats | |||||
| 2024
| 2nd | 14–10 | 0.500
| 12 | 7 | – | 5
| 351 | 315
|style="text-align:left"| Lost QF: New Yorker Lions (14–45) |
- PR = Promotion round
- RR = Relegation round
- QF = Quarter finals
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://ifm-razorbacks.de/ }} {{in lang|de}}
{{German Football League clubs}}
Category:American football in Baden-Württemberg
Category:German Football League teams
Category:American football teams in Germany
Category:American football teams established in 1987