Allgäu Comets

The Allgäu Comets (until 1993 Kempten Comets ) are an American football team from Kempten ( Allgäu) in Bavaria. The Comets played in the 2012 and 2013 season in the second German league, the GFL 2 At the end of the 2013 season was achieved promotion to the Bundesliga 1, the GFL.

History

In 1982, the Football Association Allgäu Comets by former teacher Erich Gray was established from Ansbach. At the start, some athletes met twice a week to under the guidance of the first coach Mike Romans to exercise.

From the American barracks in Memmingen and Augsburg the Allgäu Comets the necessary support received by soldiers stationed there. At this time the club managed positive results through to the quarter-finals of the German Championship and the second German Youth Champion.

After two near misses rises in 2009 and 2010 from the Regionalliga Süd in the GFL 2 could be the target set, the rise in the GFL 2, with the slogan " If not now then when? " Meet 2011.

2012 they went to the effort to create the league in the 2nd Bundesliga in the season. This target was exceeded, with the 1st place. Here you could establish with an average attendance of 1,871 among the 5 richest football clubs in Germany spectator.

In the relegation round of the Allgäu Comets had to compete against the Munich Cowboys. Both the outward and the return game lost the Allgäu Comets and thus remain in the GFL2.

2013 we finally made the resurgence in the GFL 1 with only one defeat. In the Relegation you defeated the Wiesbaden Phantoms.

Title

Stadium

The club plays in the Illerstadion Kempten. A natural grass pitch with a seating capacity of 4,500. In 2013 ( GFL 2 South) arrived about 16,300 spectators to the home games of the Allgäu Comets, the average was about 2,000 spectators. This gives you the Allgäu Comets 3rd most viewers in the German American Football at all.

Source: Statistics, official statistics page of the GFL 1 & 2

Honors

2011, 2012 and 2013, the Allgäu Comets have won three times in a row as Team of the Year by the city of Kempten (Allgäu ). Also in 2012 the Allgäu Comets were awarded to the club of the year by the American Football Association of Germany.

Youth Team

Since the mid- 1980s, the Comets run a successful youth work. At that time in 1st Bundesliga youth work was one of the conditions to obtain the license for the Bundesliga. The greatest success of the youth in this period was 1989, the German vice-championship. In the game in Nuremberg, the young Comets were subject only just the team from the Berlin Adler. In the following years, some titles could be celebrated on Bavarian level.

In addition to the A- Team Tackle Youth (16 - to 19 -year-old ), the Comets went in 2012 with a B- Youth Tackle team (13-16 year olds) and a U15 team flag (12 - to 15 -year-old ) in the operation of gambling. In parallel, there is a Bambini flag team, the Allgäu Rockets, under construction.

Teams in the Allgäu Comets

• Allgäu Comets ( Tackle Football | GFL2 )
• Allgäu Comets II ( Tackle Footall | under construction)
• Allgäu Comets A- Youth 16-19 J. ( Tackle Football | League Bayern )
• Allgäu Comets Youth B 13-16 J. ( Tackle Football | Youth Power League )
• ELEMENTS ( Cheerleading )