| 2012 German Football League | |
|---|---|
| League | German Football League |
| Sport | American football |
| Duration | 28 April–13 October 2012 |
| Number of teams | 16 |
| Promoted to GFL | Köln Falcons |
| Relegated to GFL2 | Lübeck Cougars |
| Regular season | |
| GFL North champions | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes |
| GFL North runners-up | Berlin Adler |
| GFL South champions | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns |
| GFL South runners-up | Rhein-Neckar Bandits |
| German Bowl XXXIV | |
| Champions | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns |
| Runners-up | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes |
The 2012 German Football League season was the thirty fourth edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany and thirteenth since the renaming of the American football Bundesliga to German Football league.[1]
The league tables of the two GFL divisions:[1]
| GFL North | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | Team | G | W | T | L | PF | PA | PCT | |
| 1 | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 593 | 272 | 0.929 | |
| 2 | Berlin Adler | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 412 | 294 | 0.786 | |
| 3 | Dresden Monarchs | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 481 | 297 | 0.714 | |
| 4 | Düsseldorf Panther | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 509 | 453 | 0.571 | |
| 5 | Berlin Rebels | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 371 | 258 | 0.464 | |
| 6 | Braunschweig Lions | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 374 | 497 | 0.286 | |
| 7 | Hamburg Blue Devils | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 257 | 586 | 0.143 | |
| 8 | Lübeck Cougars | 14 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 239 | 579 | 0.107 | |
| GFL South | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | Team | G | W | T | L | PF | PA | PCT | |
| 1 | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns | 14 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 654 | 302 | 0.857 | |
| 2 | Rhein-Neckar Bandits | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 418 | 439 | 0.714 | |
| 3 | Marburg Mercenaries | 14 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 473 | 339 | 0.643 | |
| 4 | Stuttgart Scorpions | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 344 | 271 | 0.643 | |
| 5 | Franken Knights | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 438 | 579 | 0.429 | |
| 6 | Wiesbaden Phantoms | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 300 | 408 | 0.286 | |
| 7 | Saarland Hurricanes | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 366 | 479 | 0.250 | |
| 8 | Munich Cowboys | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 297 | 473 | 0.179 | |
| GFL: Qualified for play-offsGFL2: Promoted | Relegation play-offsPromotion play-offs | Relegated |
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | German Bowl | ||||||||||||
| N1 | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes | 70 | ||||||||||||
| S4 | Stuttgart Scorpions | 22 | ||||||||||||
| N1 | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes | 35 | ||||||||||||
| N3 | Dresden Monarchs | 14 | ||||||||||||
| S2 | Rhein-Neckar Bandits | 19 | ||||||||||||
| N3 | Dresden Monarchs | 31 | ||||||||||||
| N1 | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes | 53 | ||||||||||||
| S1 | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns | 56 | ||||||||||||
| S1 | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns | 41 | ||||||||||||
| N4 | Düsseldorf Panther | 25 | ||||||||||||
| S1 | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns | 38 | ||||||||||||
| N2 | Berlin Adler | 21 | ||||||||||||
| N2 | Berlin Adler | 35 | ||||||||||||
| S3 | Marburg Mercenaries | 21 | ||||||||||||