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WOW!

1st offseason banger!

A recent post on X announcing the line up of teams includes Barcelona and Prague so it looks possible the Dragons and Lions are here to stay. 18 of the 24 teams promised so far....

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Quick update for CS game 2025: Currently 8.8k tickets sold according the dots on Ticketmaster. The drop in the curve comes from prior blocked seats (and therefore counted as sold) changed back to available.

ELF has officially announced 7.5k sold tickets a few weeks ago. If you ask me it will be hard to pass the 20k. I have my next update scheduled for the beginning of January.

He comes from the Dresden Monarchs and seems to be an explosive player and great asset. Sadly, this means that one of the best RBs in the league Dwayne Obi won't return to the Madrid franchise next season

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Is there any hope for an English team, best team in the country is probably the tyrants, idk how feasible it is

We mean business

Fan favorite and outstanding athlete and swiss army knife Exavier Edwards is leaving the Vienna Vikings after 3 years, as he wrote on Insta!

Wow!

https://x.com/ELF_Official/status/1854102172276756689

It's in german, so I wrote down the topics

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd8Mt7KSfB0

He has 3 big issues

-- Budget - there will be a new investor (from Poland, he's building at Potsdamer Platz / Matell Center)

-- Coaches (they already have a new HC, but the contract is not signed yet)

--- There will be 3 full time coaches. HC, OC & DC will be Americans, some with NFL experience and some who have worked in Berlin before

--- There was a meeting with all players, most of them remain loyal to the Thunder (about 90%)

--- Jakeb Sullivan is definitely staying

--- Kyle Kitchens might stay after all. The new HC has talked to him

--- Dominik Eberle has not yet been spoken to. Status unclear

--- They have very interesting applications -> players from other franchises, but also other leagues

Stadium --- Possibly they will play at the old stadium again, on the “B-pitch” withbuilding their own stands for 5 - 6000 people.

--- The Jahnstadion itself is currently being demolished.

--- Option B would be the Poststadion

--- He can't say anything negative about the city politicians with whom they are in talks

- A rebranding has been done, the new logo (see corresponding thread in r/elf) has been submitted to the league for approval

- More staff will be hired (e.g. HR, currently there are about 80 employees)

-- There were no standard contracts in the past. This will be changed and according to German labor law there will be. No more verbal agreements as before.

- There were many reactions and help to an open letter from the GM to the members

- A lot of sponsor & partner discussions are being held

- It was known that Björn Werner was quitting - so no surpriseat this point

-- No sponsor has bailed out because of this

- Break even point is in 2 years, if things continue as before. The target is 4,500 - 5,000 spectators on average

-- The source of income from merchandising must be better developed

- The league has a new investor who has not yet been announced.

- He is very positive about the future of the league.

-- The performance standard of the league has become so high that it feels for (good!) players as if they are playing in the third division when they leave the ELF for the GFL and come back.

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We have a second game scheduled for the 2025 season (after the CG in Stuttgart): Rhein Fire announced June 1st, 2025, as date for the home game in the Merkur Spiel Arena in Düsseldorf. The arena has a capacity of 51,500 and hosted the ELF Championship Game 2021. The other five home games will take place in Duisburg as before. If the game is a success, two home games in Düsseldorf are possible in the 2026 season.

BTW: Sea Devils are looking into the option of two home games at Volksparkstadion.

Not official yet. Shown by FootBowl Newszone. Looks lot more like Thunder NFLE logo.

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I saw a rumor going around that Toni Monton is possibly retiring. I can't find anything on official EFL channels and sources confirming this and considering he just signed a 3 year extension last offseason it would be a huge blow to an already struggling franchise. Anyone have any ideas how this rumor may have started? If this is goodbye though we will miss him dearly.

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Acoording to german journalist Sebastian Mühlenhof:

Barcelona Dragons and Cologne Centourios wasn´t represent on the comissioner dinner during the final-weekend.

Source: https://x.com/Seppmaster56/status/1851323823586754580

If the teams aren´t represented on a dinner with other team-owner, that means there in more trouble as we thought. And it could be the end of the franchises for "Barcelona Dragons and Cologne Centurions".

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Yesterday they signed Pat Ruel as Assistant Head Coach & OL Coach to their coaching staff. As an OL Coach, he won the Super Bowl XLVIII with Seattle.

Earlier today they signed Darqueze Dennard as DB Coach to their coaching staff. The former first round pick (#24) of the Bengals played a total of 7 years in the NFL.

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Nice little trailer: https://x.com/MadridBravos/status/1851204894914396165

It's Bart Andrus.

Some of you may remember him from the NFLE. He was HC there from 2001-2007 (Admirals), after being OC with Rhein Fire in 2000. He will also be the OC.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Andrus