European League of Football Stadiums

[@noahboughdy2648]

So many team names from the NFL Europe era: Cologne Centurians, Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire, Hamburg Sea Devils, Berlin Thunder, and Barcelona Dragons. Blast from the past playing those old Madden video games.

[@narchia161]

I hope madden will introduce the EFL into their game one day

[@robbiebalboa]

You know when an American involves naming a team when they have name a team describing their habitat alongside the animal, like “Sea Devils” or “Mountain Cats”

[@QtzHardisty]

The Paris team changed their name to Musketeers, and Barcelona have moved from Rues to Estadi municipal Olympic de Terrassa, which is larger and closer to Barcelona, also Vienna were planning on moving as they weren't happy with the stadium last season. Apart from that then it's good.

[@walterxbenjamin]

The stadium in Wroclaw really is a sight to behold. It's also unique in that it's main purpose isn't any regular team sport played with a ball but speedway which is still very big in Poland.

[@Astragoth2]

I remember commenting on your video about the second tier of german football, wich featured the Rhein fire stadium. This league is so much fun! This year I bought season tickets for the very first time. Thank you for giving this league some well deserved exposure!

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

I’m not really an American Football fan but I do think this is a good league for Germany and Central Europe. Rugby isn’t really popular in Central Europe so it’s good to have a second (more physical) form of football as an alternative to soccer.

[@edwardburek1717]

I can heartily recommend watching ELF games, if you're able to do so. The standard is very high, and it looks very much like the standard of the stadiums used are rising as well. My particular favourite is Wroclaw's stadium, I have a feeling that it is also used for the Polish round of Speedway GP. Honourable mentions go to the Milan Seamen (pfffff....) and the team formerly known as the Paris Saints. Vienna's ground looks tidy as well.

[@malu498]

I really like this new League and was looking forward to this episode. Thank you very much :)

[@oscaralbertoguerrero9143]

Mexico actually has a Professional Gridiron League --> LFA As well as an interesting College Tournament --> ONEFA If You need Gridiron themed videos.

[@henryjw15]

He just be covering liga mx team stadiums, and college stadiums which are not designed particular for the sport. UACH and ITESM sport center being the only ones, maybe gaspar mass.

[@narchia161]

It's also worth mentioning that there is a pub integrated into the main stand of Stadion Hoheluft. Plus it's actually the 2nd oldest stadium in the league, the oldest one is the Stadion auf der Waldau in Stuttgart

[@coryshannon3815]

Cool to see some of the NFL Europe teams are still operating.

[@danielreichert9187]

They aren't still operating. Most of the teams were newly established for this new league and asked for permission to use the old names.

[@coryshannon3815]

@@danielreichert9187 I see. I guess they're spiritual successors to the old franchises, in a way.

[@narchia161]

None of them are 'still operating', they all folded when the NFL Europe did. They're all second incarnations using the old teams name. Sorta like the Baltimore Colts using the name of the first Baltimore based NFL franchise that folded, before they moved to Indianapolis

[@supersasukemaniac]

@@narchia161 not true, the Frankfurt Galaxy is still the original team, around the time the NFL Europa folded a local group bought the Galaxy from the NFL and rebranded them as the Frankfurt Universe. Once the Galaxy trademark expired that group bought the name and logo and the Universe started rocking Galaxy throwback uniforms for a while, with the founding of the ELF the Universe rebranded back to the Galaxy.

[@ulafhobert7064]

​@@supersasukemaniaconly half true. The Galaxy is a brand new franchise, and while you're right that the Universe is the successor to the old Galaxy, they are completely separate from the new one and relegated to GFL2 because the ELF Galaxy signed all their good players.

[@tdyerwestfield]

The track at Wroclaw isn't an athletics track, it's a Speedway circuit. Speedway is one of the most popular sports in Poland, and no other country has a bigger following of it than Poland. On a similar tangent, the 75000-seater Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, gets converted to a Speedway circuit once a year.

[@bastih.5264]

Very interesting mix of stadiums. I especially liked that you used my photo of Jahnsportpark. Luved it! And it's always great to see those little outdated stadiums from the GDR (Leipzig and Berlin).

[@blackJJseventeen]

Gazi is actually a cheese producing company not energy. But maybe the team is named after the infamous stuttgart cheese surge.

[@KidRivera1115]

“Perhaps the people of Milán love Seaman” 💀 💀

[@Mainecountryhuman]

💀

[@cs00LP]

Waiting for this video for a long time 🔥🔥some of the teams moved to a bigger stadium this season.

[@tpd1399]

This is awesome. I remember NFL Europe back in the day. How long has this been around?

[@justinress2782]

Since 2021

[@BroadwayJoe99]

FWIW, several ELF clubs are effectively phoenix clubs of old World League of American Football/NFL Europe/NFL Europa teams, specifically the Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire, Hamburg Sea Devils, Berlin Thunder, and Barcelona Dragons. When the ELF formed, it sought out and received permission from the NFL to use the names of the clubs mentioned above.

[@supersasukemaniac]

​​@@BroadwayJoe99 the Galaxy technically isn't a Phoenix club, after the NFL Europa disbanded the Frankfurt Galaxy rebranded to the Frankfurt Universe. Once the Trademark expired on the Galaxy name and logo, the Universe bought it and reverted back to the Galaxy name and branding. Then joined ELF as a founding club from the German league.

[@pius1922]

It started 2021 with 8 mostly german clubs. It grew to 12 clubs in 2022 and will feature 15 teams this season

[@niftydude3858]

@@pius1922 There will be 17 teams in 2023 (5 Western Conference, 6 Central Conference, 6 Eastern Conference)

[@tizfrreecharm]

Thanks for posting! Prague has an NFL-style football team? Never knew that my ancestral home would even care when they have Slavia and Sparta

[@danw2112]

If the NFL expands to Europe, I wonder which cities and stadiums, venues is going to be chosen to have a franchise.

[@supersasukemaniac]

I know one choice would be Hotspurs Stadium in London.

[@danw2112]

@@supersasukemaniac I figure there will be one or two teams in London, but I wonder where the other two teams will be.

[@williamredmond2544]

I Hope they don’t, I rather have a European league like this grow than nfl coming here

[@jintsfan]

I’d say one in UK (London) and the other 2 in Germany, based on the NFL Europe attendances.

[@jintsfan]

@@williamredmond2544 Ain’t gonna happen.

[@Normination]

Lmao, what you wanted to say in 0:29 was "überragend" and not "übergutentag" XDD

[@HaloNRW]

Genarali Arena in Vienna is puple because of the home soccer team AUSTRIA WIEN. The Vikings also play at "Hohe Warte" stadium.

[@hamburghsteelers]

Paris Saints got renamed in Paris Musketeers, Barcelona Dragons left Reus. I'm not sure but Hamburg Sea Devils have a 2nd Venue (Volksparkstadion) for bigger matches.

[@BoG_City]

Yeah, the Seadevils will play their first home game against Rhein Fire at the Volksparkstadion and have already sold 14k+ tickets for it

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

My bad.

[@BoG_City]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums no worries mate, its a young competition where a lot of things change each season. Good to see someone make a video about it 😁 such a weird variety of stadiums

[@Astragoth2]

the new stadium for Barcelona is much nicer too!

[@hamburghsteelers]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums the League is just 2 seasons old and mainly german. I guess it's hard to find that much new information.

[@CreightonRabs]

I find it interesting that a few of the team names, including the Barcelona Dragons, the Frankfurt Galaxy and the Rhein Fire (I know there are a few others, but I can't recall them offhand) were former NFL Europe clubs which were allowed to use those names following an agreement with the NFL.

[@minalumathe9072]

German del please (icehockey)

[@krzysztofreszczynski5326]

The Olympic Stadium in Wrocław is used mainly by the WTS Sparta Wrocław speedway team, why don't you make a video about speedway stadiums in Poland?

[@mariusmarkert4510]

I play for Berlin Thunder and the stadium will not be demolished. It will be rebuilt/modernized.

[@GVike]

You missed this fact: the Vikings stadium owes its purple to FK Austria Wien, its main tenant. Also, it's now called Franz Horr Stadium...

[@Vick478]

You should do the stadiums of the GFL (German Football League) next. That's the league I play for and I think we have some of the greatest fans on earth!

[@kwamz28]

Who do u play for?

[@Vick478]

@@kwamz28 Munich Cowboys. You play over here too bro?

[@kwamz28]

@@Vick478 nah I play over in the UK but I've got a few friends who play GFL so sometimes I watch the games or highlights

[@kwamz28]

Fellas it was me who requested this video 😎

[@karpak]

lets go, elf is so cool!

[@rolandschlossmacher1859]

Since 1979 a German Championship is held. For European Football a European Wide Championship is held since 1986 in different variations. The ELF is an independent Organisation and not incorporated to other European or National Organisations.

[@jordanarill]

Ah yes Milán is known for seamen

[@JNLister]

We have three different sized branches of Lidl near us. Naturally we call them little Lidl, middle Lidl and big Lidl. Confusingly, any unsold stuff from the middle of little Lidl and middle Lidl ends up in the much bigger middle of big Lidl.

[@divyanshuranjan2637]

Hey, I really like your work, especially that Aussie humor. and IPL is just around the corner and their venues are also announced. When can we expect video on it?

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

I'll add it to the list.

[@divyanshuranjan2637]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums Yeah sure mate! You made one abt SA20 league so i thought you will surely make of IPL but It's just less than a week away so i was just getting curious. PS:- it's just a short story, how i find your channel? As a regular viewer of Cricket, i found Australian cricket stadium quite different from other countries. They are huge in all ways, whether it's seating capacity, shear size or just their presence with relatively small population. England surely have most iconic grounds but they are not that grand, India have good big stadium but they are not that iconic but down under they have both, they are grand and iconic. So, later i found out that most of their ground are multiple purpose, they are not just for cricket. And found this brilliant idea, it's saves money, space and time. Then i found your channel and your content help me a lot to understand abt different sport cultures around the world, their government, audience and their impact. I always found rebuild/repurposed stadiums more fascinating, it shows power of time. It's my saying that a lot can be said by a sport/league/country/culture just by looking at their stadiums.

[@justinress2782]

The Vikings don’t play in the Generali Arena anymore. The football club has complained about the state of the pitch and kicked them out, right before a playoff game. Imagine that in any other sport.

[@lukasst7993]

@@steph8594 no they dont, karl Wurm said they are never ever going back to have a Cooperation with Austria Wien again After they kicked them out right before the semifinal game

[@samuelpinder1215]

Coventry city had the same issue after the commonwealth games rugby. And is the reason NFL uses astroturf

[@mariusmarkert4510]

@@lukasst7993 Has lasted a long time. 😅

[@RighAlban]

I only remember Rhine fire and Barcelona Dragons as still going from the old European league, the Scottish Claymores and the London Lions are no longer around, I might be wrong and some of the other teams might be originals, I just can't remember them.

[@overflow2820]

you gotta do some chl rink in canada

[@pauca17]

The Barcelona Dragons have recently moved to a bigger and cooler (imo) stadium called olimpic de terrassa

[@marcel_6.23]

Yessss 😀😍

[@wcbawords]

Even though you did the Wrocław stadium without mentioning speedway, when do we get a series of videos on speedway stadia?

[@robertperrella4175]

You should do a video on Canadian premier league

[@darthpeida1719]

The Paris team name has changed, now they are the Mouskateers

[@birdcityfootball]

should do LFA mexico stadiums

[@MYZEDJ]

THX Finally

[@Jaykey-mj2mp]

Hamburg is basically a costal City it feels and looks like one just not on a map

[@daniellopezt.v2529]

has un video de los estadios pequeños de 10,000 espectadores

[@darthpeida1719]

FINALLY

[@thechampionssss]

Make a video on IPL It will start this week

[@dennisud]

Is this league used as a farm system for the NFL?

[@mr.mr.4328]

Miss the old music 😔

[@DanielFuentes-x9z]

bonitos estadios

[@SauravStatingFacts]

Please do IPL stadiums

[@ytgbazza]

Yes. Please!!

[@Alexander1933S]

Come on, where is the Slovenian Football league 1.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

For a 2016 stadium the one in Hungary looks old. Please do MLR (rugby) stadiums in the USA.

[@Liggie55821]

He has! 😀

[@matewoth3970]

That's because the field was repurposed as an American Football field in 2016, the stadium itself is older, it was used by the MÁV Előre SC (railway worker's football club) in the past.

[@exactinmidget92]

i didnt know EU had another League. i still remember NFL Europe from back in the day.

[@jonpetter8921]

NFL Europe doesn t operate anymore

[@scottstauffer4094]

Heck! Four of the teams have NFL Europe names. I guess they didn't have copyrights on the name.

[@cs00LP]

They have an agreement with the NFL

[@toogyman]

Tottenham would be the obvious choice based purely on the stadium set up but it would have to fit around Spurs . That makes scheduling tricky Interestingly Rugby was on show at Tottenham when Saracens played Harlequins at the weekend to a full house and I think they used the normal field not the gridiron one !! I still struggle with them setting up an NFL team or teams in Europe. Most NFL fans have their team already and once the novelty wears off these teams would struggle if they don’t win many games and or don’t get some local boys playing . Now I know a few Rugby lads who I think could play but transitioning is tough to do If they don’t win immediately watch the stadiums they play in shrink every season

[@timneji]

The bigger Problem with Tottenham would be 1. the Price and 2. Its simlpy to big it would look extremly empty

[@Traggel]

Übergutentag actually means excellent day, excellent would just be über-gut

[@ytgbazza]

Milan sea men, why??????? 😭😭

[@tomasbuchmiller3640]

Lol I actually played in that game mentioned in Frankfurt against Kosovo. Small world

[@jackofallgamesTV]

In ELAF, are there fields 100 meters goal-line to goal-line or 100 yards? Is the line to gain 10 meters, or 10 yards? BTW the Dragons nd Galaxy were founding members of the World League of Americam Football (what? No Tokyo Tech? No Sydney Kangaroos? No Peking Ducks? No Cairo Pharohs? No Tehran Touchdowns? No Jeruselum Jihaddis? (Using the Jewish name for the city combined with Arabic word for "Warriors") No Johanasberg Unity? No Rio Rush? No Mexico City Aztecs? No Montreal Machine? (another original WLAF team) If the World League was truly a world league, it could have teams such as above? At least it's now called European so those teams seem unlikely.

[@miguelalves3765]

Day 1 of asking TWWS for a video on the portuguese football league

[@jintsfan]

The NFL has to go to Europe. Mexico is obvious too, but the wealth in Europe is the obvious and quicker destination if the product is to grow.

[@bignate5368]

They NFL played in Germany last season for the first time and are playing 2 games out there again this upcoming season

[@rapkae]

the Town is called Duisburg not Duisberg

[@jonathanfox676]

Summer league nba and ELF get me through the summer until football returns and baseball starts the postseason. It has more parody this year but the german and Austrian teams are way better. Still cool to see Europeans getting into the shit. They gobbled up basketball but for some reason the gridiron is a slower process

[@chucknorris741]

Über guten Tag translates to over good day its meaningless XDXD i think you thought of überragend

[@Richard-od7yd]

FINLAND has a League !!

[@maikhackschnitzel3107]

But why an european league? I mean, we still have our own american football league in germany, the GFL. I think a european league will downgrade the attractivity of the national leagues :/

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

ELF is mostly a Central European league. Yes, no doubt it will downgrade the national leagues if it sits above the national leagues. But it is probably only detrimental to GFL.

[@urm4363]

Because the GFL made no progress in making the sport more popular in the last 20 years.

[@samuelpinder1215]

​@@urm4363 that's because they're trying to spread an advertising campaign in a left wing country

[@Raider_MXD]

😊

[@howgoodistravel]

Unfortuntely a correction is needed - The Hamburg Sea-Devils have, unfortunately, moved into the HSV Volksparkstadion (forza St Pauli!)

[@QtzHardisty]

They're only playing one game at HSV.

[@supersasukemaniac]

Fun fact: All the German teams are former NFL Europa squads.

[@justinress2782]

Nope, The Kings and Ravens are original ELF Franchises. And the Surge is just an old name from the World League.

[@supersasukemaniac]

​​@@justinress2782 the founding teams where (Colonge Centurians, Frankfurt Galaxy, and Hamburg Devils) then Rhien Fire was the first expansion franchise. So the first 4 German ELF teams where a continuation of the original NFL Europa squads.

[@niftydude3858]

@@supersasukemaniac Don`t forget that Leipzig Kings was a German founding team as well

[@curlyred83]

First

[@CRVENAZVEZDA-wn1ws]

Kosovo i Metohija is Serbia

[@howgoodistravel]

no it isn't

[@CRVENAZVEZDA-wn1ws]

@@howgoodistravel yes it is

[@BigKendog]

no it isn't

[@samuelpinder1215]

​@@CRVENAZVEZDA-wn1ws Kosovo is it's own country. Yugoslavia got deleted ages ago

[@CRVENAZVEZDA-wn1ws]

@@samuelpinder1215 Kosovo and Metohija (holy Christian land) is part of Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸 If you think the opposite, then you support Islamic terrorism and genocide and the expulsion of the Christian people from the holy Serbian and Christian land