Ingolstadt Dukes

Ingolstadt Dukes
Founded 2007
League German Football League 2
Based in Ingolstadt
Colors

White and Black

         

Owner(s) TV 1861Ingolstadt
President Angela Wendelspies
Head coach Eugen Haaf
Website www.in-dukes.de

The Ingolstadt Dukes are a German American football team from Ingolstadt, Bavaria.

The club, formed in 2007, experienced its greatest success in 2014 when it won promotion to the German Football League 2, the second tier of league football in Germany.

History

The Ingolstadt Dukes were formed on 8 October 2007 at the club house of TV 1861 Ingolstadt, which became the parent organisation for the American football club. The early seasons of the new club were spend in near-by Manching as the Dukes were unable to secure a permanent home in Ingolstadt.[1]

The Dukes first season, in 2008, was spend in the tier eight Aufbauliga Bayern where it finished fourth and last in its division. It spend the following year in the Landesliga Bayern where it finished first and remained unbeaten all season. The club rose to the Verbandsliga for 2010, won this league, too, and played in the Bayernliga in 2011. After another league title there the Dukes entered the tier three Regionalliga Süd from 2012. Three seasons at this level followed in which the club improved season by season.[2]

In 2014 the Dukes won the Regionalliga, remaining unbeaten throughout and earned promotion to the German Football League 2 for the first time after a play-off victory over Regionalliga Mitte runners-up Langen Knights. The team finished second in the southern division of the GFL 2 in 2015.[2]

Logo and name

The club's logo results from the cities car number plates which start with In. The club's name, the Dukes, comes from the fact that Ingolstadt was once the capital of the Duchy of Bavaria-Ingolstadt.[3]

Honours

Recent seasons

Recent seasons of the Dukes:[4]

Year Division Finish Points Pct. Games W D L PF PA Postseason
2012 Regionalliga Süd 3rd 10–10 0.500 10 5 0 5 307 176 —
2013 2nd 16–4 0.800 10 8 0 2 366 114 Lost PR: Holzgerlingen Twister (6–6 & 23–24)
2014 1st 24–0 1.000 12 12 0 0 521 195 Won PR: Langen Knights (42–25 & 53–7)
2015 GFL 2 (South) 2nd 22–6 0.786 14 11 0 3 476 182 —
2016

References

  1. ↑ History (German) Ingolstadt Dukes website, accessed: 15 April 2015
  2. 1 2 Historic American football tables and results from Germany (German) football-history.de, accessed: 15 April 2015
  3. ↑ Das Logo der Ingolstadt Dukes (German) Ingolstadt Dukes website, accessed: 19 April 2015
  4. ↑ 3. Liga Süd 2014 tables and results football-aktuell.de, accessed: 19 April 2015

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