Britbowl Finals 1985-Present

Year	Bowl	Winners		Runners-Up
		BAFL
1985	Summerbowl I	London Ravens	45	Streatham Olympians	7
1986*	Summerbowl II	Birmingham Bulls	23	Glasgow Lions	2
		Budweiser League
1986*	Bud Bowl I	London Ravens	20	London Olympians	12
1987	Bud Bowl II	London Ravens	40	Manchester Allstars	23
1988	Bud Bowl III	Birmingham Bulls	30	London Olympians	6
1989	Bud Bowl IV	Manchester Spartans	21	Birmingham Bulls	14
		NDMA
1990	NDMA Coke Bowl I	Manchester Spartans	27	Northants Storm	25
1991	NDMA Coke Bowl II	Birmingham Bulls	39	London Olympians	38
1992	NDMA Coke Bowl III	London Olympians	34	Leicester Panthers	6
1993	NDMA Bowl	London Olympians	40	Glasgow Lions	14
		BAFA
1994	BAFA Div 1 Bowl	London Olympians	24	Birmingham Bulls	23
1995	BAFA Div 1 Bowl	Birmingham Bulls	34	London Olympians	30
1996	BAFA Div 1 Bowl	Leicester Panthers	10	Milton Keynes Pioneers	6
		BIGC
1997	BIG C Final	London O’s	26	Milton Keynes Pioneers	20 ot
		BAFA
1998	BSL Div 1 Bowl	London O’s	20	Sussex Thunder	0
1999	BSL Div 1 Bowl	London O’s	9	Birmingham Bulls	6
2000	BSL Div 1 Bowl	London O’s	34	Birmingham Bulls	26
2001	BSL Div 1 Bowl	London O’s	37	East Kilbride Pirates	20
2002	BSL Div 1 Bowl	London O’s	42	PA Knights	15
2003	BSL Div 1 Bowl	London O’s	35	East Kilbride Pirates	7
2004	BSL Div 1 Bowl	PA Knights	28	London O’s	14
2005	Britbowl XIX	London O’s	21	PA Knights	19
2006	Britbowl XX	London Olympians	45	London Blitz	30
2007	Britbowl XXI	London Blitz	14	Coventry Jets	6
2008	Britbowl XXII	Coventry Jets	33	London Blitz	32
2009	Britbowl XXIII	London Blitz	26	Coventry Jets	7
2010	BAFACL Premiership	London Blitz	34	Coventry Jets	20
2011	BAFACL Premiership	London Blitz	18	London Warriors	0
2012	BAFANL Premiership	London Blitz	37	London warriors	21
2013	BAFANL Premiership	London Warriors	26	London Blitz	23
2014	BAFANL Final	London Warriors	10	London Blitz	8
2015	BAFANL Final	London Warriors	20	London Blitz	19
2016
2017
2018
2019	BAFANL Premiership	London Warriors	56	Tamworth Phoneix	29

Note: BAFL = British American Football League, NDMA = National Division Management Association, BAFA = British American Football Association, BSL = British senior League, BIGC = British Independent Gridiron Conference. *Two Organisation held different BLeagues and Bowl Games in 1986, with the most important one disputed.

Report

London teams have won most of British American Football’s Top Bowl Games, known as the Britbowl. London Ravens won the first three from 1985 to 1987, with the Birmingham Bulls also winning a rival Bowl Game in 1986. Between 1988 and 1991 the Champions were all North or Midlands teams, with Manchester Spartans winning in 1989 and 1990 and Birmingham Bulls winning in 1988 and 1991.

London Olympians then won three-in-a-row from 1992 to 1994, before the title headed back to the Midlands, with Birmingham Bulls triumphing in 1995 and Leicester Panthers in 1996. Then followed a seven year winning streak for the London O’s until 2003, with the PA Knights ((Farnham, Surrey) interrupting the sequence in 2004, before London O’s won again in 2005 and 2006 (they reverted back to the Olympians name in 2006).

London Blitz then won five of the next six Finals from 2007 to 2012, with Coventry Jets winning in between in 2008. London Warriors won the title from 2013 to 2019.

References

Images

[1] American Football International (2013) logo [Internet] Available from: https://www.britishamericanfootball.org/Images/logo.png [Accessed 30 August 2017]

Websites

[2] Bitball Now (2016) British Champions List [Internet] Available from: http://www.britballnow.co.uk/history-index/british-champions-list.html [Accessed 11 July 2020]

[3] British American Football Association League Republic (2019) Adult League [Internet] Available from: bafanle.leaguerepublic.com.=/l/fg/1_567612366.html [Accessed 7 May 2020][Broken Link]

Websites

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ralph Schmeer (IAFOA)

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 11 July 2020

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