Frankfurt Galaxy in the death group again | hessenschau.de
Frankfurt’s football fans now know who their Galaxy will play against in the coming season. Even if some strong opponents from last season are no longer there, the Men in Purple will have to drill thick boards again.
The European League of Football (ELF) announced the conferences for the new 2023 season on Friday. These are necessary because the league has grown by a few teams for the new season. Paris, Milan, Zurich, Munich, Prague and Székesfehérvár from Hungary will be part of the European football circus in the coming year. The Istanbul Rams will no longer be there.
The Galaxy, who found themselves in the Central Conference with the Stuttgart Surge and the two Austrian heavyweights from Innsbruck and Champion Vienna in the past season, will slide into the new Western Conference in 2023. There the direct opponents in the fight for the playoffs are now Paris, Hamburg, Cologne and Rhein Fire. In addition, the Hessians will play Milan from the Central Conference and Székesfehérvár from the Eastern Conference. The schedule for the Hessians has not become any easier as a result.
Sieges against Cologne are mandatory
Sure, with the Cologne Centurions you have drawn a group opponent who has to be beaten in both the first and second leg. The Galaxy has already done that in the past two seasons, but now the Cologne team is also in the process of rebuilding. The parties should also become an even clearer affair than 2021 and 22.
The inthroners from Hungary shouldn’t present the champions of 2021 with a major task either. The Seamen from Milano are probably in the middle of the league. You can stumble against the Italians, but the Galaxy is also the favorite in both games.
Lots of title contenders
With the Sea Devils from Hamburg, however, it is against the team that made it to the finals in the two previous seasons. Rhein Fire is also considered by all experts to be a clear contender for the title. One sign of this is the league’s choice of location for the championship game. Last season, the season finale was held in Klagenfurt, Austria – and an Austrian team won the title. In the coming season, the ELF awarded the final to Duisburg. To the stadium where Rhein Fire plays its home games.
And then there is Paris. The team that is still looking for a name is the team next to Rhein Fire, Hamburg and defending champion Vienna, which is most likely to be able to win the title. The standing of American football in France is completely different from that in Germany. The structures are better and have grown over the years. It is no coincidence that the Galaxy had four French players on the team last season. As many as otherwise only from the USA, the football motherland.
Galaxy with outsider chances
The Galaxy conference is clearly the hardest of the 2023 season. There is no discussion about that. In football circles there is already talk of the death group 2.0. Last season’s group of deaths? Of course, the Central Conference back then, in which the Galaxy just barely made it into the playoffs behind Vienna and Innsbruck.
The Frankfurt team may not be among the favorites in the coming season, but they do have outsider chances of winning the title. The three conference winners and the three teams with the most points from the other teams make it into the playoffs. Means for the Men in Purple: Maybe even third place in the Western Conference is enough to make it into the post-season. But you shouldn’t rely on it.