Competition snapshot
Country: 🇪🇺 Europe
Season window: May 23 – September 6, 2026; 51 games over 16 weeks; Gold Bowl in Duisburg
Status: scheduled
Tracked teams: 8
American Football League Europe
Eight-team cross-border professional league launching in 2026. AFLE has now made the full public 51-game schedule available, including regular season, semifinals and the Gold Bowl in Duisburg.
League overview
American Football League Europe is one of the main American football competitions connected to Europe. Pigskin Europe tracks it as a scheduled league for May 23 – September 6, 2026; 51 games over 16 weeks; Gold Bowl in Duisburg, with 8 listed teams, source links, standings notes and related club pages. This page is built as a static reference so fans, clubs and search engines can find the league without relying on JavaScript.
Data notes
2026 regular-season table computed from imported scores on 2026-10-12. Explicit playoff and championship fixtures are excluded. League-specific tiebreakers may differ from the official table.
Standings
| # | Team | GP | W | L | T | Pct | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Vienna Vikings (AFLE) | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0.917 | 562 | 180 | 382 |
| 2 |  Rhein Fire | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0.833 | 518 | 198 | 320 |
| 3 |  Panthers Wrocław | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0.833 | 446 | 249 | 197 |
| 4 |  London Warriors | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0.500 | 327 | 414 | -87 |
| 5 |  Berlin Thunder | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0.417 | 357 | 368 | -11 |
| 6 |  Alpine Rams | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0.250 | 258 | 446 | -188 |
| 7 |  Paris Lights | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0.250 | 236 | 428 | -192 |
| 8 |  Firenze Red Lions | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0.000 | 195 | 616 | -421 |
2026 regular-season table computed from imported scores on 2026-10-12. Explicit playoff and championship fixtures are excluded. League-specific tiebreakers may differ from the official table.
Current teams
Berlin Thunder
Team profile, results and map data.
Rhein Fire
Team profile, results and map data.
Vienna Vikings (AFLE)
Team profile, results and map data.
Panthers Wrocław
Team profile, results and map data.
Alpine Rams
Team profile, results and map data.
Paris Lights
Team profile, results and map data.
Firenze Red Lions
Team profile, results and map data.
London Warriors
Team profile, results and map data.
Latest American Football League Europe news
AFLE has published its full 2026 public schedule: 51 games from Berlin Thunder at Vienna Vikings on May 23 through the Gold Bowl in Duisburg on September 6.
Europe weekend roundup: Wroclaw stun Rhein, Vienna hit 71, and the GFL playoff map hardens
Panthers Wroclaw beat Rhein Fire 41-40 to reach the AFLE Gold Bowl against Vienna, while Germany and Finland gave the weekend its wider playoff context.
Europe weekend roundup: AFLE bracket set, GFL blowouts everywhere, and Wroclaw survives Berlin
Vienna, Rhein and Wroclaw closed the AFLE regular season with wins, while Pforzheim, Potsdam, Dusseldorf, Triangle and Aalborg supplied the weekend’s biggest verified margins.
Europe weekend roundup: Wroclaw shocked Vienna, Nordic crushed Munich, and Rhein stayed loud
The August 8-9 weekend gave Vienna Vikings their first AFLE loss, Nordic Storm a 55-7 EFA statement over Munich Ravens, Rhein Fire another 49-point answer, and the GFL a stack of ruthless contenders.
Europe weekend roundup: Rhein hit 59, London moved the race, and the GFL kept sorting itself
The August 1-2 board was a sorting weekend: Rhein Fire blew out Alpine Rams 59-6, London Warriors won 40-29 in Berlin, Paris Lights got a needed road win in Florence, and the GFL kept Schwabisch Hall and Dresden unbeaten.
AFLE 2026 preview: Europe’s new league already remembered to be loud
AFLE’s inaugural season is finally more than branding: eight teams, a 51-game calendar and early statements from Vienna and Wrocław.
AFLE Week 1: Vienna and Wrocław open the new league by submitting two formal complaints to the scoreboard
Vienna Vikings flattened Berlin 49–7, Panthers Wrocław beat London 41–21, and AFLE’s first weekend immediately clarified who brought fireworks and who brought a clipboard to a knife fight.
Statistics coverage
Seasons in Pigskin data: 2026.
Recent imported results
2026
Panthers Wrocław @ Vienna Vikings (AFLE)5-68 Gold BowlPanthers Wrocław @ Rhein Fire41-40 London Warriors @ Vienna Vikings (AFLE)34-71 Rhein Fire @ London Warriors40-30 Alpine Rams @ Paris Lights34-28 Panthers Wrocław @ Berlin Thunder36-33 Firenze Red Lions @ Vienna Vikings (AFLE)17-63 Rhein Fire @ Firenze Red Lions66-14 London Warriors @ Panthers Wrocław0-41 Vienna Vikings (AFLE) @ Alpine Rams47-24