Birmingham Bulls (American football)
Encyclopedia
Birmingham Bulls is a British
American football
team based in the West Midlands
, England
at the ground of Walsall Rugby Club.
teams playing in the United Kingdom
, having been founded in 1983. The Bulls field a senior team in the British American Football League Community Leagues Division One, as well as Junior & Youth teams. The Bulls is one of the most successful teams in the land, only failing to make the playoffs 3 times out of 25 seasons, and winning 4 British titles. The team remained in the Premier Division following the 2007 BAFL re-alignment.
The team represented the UK in the inaugural Eurobowl
, where they placed third.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team based in the West Midlands
West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
at the ground of Walsall Rugby Club.
Overview
The Bulls is one of the longer established American footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
teams playing in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, having been founded in 1983. The Bulls field a senior team in the British American Football League Community Leagues Division One, as well as Junior & Youth teams. The Bulls is one of the most successful teams in the land, only failing to make the playoffs 3 times out of 25 seasons, and winning 4 British titles. The team remained in the Premier Division following the 2007 BAFL re-alignment.
The team represented the UK in the inaugural Eurobowl
Eurobowl
The Eurobowl is both the final game and the trophy of the European Football League , a European American football contest.-Eurobowls:-Champions:...
, where they placed third.
Season results
| Year | Division | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | BSL Premier Division | 1-7-0 |
| 2007 | BSL Premier Division | 5-4-1 |
| 2006 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 7-3-0* |
| 2005 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 10-0-0* |
| 2004 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 8-1-1* |
| 2003 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 7-3-0* |
| 2002 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 8-2-0* |
| 2001 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 5-3-0* |
| 2000 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 7-1-0* |
| 1999 | BSL Division One National Conference | 5-2-0* |
| 1998 | BSL Division One Northern Conference | 9-1-0* |
| 1997 | British Independent Gridirion Conference | 3-3-0* |
| 1996 | BSL Division Two Northern Conference | 10-0-0* |
| 1995 | BAFA Division One | 9-1-0* |
| 1994 | BAFA Division One | 6-4-0* |
| 1993 | NDMA Central Conference | 6-4-0 |
| 1992 | NDMA Southern Conference | 9-1-0* |
| 1991 | 1991 NDMA Northern Conference | 9-1-0* |
| 1990 | NDMA Northern Conference | 9-1-0* |
| 1989 | Budweiser League Midlands Conference | 9-1-0* |
| 1988 | Budweiser League National Division Midlands Conference | 12-1-1* |
| 1987 | Budweiser League National Division Western Conference | 7-3-0* |
| 1986 | BAFL National League Central Conference | 10-2-0* |
| 1985 | AFL Midlands Division | 12-0-0* |
| 1984 | Merit table | 4-3-0 |
| * qualified for playoffs | ||
2007 season
- 29/04/07 2:30 pm - Coventry Cassidy Jets (0-42 L)
- 13/05/07 2:30 pm - East Kilbride Pirates (13-0 W)
- 20/05/07 2:30 pm - Gateshead Senators (26-3 W)
- 10/06/07 2:30 pm - Gateshead Senators (3-3)
- 15/07/07 2:30 pm - London Olympians (0-14 L)
- 29/07/07 2:30 pm - Bristol Aztecs (14-19 L)
- 12/08/07 12:00 pm - London Blitz (30-6 L)
- 19/08/07 2:30 pm - East Kilbride Pirates (13-0 L)
- 26/08/07 2:30 pm - Southern Sundevils (36-0 W)
- 02/09/07 2:30 pm - Coventry Cassidy Jets ( 52-12 L)
2006 season
- 14/05/06 2:30 pm - ASAP Yorkshire Rams (20-0 W)
- 28/05/06 2:30 pm - Coventry Cassidy Jets (0-27 L)
- 11/06/06 2:30 pm - Doncaster Mustangs (45-0 W)
- 25/06/06 2:30 pm - Nottingham Caesars (Forfeit 0-1 W)
- 02/07/06 2:30 pm - Staffordshire Surge (49-0 W)
- 16/07/06 2:30 pm - East Kilbride Pirates (44-6 W)
- 30/07/06 2:30 pm - Doncaster Mustangs East (42-6 W)
- 06/08/06 2:30 pm - Gateshead Senators (8-7 W)
- 13/08/06 2:30 pm - East Kilbride Pirates (18-6 L)
- 20/08/06 2:30 pm - Gateshead Senators (10-40 L)
- 03/09/06 2:30 pm - Southern Sundevils (6-22 L) Division 1 Play-off Game