2008 BAFL season

The 2008 BAFL Season is the British American Football League. BritBowl XXII, the league's championship game, is scheduled to be played at Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster on September 21, 2008. The regular season began on May 4 with the BritBowl champions London Blitz defeating the Gateshead Senators 48-0.

Schedule

Regular Season

Formula

Based on the British American Football League, setup for the 2008 season there will be a 3 tier structure consisting of:

Division	Teams
BAFL Premier	7
BAFL 1 North	6
BAFL 1 South	6
BAFL 2 Central Conference	6
BAFL 2 East Conference	5
BAFL 2 North Conference	6
BAFL 2 South East Conference	5
BAFL 2 South West Conference	5

Final regular season standings

W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT = Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against

Clinched playoff seeds are marked in parentheses and shaded in green, for BAFL 2 divisions the colours have been changed to indicate Northern and Southern sides of the Playoffs.

BAFL Premier standings

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
BAFL Premier
(1) Coventry Cassidy Jets	8	0	0	1.000	265	64
(2) London Blitz	6	2	0	0.750	219	129
(3) Farnham Fast Lane Knights	5	3	0	0.625	263	128
(4) Bristol Aztecs	4	4	0	0.500	195	131
East Kilbride Pirates	4	4	0	0.500	138	196
Birmingham Bulls	1	7	0	0.125	18	233
Gateshead Senators	0	0	8	0.000	26	243

BAFL Division 1 standings

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
BAFL 1 - North
(1) Redditch Arrows	7	2	1	0.750	285	85
(3) Yorkshire Rams	7	2	1	0.750	215	101
Dundee Hurricanes	5	2	3	0.650	227	91
West Coast Trojans	4	4	2	0.500	188	170
South Yorkshire Mustangs	3	7	0	0.300	114	274
Staffordshire Surge	0	9	1	0.050	73	381
BAFL 1 - South
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
(2) Sussex Thunder	7	3	0	0.700	154	76
(4) Southern Sundevils	6	4	0	0.600	165	110
Kent Exiles	6	4	0	0.600	162	124
Ipswich Cardinals	5	5	0	0.500	167	175
Oxford Saints	4	5	1	0.450	143	169
Norwich Devils	1	8	1	0.150	104	241

BAFL Division 2 standings

Northern Section Playoff	Southern Section Playoff

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
BAFL 2 - Central Conference
(1) Nottingham Caesars	9	0	1	0.950	269	55
(3) Tamworth Phoenix	6	2	2	0.700	230	50
Shropshire Revolution	5	5	0	0.500	209	127
Hull Hornets	3	4	3	0.450	94	143
Leicester Falcons	3	5	2	0.400	107	176
Lincolnshire Bombers	0	10	0	0.000	58	416
BAFL 2 - East Conference
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
(2) Cambridgeshire Cats	9	1	0	0.900	336	45
(4) Peterborough Saxons	8	2	0	0.800	379	44
Bedfordshire Blue Raiders	4	6	0	0.400	128	197
Watford Cheetahs	2	7	1	0.250	94	304
Milton Keynes City Pathfinders	0	9	1	0.050	60	445
BAFL 2 - North Conference
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
(2) Merseyside Nighthawks	8	2	0	0.800	258	107
(4) Lancashire Wolverines	6	4	0	0.600	260	171
Manchester Titans	6	4	0	0.600	232	222
Edinburgh Wolves	5	5	0	0.500	168	1554
Glasgow Tigers	5	5	0	0.500	117
Chester Romans	0	10	0	.000	60	332
BAFL 2 - South East Conference
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
(1) London Cobras	10	0	0	1.000	382	9
(6) Colchester Gladiators	7	3	0	0.700	263	180
East Kent Mavericks	6	4	0	0.600	225	193
Essex Spartans	1	8	1	0.150	126	343
Maidstone Pumas	1	9	0	0.100	109	395
BAFL 2 - South West Conference
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
(3) South Wales Warriors	9	1	0	0.900	233	47
(5) Cornish Sharks	7	3	0	0.600	141	60
Hampshire Thrashers	6	4	0	0.600	232	119
Plymouth Admirals	2	8	0	0.200	88	225
Reading Renegades	1	8	1	0.150	88	283

Playoffs

The playoffs are scheduled to start on August 24, 2008. BritBowl XXII will then be played on September 21, 2008 at Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster.

BAFL Premier Playoff

Seed	Teams
1	Coventry Cassidy Jets
2	London Blitz
3	Farnham Fast Lane Knights
4	Bristol Aztecs

BAFL Premier Championship Game/BritBowl

Semifinals			BritBowl

1	Coventry Cassidy Jets	31
4	Bristol Aztecs	28	1	Coventry Cassidy Jets	33
2	London Blitz	28	2	London Blitz	32
3	Farnham Fast Lane Knights	15

BAFL 1 Playoff

Seed	Teams
1	Redditch Arrows
2	Sussex Thunder
3	Yorkshire Rams
4	Southern Sundevils

BAFL 1 Championship Game

Semifinals			Championship Game

1	Redditch Arrows	30
4	Southern Sundevils	22	1	Redditch Arrows	18
2	Sussex Thunder	26	2	Sussex Thunder	20
3	Yorkshire Rams	16

BAFL 2 Playoff

The BAFL 2 Playoffs are split geographically between the North and the South. The Southern half of the draw includes the top two teams from each of the East, South East and South West. With the top two from the Northern and Central conferences making up the Northern half.

Seed	Southern Section	Northern Section
1	London Cobras	Nottingham Caesars
2	Cambridgeshire Cats	Merseyside Nighthawks
3	South Wales Warriors	Tamworth Phoenix
4	Peterborough Saxons	Lancashire Wolverines
5	Cornish Sharks
6	Colchester Gladiators

Bracket


August 24			August 31



5	Cornish Sharks	9
			1	London Cobras	42
4	Peterborough Saxons	6				September 7
			5	Cornish Sharks	3

			AFC
August 24						1	London Cobras	32
			August 31
						2	Cambridgeshire Cats	0

3	South Wales Warriors	21				AFC Championship
			3	South Wales Warriors	7
6	Colchester Gladiators	12							September 21 - Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster
			2	Cambridgeshire Cats	21
Wild Card Playoffs
			Divisional Playoffs
										London Cobras	30
			August 31
										Tamworth Phoenix	6

									BAFL 2 Championship
			2	Merseyside Nighthawks	0
						September 7
			3	Tamworth Phoenix	12

			NFC
						3	Tamworth Phoenix	16
			August 31
						1	Nottingham Caesars	10

						NFC Championship
			1	Nottingham Caesars	49

			4	Lancashire Wolverines	23

NFC North	Clyde Valley Blackhawks Edinburgh Wolves Gateshead Senators Doncaster Mustangs

NFC South	Chester Romans Merseyside Nighthawks Nottingham Caesars Shropshire Revolution

SFC North	Birmingham Bulls Cambridgeshire Cats Hertfordshire Cheetahs Ouse Valley Eagles

SFC South	Colchester Gladiators East Kent Mavericks Farnham Knights Solent Thrashers

BAFANL Division 2

NFC North	Aberdeen Roughnecks Carlisle Sentinels Dundee Hurricanes Glasgow Tigers Newcastle Vikings West Coast Trojans

NFC East	Leicester Falcons Lincolnshire Bombers Peterborough Saxons Sandwell Steelers

NFC West	Crewe Railroaders Manchester Titans Staffordshire Surge Walney Terriers

SFC East	Bury Saints Essex Spartans Ipswich Cardinals Kent Exiles London Blitz B

SFC South	Cornish Sharks Hastings Conquerors Portsmouth Dreadnoughts Torbay Trojans

SFC West	Bournemouth Bobcats Bristol Apache Gloucester Centurions London Hornets Oxford Saints Swindon Storm

Defunct/Inactive Teams

BUAFL Premiership

North	Derby Braves Durham Saints Loughborough Students Sheffield Sabres Stirling Clansmen

South	Bath Killer Bees Birmingham Lions Brighton Tsunami Hertfordshire Hurricanes Imperial Immortals

BUAFL Tier 1

Border	Edinburgh Napier Knights Edinburgh Predators Glasgow Tigers Newcastle Raiders Northumbria Mustangs Sunderland Spartans Teesside Cougars West of Scotland Pyros

North West	Bangor Muddogs Keele Crusaders Lancaster Bombers LJMU Fury Manchester Tyrants MMU Eagles Staffordshire Stallions Tarranau Aberystwyth UCLAN Rams

Yorkshire	Bradford Bears Hallam Warriors Huddersfield Hawks Hull Sharks Leeds Celtics Leeds Carnegie Lincoln Colonials York Centurions

East Midlands	Coventry Jets DMU Falcons Leicester Longhorns Northampton Nemesis Nottingham Outlaws NTU Renegades Warwick Wolves Wolverhampton Wildcats Worcester Royals

South West	Bath Spa Bulldogs Bristol Barracuda Cardiff Cobras Exeter Demons FXU Tridents Gloucestershire Gladiators Plymouth Blitz Swansea Titans UWE Bullets

South East	BNU Buccaneers Bournemouth University Bobcats Chichester Spitfires Portsmouth Destroyers Solent Redhawks Southampton Stags Surrey Stingers Sussex Saxons

London	Brunel Burners Greenwich Mariners KCL Regents Kingston Cougars London City Sentinels LSBU Spartans Royal Holloway Bears Reading Knights Westminster Dragons

East	ARU Rhinos Cambridge Pythons Canterbury Chargers Essex Blades Kent Falcons OBU Panthers Oxford Lancers UEA Pirates

National Football League sanctioned events: NFL International Series; American Bowl; London Monarchs; Scottish Claymores

BAFL seasons

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