Amsterdam Admirals

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Year Founded 1995 Home Field Amsterdam ArenA City Amsterdam, Netherlands Team Colors Navy Blue, Orange, and White Head Coach Bart Andrus Championships 1 (2005)

The Amsterdam Admirals is a team in NFL Europe, a league of American football operated in Europe primarily as a developmental league for the National Football League. The Europe League plays their games in Spring as not to compete with the NFL season and with Summer training camp. Most of the players are Americans assigned by the NFL to teams for the springtime season, with the league picking up their living expenses in addition to their salaries, as well as those of their American coaches.

The Admirals were formed in 1995 as part of the NFL's plan to restart the World League of American Football, to be based entirely in Europe. The Admirals were one of three new teams, the others being: the Scottish Claymores based in Edinburgh and the Rhein Fire based in Düsseldorf Germany, to join the old World League's European Division teams: the Barcelona Dragons, the Frankfurt Galaxy, and the London Monarchs.

The Amsterdam Admirals began play at the old Olympisch Stadion, built in 1928 for the Summer Games. They played there for two years until the Amsterdam ArenA was built in 1996.

As of the 2005 season, the Admirals are the only NFL Europe team not located in Germany. The Admirals qualified for the 1995 World Bowl with a 9-1 regular season record, but lost to the Frankfurt Galaxy by a score of 26-22. Ten years later, on their 11th Year of existence, the Admirals won their first World Bowl by defeating the defending champion Berlin Thunder 27-21 in the championship game's 13th edition.

Season-By-Season

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Amsterdam Admirals (World League) 1995 9 1 0 1st League Lost World Bowl III (Galaxy) 1996 5 5 0 3rd League -- Amsterdam Admirals (NFL Europe) 1997 5 5 0 3rd League -- 1998 7 3 0 3rd League -- 1999 4 6 0 4th League -- 2000 4 6 0 4th League -- 2001 4 6 0 4th League -- 2002 4 6 0 5th League -- 2003 4 6 0 5th League -- 2004 5 5 0 3rd League -- 2005 6 4 0 2nd League Won World Bowl XIII 2006 7 3 0 1st League Lost World Bowl XIV (Galaxy) Totals 65 58 0 (including playoffs)

Notable Players

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• Darren Bennett - P (1995)
• Adam Vinatieri - K (1995)
• Jay Fiedler - QB (1997)
• Kurt Warner - QB (1998)
• Shaun Hill - QB (2003)

External links

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• Amsterdam Admirals web site (Dutch)
• NFL Europe: Amsterdam Admirals (English)

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