LNFA 2014

The LNFA 2014 season was the 20th season of top-tier American football in Spain.

As in the previous season, the teams were divided into two categories, renamed Serie A and Serie B, with promotion and relegation between both divisions.

The 2013-14 season started on November 6, with the first game of the Spanish Cup, and finished on June 15, with the LNFA Bowl game.^[1]

L'Hospitalet Pioners are the defending champions, but lost to Badalona Dracs in the semifinals. Dracs ended the season winning their sixth title.

Spanish Cup

Seven teams entered the competition. L'Hospitalet Pioners won the title for the fifth time in a row and ninth overall.^[2]

Wild card

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

24 November – Las Rozas

17 November – Las Rozas

Las Rozas Black Demons

13

6 November – Santurtzi

Las Rozas Black Demons

21

Badalona Dracs

31

7 December – Badalona

Coyotes Santurtzi

6

Valencia Giants

17

Badalona Dracs

27

Las Rozas Black Demons

12

23 November – Rivas-Vaciamadrid

L'Hospitalet Pioners

31

16 November – Rivas-Vaciamadrid

Rivas Osos

8

Rivas Osos

22

L'Hospitalet Pioners

15

Valencia Firebats

20

LNFA Serie A

Location of teams in LNFA 2014

Six teams entered the LNFA Serie A, the top-tier level of American football in Spain. L'Hospitalet Pioners, Rivas Osos, Valencia Firebats, Rivas Osos and Badalona Dracs repeated from last year. Granada Lions were promoted from last year LNFA Serie B.

Regular season

Legend
The four top teams will qualify for the championship play-offs
The fifth place will compete in the promotion/relegation play-off
The last team will be relegated to the LNFA Serie B

Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	Dif	Head-to-head
Badalona Dracs	10	9	1	346	184	+162
Valencia Firebats	10	6	4	219	194	+25	FIR 28–0 OSO OSO 34–15 FIR
Rivas Osos	10	6	4	229	194	+35	FIR 28–0 OSO OSO 34–15 FIR
L'Hospitalet Pioners	10	5	5	264	224	+40
Valencia Giants	10	4	6	187	192	–5
Granada Lions	10	0	10	136	393	–257

	DRA	FIR	GIA	LIO	OSO	PIO
Badalona Dracs		46–8	31–6	41–22	27–21	9–24
Valencia Firebats	20–21		14–6	40–32 OT	28–0	14–29
Valencia Giants	10–42	7–21		41–6	21–11	43–15
Granada Lions	25–54	6–38	0–37		24–28	0–53
Rivas Osos	21–28	34–15	17–10	28–6		41–16
L'Hospitalet Pioners	27–47	13–21	35–6	33–15	19–28

Playoffs

Semifinals May 24–25			LNFA Bowl June 15

1	Badalona Dracs	38

4	L'Hospitalet Pioners	20
			1	Badalona Dracs	24

			2	Valencia Firebats	18
2	Valencia Firebats	22

3	Rivas Osos	12

LNFA Serie B

Bisons

Black Demons

Camioneros

Coyotes

Mariners

Búfals

Hornets

Hurricanes

Imperials

Rookies

Cobras

Ricers

Sharks

Voltors

Location of teams in LNFA Serie B 2014

Yellow: North Group

Green: East Group

Red: South Group

14 teams entered the LNFA Serie B, the second level of American football in Spain. They were divided in three conferences.

Eight teams qualified to the promotion playoffs, where the three group winners had the three first seeds.

The four worst teams in the regular season played to avoid the relegation to the new Serie C, which will be created in 2015. Alicante Sharks and Sueca Ricers were relegated to Serie C.^[3]

Regular season

Legend
The champions of each group were the top seeded in the promotion play-offs
Five teams qualified for the play-offs
The four worst teams played the relegation play-offs

North Group

Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	Dif
Las Rozas Black Demons	8	7	1	208	59	+149
Camioneros Coslada	8	6	2	149	68	+81
Gijón Mariners	8	4	4	169	109	+60
Santurtzi Coyotes	8	3	5	114	100	+14
Cantabria Bisons	8	0	8	27	331	–304

	BIS	BLA	CAM	COY	MAR
Cantabria Bisons		0–32	7–26	6–49	12–51
Las Rozas Black Demons	42–0		18–6	20–0	35–6
Camioneros Coslada	39–0	14–12		34–9	8–0
Santurtzi Coyotes	30–0	10–21	6–8		10–0
Gijón Mariners	62–2	23–28	16–14	11–0

East Group

Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	Dif	Head-to-head
Imperials Reus	8	7	1	219	49	+170
Barcelona Búfals	8	5	3	125	62	+63	BUF 34–6 ROO ROO 9–0 BUF
Barberà Rookies	8	5	3	96	63	+33	BUF 34–6 ROO ROO 9–0 BUF
Zaragoza Hurricanes	8	2	6	46	146	–100
Zaragoza Hornets	8	1	7	23	189	–166

	BUF	HOR	HUR	IMP	ROO
Barcelona Búfals		10–0	14–0	7–21	34–6
Zaragoza Hornets	0–26		8–14	6–35	9–6
Zaragoza Hurricanes	0–27	16–0		0–48	0–10
Imperials Reus	26–7	61–0	14–10		6–0
Barberà Rookies	9–0	21–0	25–6	19–8

South Group

Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	Dif	Head-to-head
Mallorca Voltors	6	6	0	177	44	+133
Murcia Cobras	6	4	2	195	60	+135
Sueca Ricers	6	1	5	67	136	–69	RIC 44–0 SHA SHA 17–7 RIC
Alicante Sharks	6	1	5	36	235	–199	RIC 44–0 SHA SHA 17–7 RIC

	COB	RIC	SHA	VOL
Murcia Cobras		47–0	61–0	12–26
Sueca Ricers	8–19		44–0	8–13
Alicante Sharks	7–44	17–7		6–25
Mallorca Voltors	19–12	40–0	54–6

Promotion playoffs

Quarterfinals 27 April			Semifinals 11 May			Final 24 May

1	Mallorca Voltors	7

8	Gijón Mariners	0
			1	Mallorca Voltors	13

			5	Murcia Cobras	6
4	Camioneros Coslada	26

5	Murcia Cobras	31
						1	Mallorca Voltors	9

						2	Imperials Reus	7
2	Imperials Reus	20

7	Barberà Rookies	0
			2	Imperials Reus	20

			3	Las Rozas Black Demons	7
3	Las Rozas Black Demons	16

6	Barcelona Búfals	3

Relegation playoffs

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cantabria Bisons	Susp.^[4]	Sueca Ricers	–	–
Zaragoza Hornets	30–19	Alicante Sharks	14–19	16–0

Alicante Sharks and Sueca Ricers are relegated to 2014–15 Serie C.

Promotion/relegation playoffs

The fifth placed team in Serie A played Serie B runner-up. The game took place in Valencia on June 7.^[5] Valencia Giants won the game and will play in next season Serie A.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Valencia Giants	33–14	Imperials Reus

References

↑ "Definidas prácticamente todas las competiciones nacionales" FEFA Web; 7 October 2013
↑ "Pioners onsigue su noveno título de la Copa de España". fefa.es. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
↑ FEFA.es
↑ Suspended due to the not appearance of Sueca Ricers. Cantabria Bisons was named winner of the series.
↑ "VALENCIA GIANTS Y REUS IMPERIALS BUSCAN UN SITIO ENTRE LA ÉLITE". fefa.es (in Spanish). June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014.

External links

FEFA American Football Spanish Federation

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[1] "Definidas prácticamente todas las competiciones nacionales" FEFA Web; 7 October 2013

[2] "Pioners onsigue su noveno título de la Copa de España". fefa.es. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.

[3] FEFA.es

[4] Suspended due to the not appearance of Sueca Ricers. Cantabria Bisons was named winner of the series.

[5] "VALENCIA GIANTS Y REUS IMPERIALS BUSCAN UN SITIO ENTRE LA ÉLITE". fefa.es (in Spanish). June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014.

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