Bucharest Warriors is an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

team in

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

, founded in 2007 by a group of football fans from Bucharest. They started meeting in parks and other obscure places to fool around together with the Constanța Sharks, it is the first team to have brought the sport in Romania. The team has achieved 1st place in the editions of the

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, 2010 and 2011.

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Because, prior to 2010, there wasn't any federation in the country to organize a national championship, Bucharest Warriors wasn't affiliated to any league and played only friendly games. In 2010, the Bucharest Warriors was invited to its first official competition, the

Central European Football League The Central European Football League (CEFL) is a European organization of American football which hosts two international competitions, CEFL Championship and CEFL Cup. The final game of the CEFL Championship playoffs is dubbed CEFL Bowl. Until t ...

. On April 11, the Warriors hosted Istanbul Cavaliers in a qualification game for the respective competition. Also, one week after the game, Bucharest Warriors has begun their first campaign in an official competition organized by the EFAF, the

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. In the autumn of the same year, together with three other teams from

, the Bucharest Warriors have competed in the first-ever Romanian Championship of American Football. On November 21, 2010, in Bucharest, Bucharest Warriors met Cluj Crusaders, in the Romanian Bowl. The home team won the game, 56–12, becoming the first champion of

. The Bucharest Warriors retained the CNFA title in 2011, after 14–6 and 15–20 against the same opponent from the previous year, Cluj Crusaders. Bucharest Warriors has initiated and trained over 500 persons in American football in Bucharest, and helped various teams to launch in Bucharest and other cities. The club is fully devoted in building American football in Bucharest and Romania and has great initiatives and a great fulfillment of its strategy.

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