2025 ELF season
League	European League of Football
Sport	American football
Duration	May 17, 2025 – September 7, 2025
Number of games	96 + 5 playoff games
Number of teams	16
2025 Championship Game
Date	September 7, 2025
Venue	MHPArena, Stuttgart
Seasons
← 2024 2026 →

The 2025 ELF season is the fifth season of the European League of Football, a professional American football league based in Europe. Sixteen teams from nine different countries will participate. The season starts on May 17, 2025, and will conclude with the ELF Championship Game in the MHPArena Stuttgart, Germany on September 7, 2025.

The 16 teams are divided into four divisions of 4 teams. Each team plays 12 games during the regular season, six in the division and two games versus one from each other division.

On January 29, 2025 the league announced to expand the homegrown territories for multiple teams. Most of each teams' players need to be homegrown, i.e. they need to have started playing football in the same country that the team is based in. Now, players from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine will also be considered homegrown for the Panthers Wrocław, players from Slovakia are considered homegrown for the Prague Lions, and players from Romania and Serbia for the Fehérvár Enthroners. Players from western Northern Italy are considered homegrown for the Helvetic Mercenaries while those from eastern Northern Italy are so for the two Austrian franchises.^[1] The Nordic Storm had already been announced as having Denmark and Sweden as their homegrown territory in September.^[2]

Thunder

Galaxy

Sea Devils

Surge

Centurions

Panthers

Vikings

Raiders

Fire

Enthroners

Mercenaries

Ravens

Lions

Musketeers

Storm

Bravos

2025 European League of Football season (Europe)

Locations of teams competing in the 2025 ELF season.

• North Division
• West Division
• South Division
• East Division

Of the 17 teams from the 2024 season, 15 are competing in 2025, and are joined by one new expansion team: the Nordic Storm. Teams not returning for the new season are the Barcelona Dragons, and the Milano Seamen, the latter on hiatus with plans to return to the league in 2026.

Berlin Thunder will move from the Großes Stadion of Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark whose demolition started after the 2024 season to the adjacent Kleines Stadion which will be expanded with temporary stands. The Helvetic Mercenaries are moving to the Lidl Arena in Wil where the Helvetic Guards played during their only season in 2023. The Hamburg Sea Devils will return to Stadion Hoheluft, after playing home games in different stadiums all over Northern Germany.

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Head Coach	Record 2024
North Division
Berlin Thunder	Berlin	Kleines Stadion, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark	05,000[A]	Jag Bal	5–7
Hamburg Sea Devils	Hamburg	Stadion Hoheluft (5 games)	08,000	Shuan Fatah[4]	2–10
		Volksparkstadion (1 game)	57,000
Nordic Storm	Copenhagen/Søborg	Gladsaxe Stadion	13,507	John Shoop	- new -
Rhein Fire	Duisburg	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena (5 games)	31,500	Jim Tomsula	11–1, Champion
	Düsseldorf	Merkur Spiel-Arena (1 game)[5]	54,600
West Division
Cologne Centurions	Cologne	Südstadion	11,748		6–6
Frankfurt Galaxy	Frankfurt am Main	PSD Bank Arena (4 games)	12,542	Bart Andrus[6]	4–8
	Offenbach am Main	Stadion am Bieberer Berg (2 games)	20,500
Paris Musketeers	Paris/Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine	Stade Bauer	5,600	Jack Del Rio	10–2, Semifinal
Stuttgart Surge	Stuttgart	Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau	11,408	Jordan Neuman	11–1, Semifinal
South Division
Helvetic Mercenaries	Zurich/Wil	Lidl Arena	06,000	Marcus Herford	1–11
Madrid Bravos	Madrid	Estadio Vallehermoso	10,000	Andrew Weidinger	8–4, Wild Card
Munich Ravens	Munich/Unterhaching	Uhlsport Park	15,053	Kendral Ellison	9–3, Wild Card
Raiders Tirol	Innsbruck	Tivoli Stadion Tirol	17,400	Jim Herrmann[7]	8–4
East Division
Fehérvár Enthroners	Székesfehérvár	First Field	04,000	Mark Ridgley	2–10
Prague Lions	Prague	FK Viktoria Stadion	03,000	Dave Warner[8]	1-11
Vienna Vikings	Vienna	Hohe Warte Stadium	05,500	Chris Calaycay	12–0, Final
		Generali Arena	15,014
Panthers Wrocław	Wrocław	Stadion Olimpijski	11,000	Craig Kuligowski[9]	6–6

Source: europeanleague.football

Source: europeanleague.football

Source: europeanleague.football

Source: europeanleague.football

Overall standings
#	Team	Division	W	L	PCT	CONF	PD	STK
Division leaders
1	Vienna Vikings	East	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Stuttgart Surge	West	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Rhein Fire	North	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Munich Ravens	South	0	0	–	0-0	±0
Wild cards
1	Paris Musketeers	West	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Madrid Bravos	South	0	0	–	0-0	±0
Not Qualified for the Playoffs
1	Raiders Tirol	South	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Panthers Wrocław	East	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Cologne Centurions	West	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Berlin Thunder	North	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Frankfurt Galaxy	West	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Hamburg Sea Devils	North	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Fehérvár Enthroners	East	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Helvetic Mercenaries	South	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Prague Lions	East	0	0	–	0-0	±0
1	Nordic Storm	North	0	0	–	0-0	±0

C - Clinched division title

Q - Clinched playoffs

E - Eliminated

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