The first FF-JLT will take place at SPORTCAMPUS SAAR on October 5th and 6th, 2024. 12 regional associations provide a total of 17 teams to determine the best national selection in Germany.
For years, the AFVD federal association has been organizing an annual youth national tournament for the U19 national association teams in tackle football.
At the instigation of AFCV Saar, youth national tournaments for the U16 and U14 age groups will be held for the first time in 2024 with a view to the Olympics. The background is the decision of the IOC (International Olympic Committee) to officially include flag football as a sport in the program of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at its 141st General Assembly in October last year. As a new Olympic sport, the importance of flag football will increase in the future, which is why youth work in flag football in the AFVD should be intensified. The result is the youth national tournament for the flag football teams of the individual regional associations, which is taking place for the first time this weekend.
The importance that the individual regional associations attach to this promotion of young talent is shown by the high number of reports, which is surprising for a premiere. With Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin-Brandenburg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and of course host Saarland, 12 of the 15 state associations organized in the AFVD have at least one U16 Selection reported. There are also the U14 selections from the associations Berlin-Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse.
The U16 tournament, which costs no entry, starts on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The game is played on 4 courts at the SPORTCAMPUS SAAR. The quarter-finals will be played at 5:45 p.m. at the end of the first day. Sunday is reserved for the placement games, starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends with the final at 2:00 p.m.
The U14 tournament is played in a free-for-all mode. The first game will be played on Saturday at 10:45 a.m. The final two games take place on Sunday at 12:45 p.m.
Some games in the tournament will be broadcast live on Sportdeutschland.
Game plan:
Group draw:
Places 1-3 from the first tournament in 2023 are set as group heads AC, places 4+5
was added according to the snake principle, all new teams were drawn. Surrender to it
the following groups:
Group A:
Hamburg (1st), Rhineland-Palatinate, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony
Group B:
Hesse (2nd), NRW (5th), Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg
Group C:
Saarland (3rd), Berlin-Brandenburg (4th), Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Attached is the changed tournament schedule, as Group A now also plays six games.
The tournament starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
9:30am
1st place B1 Hesse – NRW
2nd place B2 Bavaria – Baden-Württemberg
3rd place C1 Saarland – Berlin-Brandenburg
4th place C2 Lower Saxony – Schleswig-Holstein
10:45 am
1st place A1 Hamburg – Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2nd place A2 Rhineland-Palatinate – Saxony
Platz 3
4th place U14 Rhineland-Palatinate – Hesse
12:00 p.m
1st place B3 Baden-Württemberg – Hesse
2nd place B4 NRW – Bavaria
3rd place C3 Schleswig-Holstein – Saarland
4th place C4 Berlin-Brandenburg – Lower Saxony
1:45 p.m
1st place A3 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania-Rhineland-Palatinate
2nd place A4 Saxony – Hamburg
3rd place U14 NRW – Rhineland-Palatinate
4th place U14 Berlin-Brandenburg – Baden-Württemberg
3:00 p.m
1st place B5 Hesse – Bavaria
2nd place B6 NRW – Baden-Württemberg
3rd place C5 Saarland – Lower Saxony
4th place C6 Berlin-Brandenburg – Schleswig-Holstein
4:15 p.m
1st place A5 Rhineland-Palatinate – Hamburg
2nd place A6 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – Saxony
3rd place U14 Baden-Württemberg – NRW
4th place U14 Hesse – Berlin-Brandenburg
In the U16, the two group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals, as well
the two thirds in the group pray.
The third group third and the three fourth group teams play a qualifying round for the
Places 9-12.
5:45 p.m
Place 1 VF 1 1st first – 2nd third
2nd place VF 2 2nd first – 1st third
3rd place VF 3 3rd first – 3rd second
4th place VF 4 1st second – 2nd second
SUNDAY
9:00 a.m
1st place P 9-12 3rd third – 3rd fourth
2nd place P 9-12 1st fourth – 2nd fourth
3rd place U14 Hesse – Baden-Württemberg
4th place U14 Berlin-Brandenburg – NRW
10:15 a.m
1st place HF 1 winner VF 1 – winner VF 4
2nd place HF 2 winner VF 2 – winner VF 3
3rd place Q 5-8 Loser VF 1 – Loser VF 2
4th place Q 5-8 Loser VF 2 – Loser VF 3
11:30 a.m
1st place 11th place Loser P1 9-12 – Loser P2 9-12
2nd place 9th place Winner P1 9-12 – Winner P2 9-12
3rd place 7th place Loser Q1 5-8 – Loser Q2 5-8
4th place U14 Baden-Württemberg – Rhineland-Palatinate
12:45 p.m
1st place 3rd place Loser HF 1 – Loser HF 2
2nd place 5th place Winner Q1 5-8 – Winner Q2 5-8
3rd place U14 Rhineland-Palatinate – Berlin-Brandenburg
4th place U14 NRW – Hesse
2:00 p.m
1st place final U16 winner HF 1 – winner HF 2
Afterwards award ceremony
