The Official Website for the Berlin Crocodiles

Australian Football is a highly competitive team sport popular in Australia and new to Germany.

The crocs are looking for new players.

No experience is necessary, we train twice a week and will introduce you to Australian Football. Stay fit, meet great people and travel across Germany for our national compeition.

Our team is made up Australians, German and other nationalities.

We train tuesdays and thursdays
at 6 p.m. in Schillerpark.
(Wedding, 5 min from U-Bahnhof Seestr. U6)

If you are interested in training with the Crocs, write an email or give us a call to confirm that you will come.

Everyone is welcome..

View the Berlin Crocodiles line-up in the player cards

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News

26.7.2010 Crocs Eye Kangas
At the start of the year, few punters would have been brave enough to predict the Crocs winning four on the trot in the recombined AFLG competition for 2010. Not when both Munich and Rheinland have dominated previous seasons so convincingly. But an influx of new talent over the course of the season has seen the Crocs move from a traditionally lower ranked team to one of the toughest in the country. The winning streak that commenced against Munich and continued with convincing victories over Stuttgart and Rheinland extended this Saturday thanks to a crushing 147-7 win over Frankfurt. The travelling Redbacks pulled twelve players together for the trip north to Berlin. But after the opening bounce at rain-softened Schiller Park, it soon became clear the visitors had forgotten to bring any real desire to win. Their lack of fight allowed the home team to steamroll out of the centre and score 42 points in the first quarter of the match that quickly showed signs of becoming a very one-sided affair. The Frankfurters took a full half to even post their first and only goal for the match where few Berlin players were able to stand out, such was the overall skill of the Crocs as a team. Berlin dominated all over the park, shutting down the few attacks the Redbacks had to offer with methodical precision, while keeping the goal umpires busy with goal after goal in attack. In fact, the amount of kicks on goal clearly troubled both the flag wavers, who may or may not have erred when giving the all clear after one or two certain contentious shots went over the too-low goal posts. In the end however, these minor ‘possible’ misjudgments had little effect. It was a record winning margin for the Crocs that briefly put Berlin top of the AFLG table and sends another team in the south a warning signal ahead of the final round of the season:

The Crocs are coming…

13.7.2010 Crocs Too Damn Good
Rheinland arrived in Berlin with the temperature pushing 37 degrees. In that kind of heat, the last thing the Kölners wanted was a hard fight against the on-fire Crocs. But that is exactly what the Berliners delivered once the two squads lined up on Schiller Park’s equally unforgiving surface. With a Berlin Wall of a half-back line resisting everything Köln could throw at it, the Crocs opened the match by chalking up three unanswered goals. It took the Kölners until the second quarter to even notch a single point thanks to this rock solid defense put up by the likes of Dee, Burgo, Adrian, Cowboy and Chopper.

Berlin also dominated in the middle, with some tireless running work provided by Declan, Ben and Troy distributing the ball well to the forwards. Mike returned to the Crocs with a strong all-round performance in the centre half line, slotting away three goals. Jerome and Dov both added two as Berlin showed greater resilience and determination in the sun. But for all the team skills, humungous marks and flowing football, Berlin failed time and time again to put the game beyond the Kölners reach thanks to some woeful kicking in front of goal. Berlin had its defense to thank that the home team was not punished for their inaccuracies up the other end, since Köln was unable to really penetrate into the Crocs forward line the entire game.

By the last quarter, the visitors were already looking worse for wear, trailing on the score board by over thirty points and two men down to injuries. Rheinlands lack of reserves and Berlins physical and tactical supremacy meant the home team was able to run away with it in the end, eventually beating the Kölners by a convincing 52 points and once again making it clear that a game in Berlin this year is no longer a walk in the park of the poet, but a bruising encounter with a team that has got its sights firmly set on securing the capitals first AFLG premiership.

The word is out: Schiller Park is one hard ground.

Score: Berlin Crocodiles 9.18(72) Rheinland Lions 3.2(20)

Goals: Michael Frangos 3.1, Jerome Goerke 2.3, Dov Selby 2.0, Declan McCaffrey 1.2, Jirko Kampa 1.1, Ben Owens 0.3, Tom Mullins 0.2, Dee Pabst 0.1, Marvin Bense 0.1, Steffen Risse 0.1, Till Rautenberg 0.1, Rushed 0.2.

Best: Dee, Chopper, Burgo, Brad, Turkish, Declan, Troy

Highlights:
- Jeorome aka Pickles high flying grabs.
- Rheinlands 1 goal in each of the 2nd, 3rd + 4th quarter.

30.6.2010 The Awsome 9-some!

A lean squad of just nine Berlin players made the six-hour trip for Saturday�s critical away encounter against Stuttgart. A surprisingly low turnout considering the Crocs were fresh off a big upset over Munich and needed a win against the Emus to stay in finals contention.

Seeing the Berlin boys were not going to put up much of a challenge without a few extra players, Stuttgart graciously offered four of their own men and suggested a 12-a-side match on their narrow ground in a display of sportmanship not uncommon to the hospitible Emus.

Then with the opening bounce just minutes away, Berlin received yet another boon when a player from Hamburg appeared on the sidelines asking if he could don a Crocs jersey.

After Berlin had only just scraped together enough players to overcome the automatic eight-man forfeit rule, the Croc�s chances of victory were starting to look a lot rosier than they had at the start of the day. The away team now had 14 players to work with, allowing them two much needed substitutions in the 28 degree heat.

With the player deficit partially evened out, acting captain Declan stepped up to win the toss and elected to kick down field on the Stuttgart �pitch�.

Berlin also won the first centre bounce thanks to the efforts of Steffen, the Stuttgart ring-in playing for the Crocs in the ruck. Comeback kid Pickles was using his ��go-go Gadget arms�� to outmark the big backman, while Wogboy showed his talent in his debut up-forward taking a ripper one-on-one grab. And with the coach booting two in successsion, the boys had the confidence they needed..

Good engine room work by Declan and Ben kept the Crocs in front for the remainder of the quarter, with their running work ably assisted by some reasonably solid defence from Croc�s backmen Chopper, Joker and Cowboy. At the first break, Berlin were up by eight points and looking good.

Courageous Coach Troy�s message to the boys was ��Play your guts out till half-time, then we will reassess��...the boys did exactly that with a blistering second quarter
The boys showed accuracy, pace and superior ball skills to up the ante over Stuttgart with Kebab filled Turk was ripping up the centre, while adding a few special goals down forward, Declan was running his guts out all over the ground, Chopper was playing the game of the season defending the massive forwardman and with Disco scooping up the ball and sweetly connecting a Torpedo, the Crocs posted five goals to half time. At the long break it was Berlin 64, Stuttgart 40.

A rejuvinated Stuttgart took the field in the third, taking advantage of a vacant Crocs� centre to post four quick goals and nearly level the scores by the end of the quarter.

A midfield reshuffle and some �we have�t come this far to lose� talk during the final break saw the Berlin boys take the field with one goal in mind, and that was to rediscover the form of the first two quarters and come away with the points.

Ably assisted in the middle by "it�s all about the past players" Jerome and the indefatigable Dec, Ben returned to the centre after spending the third quarter in the forward line recouperating from a cork. The tactical change reversed the trend back in favour of the Crocs, with the Berliners displaying some excellent arial skills, accurate shots on goal from all angles and the fighting spirit for which the Berlin Crocs are renowned.

There was even a poetry in the closing stages when Steffen the Emu ring-in kicked the Croc�s final goal and his second for the match against his own team. If he was sad, we weren�t. The sweet irony simply iced an even sweeter victory.

Final score:

Berlin: 104
Stuttgart: 77

Goal scorers:

Jerome Goerke: 5
Ben Tiny: 3
Troy: 2 Dov Selby: 4
Steffen: 2
Declan: 1

14.6.2010 München muss nach Hause humpeln
Ausgehoppelt. Nach einer astreinen Leistung der Berlin Crocs, muessen die Kangaroos aus Muenchen nach Hause humpeln. Die Crocs schmiessen alle Zutaten in den Topf, um den 12. Juni 2010 zum Tag der besten Leistung in der Vereinsgeschichte zu machen. Jeder Tackle schmerzhaft, jeder Kick zentimetergenau, jeder Zweikampf gewonnen. Die Crocs habes es Zuhause wieder bewiesen: wer sich in den Schiller Park traut, riskiert eine dicke Lippe. Am besten zu erkennen, als im dritten Viertel ein All-In-Brawl abgehalten wurde. Nur Tony weiss was da im Vorfeld genau passiert ist. Gegen die Mannschaft aus Bayern, die vom Nationalkapitaen Tim Horenburg angefuehrt und vom Berliner Micha Foth verstaerkt wurde, ist Chris Brown erstmalig fuer die Crocs und Petros Stathakos erstmalig in Aussie Rules ueberhaupt aufgelaufen. Conny, Troy und Marvin haben eine exzellente Leistung geboten. Decclan, Ben und Mitch haben fuer die großen Punkte gesorgt. Die Kopfschmerzen der Roos wuchsen von Viertel zu Viertel, so dass am Ende Star-Forward Julien Kann ins Mittelfeld geholt wurde. Es nutzte nix. Die Berlin Crocs waren einfach imponierend:
Berlin Crocodiles 9|8|62
München Kangaroos 7|4|46
Zuschauer: 56

14.6.2010 Ex-Croc in the Tagesspiegel
Last weekend's newspaper brought an articel on Ex-Croc Christopher Jones.

1.6.2010 Crocs Sink Dockers
New coach Troy Pedder has notched up his first win. In a telling display, the crocs showed they can convert training track exercises onto gameday. The Crocs supported their fellow teamates with shepards, bumps and tackles. Most impressive was the Crocs clean posession and ground skills.
Dee took to the field for his comeback game, finding himself with the unsual role further up the ground, but didnt look uncomfortable booting 2 through the big sticks. Man of the match, Declan controlled the centre, grabbing and spoiling anything within reach from ground to clouds, he was an absolute Irish-machine.
Big man Mitch held strong and awaited his chances and with one-legged Tony and Troy sweepin the back, the game was never in doubt. Crocs by 7 goals (despite the big sticks still being illusive).