Birmingham Lions

Since a cold and tense affair against Loughborough back on 7th November, the Birmingham Lions have gone from strength to strength. They have gone 8-0 to complete a third consecutive, undefeated regular season under the leadership of head coach Tony Athersmith. This season saw a much more challenging regular season schedule for the Lions, with rival clashes occurring with UWE, Herts and obviously...

This is it, the business end of the season where its win or go home. The Birmingham Lions had earned home-field advantage against Bristol Barracuda by going 8-0 in the regular season, but Bristol came out firing and proved tough opposition for the full 60 minutes. Bristol started off by stopping the Lions’ first drive before completing one long pass over the top to open the scoring for the day....

The Lions successfully navigate the first round of the playoffs and earn a rematch with the UWE Bullets at home on the Metchley pitch on the 28th March. Kick off at...

As of Monday evening, the league has given the originally cancelled game @BNU to Birmingham. This means that as of the beginning of March, the Lions are officially 8-0 and start preparing for a run all the way through the playoffs – to the college bowl in...

Birmingham was officially 6-0 heading into their last scheduled regular season match, due to the BNU match being called off due to the weather. The Lions have met the Wolves 3 times over the last two seasons so knew what they were about. The pitch looked in good condition considering the weather over the last few weeks; however it soon cut up– with the grass between the hashes turning to mud...