2022 Rhein Fire season

The 2022 Rhein Fire season is the inaugural season of the new Rhein Fire team in the European League of Football from Düsseldorf, Germany. For this season the franchise will play their home games in the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena in Duisburg near to its headquarter.^[1]

2022 Rhein Fire (ELF) season
General manager	Partricia Klemm
Head coach	Jim Tomsula
Home field	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena
Results
Record	7 – 5
Conference place	2nd
Uniform
Rhein Fire (ELF) 2023 →

Preseason

After signing multiple coaches, the newly founded franchise announced the signing of their first player Sven Breidenbach for the 2022 season.^[2] In the following, the team planned to organise an invitational combine for December 18, 2021.^[3] In the 2022 preseason the management announced that former NFL Europe Rhein Fire head coach Jim Tomsula will also be the first head coach of the Rhein Fire in the European league of Football.^[4]

Regular season

Standings

Southern Conference v t e
Pos	Team	GP	W	L	T	CONF	PF	PA	DIFF	STK	Qualification
1	Barcelona Dragons	12	8	4	0	5–1	364	225	139	L2	Advance to playoffs
2	Rhein Fire	12	7	5	0	4–2	346	314	32	L1
3	Cologne Centurions	12	3	9	0	2–4	301	473	−172	W1
4	Istanbul Rams	12	1	11	0	1–5	210	499	−289	L5

Source: europeanleague.football

Schedule

Week	Date	Time (CET)	Opponent^[A]	Result	Record	Venue	TV^[B]^[C]	Recap
1	June 5	15:00	@ Frankfurt Galaxy	W 29 – 26	1 – 0	PSD Bank Arena	ProSieben Maxx, ran.de, Arena4+
2	June 12	15:00	@ Leipzig Kings	W 28 – 17	2 – 0	Paul Greifzu Stadium	ran.de
3	June 19	15:00	Istanbul Rams	W 42 – 12	3 – 0	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena	S Sport, ran.de ProSieben Maxx, Arena4+
4	June 26	15:00	Barcelona Dragons	L 13 – 17	3 – 1	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena	Esport3
5	July 3	15:00	@ Hamburg Sea Devils	L 15 – 42	3 – 2	Stadion Hoheluft	ProSieben MAXX
6	July 10	15:00	Cologne Centurions	W 17 – 3	4 – 2	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena
7	July 17	bye
8	July 24	15:00	Hamburg Sea Devils	L 16 – 40	4 – 3	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena
9	July 30	17:00	@ Barcelona Dragons	L 23 – 33	4 – 4	Estadi Municipal de Reus	Esport3, ran.de
10	August 7	bye
11	August 13	15:00	@ Istanbul Rams	W 50 – 32	5 – 4	Maltepe Hasan Polat Stadium	S Sport
12	August 21	15:00	Frankfurt Galaxy	W 23 – 21	6 – 4	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena
13	August 27	17:00	@ Cologne Centurions	W 59 – 37	7 – 4	Südstadion
14	September 4	15:00	Leipzig Kings	L 31 – 34	7 – 5	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena

Source: europeanleague.football

Roster

Rhein Fire (ELF) roster

	Quarterbacks 11 Matt Adam   12 Rohat Dagdelen   Running backs  5 Julian Zorz   20 Leander Carstensen   21 Jason Aguemon   23 Daniel Rennich   28 Tyrone J. Alexander   43 Patrick Poetsch FB   Wide receivers  6 Timothy Knüttel   10 Harlan Kwofie   16 David Schüler   19 Achim Bah   86 Nathaniel Robitaille   Tight ends 82 Domenik Rofalski   85 Silvan Barelds   87 Florian Eichhorn   88 Marvin Pludra		Offensive linemen 62 Marius Mohr   66 Arnoud Holierhoek   68 Nick Wiens G   74 Philip Weinzierl   75 Vojislav Hahn T   76 Jonathan Peppler G/T   77 Sven Breidenbach T   79 Jan-Niclas Dalbeck T   Defensive linemen 58 Justus Sleiman   90 Remy Feltes   92 Eric Adam   93 Sebastian Fey   94 Felix Siegert   95 Christian Van Horn   96 Tyrese Owusu-Bediako   97 Jason Chikere		Linebackers  4 Lukas Ruoss ILB   32 Niklas Siegert ILB   41 Alexander Sobotta ILB   45 Martin Pinter OLB   4Z Timo Jüngst ILB   54 Maximilian Schmidt OLB   55 Thomas van den Oort OLB   57 Luis Fiedler OLB   59 Emre Zengin MLB   Defensive backs  7 Till Janssen CB    8 Majan Jelvani CB    9 Richard Grooten S   20 Jannik Seibel   22 Omari Williams S   24 Lars Schiefer CB   25 Lasse Meyer CB   34 Fabrizio Umetelli CB   39 Adrian Kiernan S   Special teams  2 Daniel Schuhmacher K   14 Maximilian Eisenhut P/WR				Reserve lists  1 Daniel Duah CB (IRTooltip Injured reserve)     47 Timo Jüngst LB (IRTooltip Injured reserve)     Practice squad 13 Lesar Duran WR   15 Jakob Bojko WR   29 Rene Hanssen CB   69 Joel Plum OL   Rookies in italics Roster updated 05 June 2022 4 A-import, 7 E-import, 48 homegrown 57 active, 2 inactive, 4 practice squad

Transactions

From Cologne Centurions: Till Janssen (November 8, 2021), Alberto Trovato (November 14, 2021), Richard Grooten (November 17, 2021), Daniel Schuhmacher (November 26, 2021), Timo Jüngst (December 17, 2021), Patrick Poetsch (December 21, 2021), Nick Wiens (December 24, 2021), Jannik Seibel (February 4, 2022), Florian Eichhorn (February 10, 2022), Jan-Niclas Dalbeck (February 17, 2022)

From Leipzig Kings: Jason Aguemon (December 30, 2021), Timothy Knüttel (February 27, 2022)

From Stuttgart Surge: Marvin Pludra (February 23, 2022), Domenik Rofalski (February 28, 2022)

Staff

Rhein Fire (ELF) staff

	Front office CEO – Martin Wagner General Manager – Patricia Klemm Head of football operations – (interim) Timur Beckmann Recruiting coordinator & off. quality control – Timur Beckmann Cheer Director & Coach – Nini Pohlmann Head coach Head coach – Jim Tomsula Assistant head coach – Detlef Reck Offensive coaches Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks – Martin Tschurer Assistant offensive coordinator – Lee Taylor Quarterbacks – Steffen Breidenbach Running backs – Oyeniran Olalere Odunayo Ojo Wide receivers – Mario Schulz Tight ends – Detlef Reck Offensive line – Erol Seval Assistant offensive line – Sascha Spils			Defensive coaches Defensive coordinator – Jim Tomsula Defensive backs/DC assistant – Jörg Mackenthun Assistant defensive backs – Peter Schiefer Linebacker – Detlef Zorn Assistant linebacker – Thomas Innig Defensive line – Erkan Pascal Hohenberg Assistant defensive line – Erkan Tezkol Special teams coaches Special teams coordinator – Jörg Mackenthun Kicking consultant – Stefan Nickel Assistant coaches Coaching fellow – Christian Warzecha Strength and conditioning Head strength and conditioning – Max Döringer Athletic coach – Erkan Tezkol Staff updated 22 May 2022

Notes

1. Intra-Conference games are in bold text
2. All games can also be watched live on ELF Gamepass
3. Viewers in brackets if available

References

1. "So plant Rhein Fire die Saison in Duisburg". Neue Ruhr Zeitung (in German). January 27, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
2. @rheinfire.football (November 5, 2021). "Player signed". Archived from the original on 2021-12-26 – via Instagram.
3. @rheinfire.football (November 23, 2021). "Rhein Fire Combinie". Archived from the original on 2021-12-26 – via Instagram.
4. "Jim Tomsula wird Rhein Fire Headcoach". lokalbüro Düsseldorf (in German). February 12, 2022.