2025 Prague Lions season

2025 Prague Lions season
General managerUnited States Mason Parker
Head coachUnited States Dave Warner
Home stadiumFK Viktoria Stadion

The 2025 Prague Lions season is the third season of the Prague Lions in the European League of Football for the 2025 season.

Preseason

After finishing the previous season 1-11, Lions signed Dave Warner as head coach for the 2025 season.[1] Warner won the 2014 Rose Bowl and the 2015 Cotton Bowl with Michigan State. In 2024 he was Offensive Coordinator of the Madrid Bravos. Defensive Coordinator is former defensive end James Brooks.[2]

For quartback #1 they signed Javarian Smith from the Hamburg Seas Devils.[3] Other notable signings include WR Willie Patterson, DB Ken Hike Jr., and DB Ja'Len Embry.[4] The Lions although managed to sign some players from the Prague Black Panthers, Austrian Bowl winner 2024.

Regular season

Standings

Pos Team GP W L DIV PF PA DIFF STK Qualification
1 Vienna Vikings C 12 11 1 6–0 463 232 +231 W7
2 E 12 7 5 3–3 357 240 +117 W1
3 Panthers Wrocław E 12 5 7 3–3 372 376 -4 L4
4 Fehérvár Enthroners E 12 1 11 0–6 184 509 −325 L1

Source: europeanleague.football

Schedule

Week Date Opponent[A] Result Record Venue Att. Recap
1 May 18 Vienna Vikings 6.28 0–1 Stadion FK Viktoria Žižkov 1000
2 May 24 Hamburg Sea Devils 13-28 0-2 Stadion FK Viktoria Žižkov 600
3 May 31 at Fehérvár Enthroners 40-0 1–2 First Field, Székesfehervar 1200
4 June 8 at Panthers Wrocław 45-13 2–2 Stadion Olimpijski, Wroclaw 2850
5 bye
6 June 22 Hamburg Sea Devils 19-14 3–2 Stadion Hoheluft, Hamburg 1800
7 June 29 at Frankfurt Galaxy 37-16 4–2 PSD Bank Arena, Frankfurt 6221
8 July 5 at Vienna Vikings 0-34 4–3 Datenpol Arena, Maria Enzersdorf 3827
9 July 13 Panthers Wrocław 37-41 4-4 Stadion FK Viktoria Žižkov 1061
10 July 19 Fehérvár Enthroners 10-6 5–4 Stadion FK Viktoria Žižkov 708
11 July 26 at Helvetic Mercenaries 60-20 6-4 Lidl Arena, Wil 1452
12 bye
13 August 10 Frankfurt Galaxy Stadion FK Viktoria Žižkov
14 August 17 Helvetic Mercenaries Stadion FK Viktoria Žižkov

Source: elfdata.eu

Roster

Quarterbacks
  •   United States Javarian Smith QB

Running backs

  • 11 Czech Republic Adam Žouželka RB
  •   Czech Republic Pavel Juhasz RB

Wide receivers

  •  7 Czech Republic Radim Kalous WR
  • 14 Czech Republic David Lukšan WR
  • 17 Czech Republic Lukáš Kadlec WR
  • 18 Czech Republic Filip Kažmír WR
  • 19 Czech Republic Josef Janota WR
  • 44 Czech Republic Michal Krátký WR
  • 82 Czech Republic Ondřej Chmela WR
  •   United States Willie Patterson WR
  •   Czech Republic Matyas Bily WR

Tight ends

  • 84 Czech Republic Martin Havelka TE
  • 88 Czech Republic Pavel Ševeček TE
Offensive linemen
  • 65 Oliver Ďurč T
  • 69 Czech Republic Jaroslav Hrdlička T
  • 74 Czech Republic Adam Masopust G
  •   United Kingdom Louis Burghes T
  •   United Kingdom Benjamin Burghes OL
  •   Germany Jasper Friis
  •   Brazil Lucas Soares da Silva T

Defensive linemen

  • 43 Czech Republic Marek Daník DE
  • 90 Czech Republic Jan Starý DE
  • 91 Czech Republic Jan Lipták DT
  • 93 Czech Republic Daniel Pohořalý DE
  • 97 Czech Republic Jan Vitvar DT
  •   Czech Republic Jonáš Hlava DL
  • 99 Czech Republic Jakub Smutný DT
Linebackers
  • 23 Czech Republic Jakub Ječný LB
  • 40 Czech Republic Tomáš Pazourek LB
  • 52 Czech Republic Šimon Škrabiš LB
  •   United Kingdom Arthur Kingdom LB
  •   Czech Republic Ondřej Kyloušek LB

Defensive backs

  •  2 United States Ja'Len Embry CB
  •  8 Czech Republic Jan Krs FS
  • 22 Czech Republic Charun Jachjajev CB
  • 24 Slovakia Lukáš Korim DE
  • 26 Czech Republic Štĕpán Švec CB
  • 32 Czech Republic Antonín Kvapil CB
  • 33 Czech Republic Aleš Drhlík FS
  •   United States Ken Hike Jr. DB
  •   Argentina Lautaro Frecha SS
  •   Czech Republic Jakub Rada DB

Special teams

  • 80 Czech Republic Marek Hruboň K/P


Rookies in italics
updated Feb, 22 2025
4 A-import, 6 E-import, 34 homegrown
44 active, 0 practice squad

Notes

  1. ^ Intra-Conference opponents are in italics

References