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2022 (2 years old)
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Lidl Arena Wil
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Wil, Switzerland
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European League of Football
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The Helvetic Guards are an American football team based in Zurich, Switzerland. The team starts in the 2023 season in the European League of Football (ELF).
The entry of the newly founded franchise into the professional league was announced on 13 May 2022, during a press conference to open the 2022 ELF season by the team's general manager Toni Zöller. Together with co-owner Mukadder Erdönmez and others they established the first ELF franchise in Switzerland.
On 26 August 2022, the team announced Norm Chow as the head coach for the European League of Football 2023 season.
On 30 October 2022 the front office announced that they will play their home games in the Lidl Arena in Wil, Switzerland, about 25 miles (40km) eastern of Zürich.
On 2 December 2022, the team signed Colin Hill to be their starting quarterback. They added fellow US-American running back and wide receiver Silas Nacita on 17 December 2022.
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Sportpark Bergholz with a total capacity of 6,048. The stadium contains 748 seats and 5,300 standing places.
It is part of the eponymous sports facility, which also contains swimming pools and an ice hockey rink, that was newly built at the site of their old ground in 2013, for the cost of around 11 million Swiss francs. Between 2013 and 2020 it bore the name of its sponsor IGP Pulvertechnik, before reverting to its initial name.
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