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2021
With a very late end-of-summer decision, DoDEA Europe and Pacific resumed fall activities to include football. There was no Spring Football in June, and with one full season of inactivity in 2020, returning coaches were left to ponder what they had "coming back."  Students in many schools provided student-led summer conditioning.  The "new" format, though, disallowed any traveling across borders meaning that teams in England , Italy, and Spain would not be able to compete against German opponents.  Division I would play without Lakenheath, which would be forced to play local teams, including former Div. I opponent Bristol Academy and some six-man ball. In addition, there would be no Div. II "Finals" and would just be a regular season for those schools.  Finals would only occur in Division III and Division I. 

Three weeks prior to the end of the season, European AD (Kathy Clemmons) announced (reported in S&S):

 

There will be no DODEA-Europe Division II football champion this season, athletic director Kathlene Clemmons confirmed this week. Instead, the division’s five entries - Aviano, Naples, Vicenza and Sigonella of Italy and Spain-based Rota - will play out the final three weekends of their regular-season schedule in whatever fashion participating squads are able. Aviano and Sigonella lack the necessary roster size to compete in conventional 11-man football, Clemmons said. As such, games involving those two schools will be played under the six-man rules currently in place at DODEA-Europe’s Division III level. That includes their games against Naples, Rota and Vicenza, even though those schools have the numbers for 11-man football. When those latter three schools play head-to-head, they’ll revert to 11-man ball.

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