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| • | |- align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"|| Year Founded || 1991|- align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"|| Year Retired || 1998|- align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"|| City || London, England|- align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"|| Team Colors || Red, Royal Blue and White|- align="center"|| Championships || 1 (1991)|}
The London Monarchs were a franchise in NFL Europe and its predecessor league, the World League of American Football (WLAF). The Monarchs played their final season in 1998 as England Monarchs. In 1999, they were replaced by the new Berlin Thunder.
The WLAF operated in 1991 and 1992 and included six U.S. teams, one Canadian team, and three European-based teams, including the Monarchs, that was organised in three divisions (North American West, North American East, and European Divisions). The WLAF suspended operations prior to the 1993 season, but was revived in 1995 as the World League, featuring six European-based teams, again including the Monarchs. The World League was renamed "NFL Europe League" in 1998. This league plays its games in the spring so as not to conflict with the traditional American football season of fall and early winter.
In 1991 and 1992 the Monarchs played their home games at famed Wembley Stadium. In the 1991 season the team won the first World Bowl at Wembley, beating the Barcelona Dragons, the only team to have beaten them in the entire season. In these early days of the World League, Wembley was often full to capacity for Monarchs games, but dwindling interest - even with the advent of a new local rivalry with the Scottish Claymores - forced the team to shift its home ground to White Hart Lane, home of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., when the league resumed play in 1995.
Because the pitch at White Hart Lane is laid out for association football, special dispensation had to be applied for to use a shortened field and it was granted: the pitch at White Hart Lane measured 93 yards. In 1996, the Monarchs were forced to find an alternative venue for their final home game and chose Stamford Bridge, where they would play all of their home games in 1997.
Towards the end of the 1997 season, the WLAF was starting to re-
Source: [wikipedia: london monarchs]
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