American football team
Cavaliers
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«Cavaliers»
Anyone looking for American football under the Cavaliers name in Cleveland will find basketball. The Cavaliers are the city's National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise, founded in 1970. They belong to a different sport and a different franchise from the city's football team.
No professional American football side has ever carried the name, whether in the National Football League (NFL), the American Football League, the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) or the United States Football League. Football is played under the Cavaliers name in only one place: the Virginia Cavaliers, the athletic teams of the University of Virginia, field a team in college football in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Cleveland's professional football belongs to the Browns. They started in 1944 or 1945 as a charter member of the AAFC, a rival league to the NFL.
The Browns took their name from their coach, Paul Brown. It has never been called anything else.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 17 Oct | NFL |
Dragons
H
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27:31 | L |
| 26 Sep | NFL |
Eagles
H
|
17:10 | W |
| 5 Sep | NFL |
Cardinals
H
|
23:21 | W |
| 28 Aug | NFL |
Hilltoppers
A
|
30:27 | W |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 4| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Scored | 97 | 67 | 30 |
| Conceded | 89 | 62 | 27 |
| Average per match | 24.2 | 22.3 | 30.0 |
| Conceded per game | 22.2 | 20.7 | 27.0 |
| Difference | +8 | +5 | +3 |
