 Berlin won this competition when it defeated the New Yorker Lions 20–17 in the 2014 final.In the GFL the club finished fifth in 2014 and thereby missed out on play-off qualification, repeated in 2015 when it came sixth.The financial situation of the Berlin Adler began to deteriorate during this era, however, the fact that other teams failed to get a license to play in the GFL 1 kept them from being relegated for several years, until they had to face the relegation round after the 2017 season, as fate would have it against the Potsdam Royals.