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Founded: | 2015 | |
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Grounds: | Hamburg, Germany | |
Coordinates: | 53°20′06″N10°00′00″E / 53.335°N 10.000°E | |
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Hamburg GAA is a GAA club in Hamburg, Germany. The club runs Gaelic football sessions at Stadtpark and hurling/camogie at Hochschulsport Hamburg facilities. The club competes in Gaelic Games Europe competitions.
The club was founded in summer 2015. The club crest is made up of Hamburg’s colours (red and blue) and shows a castle with three towers and two Marian stars, which are said to symbolise the fact that Hamburg used to be an archbishopric. [1]
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