Weinheim Longhorns
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| Founded | 1990 |
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| League | Regionalliga Mitte |
| Based in | Weinheim, Germany |
| Arena | Sepp-Herberger-Stadion |
| Colors | Navy Blue and White |
| President | Volker Jacob |
| Head coach | Sven Gloss |
| Manager | Anja Ongari |
| Championships | none |
| Division titles | none |
| Cheerleaders | Wild Bunch/Lucky Stars/Little Big Horns |
| Website | www.weinheim-longhorns.de |
The Weinheim Longhorns are an American football team from Weinheim, Germany. The club's greatest success was promotion to the German Football League in 2006, where it spent four seasons. In this time the club reached the play-offs on three occasions. It is also notable as the team where Markus Kuhn played before going to College in the US and later being drafted in the seventh round by the New York Giants. Kuhn later became the first German born player to score an NFL touchdown.
The club was formed in 1990 as the football department of the TSG Weinheim.
The Longhorns entered league football in 1991, playing in the tier four Verbandsliga Baden-Württemberg. The clubs early years were of limited success, playing in the state leagues of Baden-Württemberg as a mid-table team. Things only improved for the side in 1999 when it won the Oberliga title unbeaten and entered the tier three Regionalliga Mitte for 2000.
Weinheim played in the Regionalliga for the next four seasons, achieving good results and finally won the league in 2004 after another unbeaten season. The club gained entry to the 2nd Bundesliga for 2005 and finished in third place in the southern division in its first year there. The following season, the Longhorns won their division and, after defeating the Munich Cowboys in both promotion round games, earned the right to play in the GFL.
In Germany's highest football league, the club finished fourth in all of its first three seasons, on the same winning percentage each year, and qualified for the play-offs on all three occasions. As the lowest placed southern team in the play-offs it had to encounter the best team from the north on each of those three occasions and the Braunschweig Lions, Kiel Baltic Hurricanes and Berlin Adler were to strong an opposition to overcome in the first round but the Longhorns achieved respectable results in each encounter.
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