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The league has operated continuously under the same name and corporate structure longer than any other current indoor football league. With the closure of the original Arena Football League in 2019, the IFL is the oldest active professional indoor football league in North America, and can trace its history to 2003 (as the Intense Football League).
The IFL National Championship (formerly the United Bowl) is the Indoor Football League's championship game. It has been played every year since 2009, except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The current champions are the Arizona Rattlers , who won their seventh indoor National Championship, defeating the Massachusetts Pirates .
In the conference championships, the previous winners of round one faced off with the higher seed getting home field advantage. [9] The 2023 IFL National Championship was then between the conference champions with the game being played at the Dollar Loan Center on August 5, 2023.
In 2023, IFL announced a new broadcasting agreement with CBS Sports Network ensuring that the next three IFL National Championship games will air on the network. The deal also allows for additional games to be aired on CBS throughout the agreement. [31]
In the national championship round the Northern Arizona Wranglers won their first title by defeating the Quad City Steamwheelers. In doing so the Wranglers completed a worst to first comeback having won only one game (against the Tucson Sugar Skulls ) the previous season.
The 2021 Indoor Football League season was the thirteenth (and twelfth complete) season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The league played the season with twelve teams, down from thirteen the previous season, by adding one expansion team, one team from the National Arena League, one team from the American Arena League, and four teams going on hiatus.
The Women's Professional Football League operated again between 1999 and 2007. A second league, the Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000. In 2009 were founded the Women's Football Alliance and The X League. In 2010, Katie Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League. [2]
The Rattlers won the game by a score of 50–41. This was the Sioux Falls Storm's seventh consecutive United Bowl appearance [4] and first loss, snapping a 6-game championship streak. It was the Arizona Rattlers' first United Bowl appearance in their first season in the IFL after joining from the Arena Football League.