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The Massachusetts Pirates are a professional indoor football team based in the Greater Boston area that competes in the Indoor Football League (IFL). The team plays its home games at Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts. [1] The Pirates began play in the 2018 season as a member of the National Arena League (NAL).
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 2024 Indoor Football League season was the sixteenth season of the Indoor Football ... MA: Tsongas Center: 6,003 2017 2021 ... The teams are split into three ...
The Massachusetts Pirates will hold a press conference at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday at Plainridge Park Casino to announce a move to a new home venue, as well as future plans for the organization.
Massachusetts Pirates: 55: 41 Green Bay Blizzard DCU Center [16] March 26 5:05 p.m. CT San Diego Strike Force 47 49: Quad City Steamwheelers: Pechanga Arena [17] March 26 7:05 p.m. CT Bay Area Panthers: 47: 46 Arizona Rattlers SAP Center [18]
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 .
The Raptors were the second indoor football team to play in Everett, following the Everett Hawks of the National Indoor Football League and later the af2 which played from 2005 until 2007. A team called the Everett Destroyers was proposed for the IFL's inaugural 2009 season , but folded before ever playing a single down.
The league was set to play the season with thirteen teams, up from ten the previous season, by adding three expansion teams, one team from Champions Indoor Football, and one team folding. After playing two games, the season was initially postponed on March 12 due to social distancing measures closing venues during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]