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The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional indoor American football league founded in 2023 with their first, and only, season beginning in 2024. The recent AFL took its identity, history, some of the rulebook and some team names from, but is not directly connected to, the previous iteration of the Arena Football League founded by Jim Foster in 1986.
Indoor Football League, 1999–2000 (Bought out by Af2 in 2001;not related to the Indoor Football League that began play in 2009) Indoor Professional Football League, 1999–2001; Arenafootball2 (af2), 2000–2009 (assets acquired in the same transaction as that noted above for Arena Football League) National Indoor Football League, 2001–2007
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).
2004 Beaumont Drillers vs Waco Marshals 2007 San Antonio Steers. The National Indoor Football League (NIFL) was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, AF2, however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL markets such as Atlanta ...
A year after its second shutdown, the Arena Football League trademarks and logo were bought out by Darren Arbet in 2020. Arbet is a former San Jose SaberCats head coach and was the head coach of the Indoor Football League's Bay Area Panthers. The trademark remained inactive until 2022, when a new website was set up. [1]
They are the third indoor team to play at Stockton Arena since the Stockton Lightning of af2 (2006–2009) and the Stockton Wolves (who were independent) (2011) and was preceded by the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League in 2015 for that league's National Conference Championship game and Arena Bowl XXVIII.
Multiple indoor football leagues have folded, including one that had a Sacramento team. The NFL’s World League of American Football folded in the 1990s. The XFL started, folded and restarted ...
The league anticipates expanding in the forthcoming years, including adding two teams for the 2025 season, [8] with hope to expand to 12 teams by 2026. [9] In September, the AL released the 2024 schedule. [10] On October 19, 2023, the Waterloo Woo announced their owners and changed their team name to the Iowa Woo. [11]