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Oakland Panthers original logo. With the scheduled departure of the National Football League's Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas in 2020 and the Golden State Warriors move to San Francisco in the 2019–20 season, on April 17, 2019, it was first reported that Roy Choi was in talks to bring an expansion Indoor Football League (IFL) team to Oakland for the 2020 season.
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).
Its head coach Kurt Bryan was a co-creator of the A-11 offense briefly used in outdoor football. [3] Team president Scott McKibben had previously been chairman of the Oakland Coliseum authority. [4] On November 18, 2024, the AF1 league announced that the Crusaders and Monterrey Kings will sit out the 2025 season and debut in 2026. [5]
The league played the season with 14 teams, up from 11 teams the previous season. The Bay Area Panthers, Quad City Steamwheelers, and San Diego Strike Force, returned from dormancy after electing not to play during the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vegas Knight Hawks joined the league as an expansion team. [1]
United Indoor Football, 2005–2008 (merged into current incarnation of the Indoor Football League) American Indoor Football (AIF), 2005–2010, 2012–2016, 2024; Continental Indoor Football League, 2006–2014; World Indoor Football League, 2007; Southern Indoor Football League, 2008–2011 (teams divided into either the Lone Star Football ...
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The Strike Force is the third indoor team to play in San Diego, after the San Diego Riptide of AF2 (2002–2005) and the San Diego Shockwave of the National Indoor Football League (2007). [6] The team may have planned on being called the San Diego Lightning, as the organization's original email addresses and internal website links used that ...
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 ...