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Champions Indoor Football (CIF) was a professional indoor American football minor league [1] created in 2014 out of the merger between the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) and Lone Star Football League (LSFL), plus one team from the Indoor Football League and two expansion teams.
The Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) was an indoor football minor league [1] based along the Midwestern United States region. The league began play in February 2013. In August 2014, the CPIFL and Lone Star Football League (LSFL) completed a merger to form Champions Indoor Football (CIF) and began play in 2015.
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).
Arena football is a variety of gridiron football designed to be played indoors. The game is played on a smaller field than American or Canadian football, designed to fit in the same surface area as a standard North American ice hockey rink, and features between six and eight players for each team playing at any given time depending on the league, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game ...
For the 2023 season, the IFL announced the following rule changes: [5] The Deuce kick rule will now be in effect during the entire game. The ball is considered "live" if the kickoff hits the uprights or goalposts and comes back into the field of play. The 25 second play clock will begin after the ball is spotted.
It is the first postseason title for Wichita’s professional indoor football team since the Force won the Champions Indoor Football championship in 2016.
In the 2005–06 offseason, the league changed its name to the American Indoor Football League, while nine expansion teams entered the league and a tenth (the Rome Renegades) joined from the National Indoor Football League. The 2006 season was marred by the folding of two teams, and the league used semi-pro teams to fill scheduling vacancies.
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