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The Women's National Football Conference (WNFC) is a semi-pro full-contact Women's American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WNFC had its first game in 2019 with fourteen regular teams and one exhibition team.
The first attempts to formalize women's gridiron football came about during the 1960s when Sid Friedman, an entrepreneur, created the Women's Professional Football League (WPFL). The league's approach was considered exploitative but the league resulted in the creation of a number of teams that later formed the NWFL. [1] [2]
The Women's Professional American Football League (WPFL) was a women's professional American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota Vixens. Fifteen teams nationwide competed for the championship in 2006.
The league was known as the "Women's Spring Football League" from 2009 to 2015. The USWFL played with 11-player and 8-player divisions from 2011 through 2013. In 2014, the league split into two leagues, with the 11-woman division retaining the WSFL name and the 8-woman division taking the name the Women's Eights Football League (W8FL).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. The following is a list of current National Football League franchise owners: Franchise Principal owner Since Ref. Arizona Cardinals Michael Bidwill 1932 Atlanta Falcons Arthur Blank [a] 2002 Baltimore Ravens Steve Bisciotti [a] 2004 Buffalo Bills Terry Pegula 2014 Carolina Panthers ...
The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in exhibition games.
American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [23] 1927–1928; Western Interprovincial Football Union, 1936–1960 [24] United States Football League, 1945 (Never played) Trans-America Football League , 1945 (Never played) World Football League, 1974–1975
A member of the Women's Football Alliance, the Amazons played their home games at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex. The Amazons previously played in the Women's Professional Football League from their inception in 2002 until 2007, the National Women's Football Association in 2008, and the Independent Women's Football League in 2009 and 2010.