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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).
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]
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.
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 ...
Cedar Rapids, who joined the league in 2023, is scheduled to play nine games this year. The Riverkings, led by Daron Clark, are currently 1-1. Ryan Hansen covers local government and crime for the ...
Somehow, football can be an afterthought with everything going on, but it's what ties everything together. The 6-on-6 action fits the space on a 50-yard field, half the size of a traditional setup.
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 ...