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The Major League Football (MLF) is a planned professional Fall American football minor league. The league was set to begin play in 2022 after the announcement of several teams, but made an announcement that they were postponing the start of their inaugural season until 2023 [ 1 ] and later to October 2024.
The first minor leagues period of prosperity or "heyday" [8] started in the 1920s and lasted until the end of World War II.By the 1930s, football was not a fledgling enterprise, but pro football was, as even the National Football League had trouble attracting fans, and was located mostly in the northeastern quarter of the United States.
The minor leagues listed below also include teams outside the United States, with seven in Canada (one in the NBA G League and six in the American Hockey League) and one in Mexico (NBA G League). Triple-A minor league baseball has two leagues, the International League and Pacific Coast League, both affiliated with Major League Baseball.
The minor league concept is a manifestation of the franchise system used in North American sports, whereby the group of major league teams in each sport is fixed for long periods between expansions or other adjustments, which only take place with the consent of the major league owners.
Major League Football was founded in December 2014 with the intention of a being a spring football league in an attempt to fill the void left by minor or development football leagues such as the World Football League, the United States Football League, the XFL and United Football League (all of which lasted less than five years), and the then contemporary Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL).
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Professional American football played in leagues at levels below major league football in the National Football League (NFL) Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
The Gridiron Developmental Football League (GDFL) is a low-level American football minor league [1] [2] based in Memphis, Tennessee, using the franchise model. [3] [4] The GDFL acts as an umbrella group that encompasses teams from across the Contiguous United States. [5] As of April 2023, the league has 29 teams.