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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).
Indoor Football League, 1999–2000 (Bought out by Af2 in 2001;not related to the Indoor Football League that began play in 2009) Indoor Professional Football League, 1999–2001; Arenafootball2 (af2), 2000–2009 (assets acquired in the same transaction as that noted above for Arena Football League) National Indoor Football League, 2001–2007
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]
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.
The National Arena League (NAL) is a professional indoor football league that began play in 2017. As of the end of the 2024 season, the league consisted of five teams. A team's typical payroll budget is $600,000 per season, [1] but as of the 2022 season, there is no salary cap limit. [2]
The league anticipates expanding in the forthcoming years, including adding two teams for the 2025 season, [8] with hope to expand to 12 teams by 2026. [9] In September, the AL released the 2024 schedule. [10] On October 19, 2023, the Waterloo Woo announced their owners and changed their team name to the Iowa Woo. [11]
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 ...
In August 2023, the league announced it had added the Omaha Beef [1] and Sioux City Bandits [2] from Champions Indoor Football for the 2024 season. On August 22, 2023, the Jacksonville Sharks announced they were joining the Indoor Football League (IFL). [3] The league added the expansion Colorado Spartans, based out of Loveland, Colorado, on ...