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  Logo NIFLjpg
  Pixels 150px
  Caption National Indoor Football League logo
  Sport Indoor Football
  Founded 2001
  Teams 6
  Champion Fayetteville Guard , now with American Indoor Football Association
  Website wwwniflfootballcom


National Indoor Football League is a Minor League indoor Football league that is based in the United States . For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, Af2 , however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL markets such as Atlanta , Denver , and Los Angeles , and af2 markets such as Fort Myers and Houston .

HISTORY


The NIFL, based in Lafayette, Louisiana , was founded by Carolyn Shiver. The league started operations in 2001, with many teams coming from Indoor Football League being bought the previous year and folding operations. In 2002, the league added in the teams from the Indoor Professional Football League . 2003 was the most successful year for the league as 24 teams played a complete schedule, with no cancellations.

While there have been problems, mainly with expansion teams, the well-run teams success easily outweighed the league's problems. Unfortunately, the league's problems started to show after this point. Before the 2005 season, nine teams left the league to form United Indoor Football . That same year though, the Intense Football League ceased operations and four teams from there joined the league. Those teams however, left the league before the 2006 season started.

The 2006 season, was the most chaotic for the league to that point. Ten expansion teams were added to the league, but nine of them had problems that reflected badly on the league. The most notable situation was the owner of the Montgomery Maulers firing the entire team over pay issues, which got covered in Sports Illustrated and ESPN. None of the ten expansion teams returned to the league for the next season.

After the 2006 season, more than half the league's franchises left for other indoor leagues. In addition to the WIFL , teams left for UIF , the Af2 , and the AIFA . The NIFL started play in 2007 with 5 franchises from the 2006 and 19 expansion teams.


2008

For 2008, the league plans on reviving the 16 league-owned expansion teams, this time with a new management group to operate the teams. Some of the teams have been sold to outside owners. The league also plans on playing games outdoors. {Link without Title}


CURRENT TEAMS


Atlantic Conference



Pacific Conference



FORMER TEAMS


Teams that left the NIFL to join (or plan to join) another league



Defunct teams/failed expansion



INDOOR BOWL GAMES



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