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Upcoming season or competition: 2025 Indoor Football League season | |
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| Sport | Indoor American football |
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| Founded | July 22, 2008 |
| First season | 2009 |
| Commissioner | Todd Tryon |
| No. of teams | 14 |
| Country | United States |
| Most recent champion(s) | Arizona Rattlers (2nd title) |
| Most titles | Sioux Falls Storm (7 titles) |
| TV partner(s) | CBS Sports Network |
| Streaming partner(s) | YouTube |
| Official website | goifl |
The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a professional indoor American football league composed of 14 teams, divided equally between the Eastern Conference (EC) and Western Conference (WC). The IFL is the highest professional level of indoor football and the longest continuously running indoor football league in the United States. Each IFL season has a 19-week regular season which runs from the middle of March to the end of July, with each team playing 16 games and having three bye weeks. Following the conclusion of the regular season, four teams from each conference advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament, which culminates in the IFL National Championship, played in late August between the winners of the EC and WC championship games.
The IFL was formed in 2008 when the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football agreed to merge following the conclusion of the 2008 National Indoor Bowl, which pinned the two league's champions against each other. The league has operated continuously under the same name and corporate structure longer than any other current indoor football league. Following the closure of the original Arena Football League in 2019, the IFL became the oldest active professional indoor football league in North America, and can trace its history to 2003.
The Sioux Falls Storm hold the most IFL championships with seven. The reigning league champions are the Arizona Rattlers.
IFL players earn US$250–500 (before taxes) per game played,[1][2] with a $25 bonus given to players on the winning team each week.[3] Additionally some teams provide housing for their players during the season.[4]
The IFL has a player personnel partnership with the UFL, to function as their de facto minor league.[5]
- ^ "IFL: Football's land of hope and dreams". The Gazette. March 1, 2012.
- ^ "Sioux Falls Storm leaving IFL for Champions Indoor Football". Argus Leader. August 30, 2017.
- ^ "Investors wanted: IFL, Sanford Center look for local money for expansion franchise". The Bemidji Pioneer. July 18, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
- ^ "IFL Player Contract" (PDF).
- ^ "XFL & IFL Announce Player Personnel Partnership". www.xfl.com.