Lehigh Valley Steelhawks

Lehigh Valley Steelhawks
Current season
Established 2010
Folded 2019
Played in Allentown, Pennsylvania
at the PPL Center
LVSteelhawks.com
League/conference affiliations
Indoor Football League (2011–2012)
  • United Conference (2011–2012)
    • Atlantic Division (2011)

Professional Indoor Football League (2013–2015)

  • National Conference (2014)

American Indoor Football (2016)

  • Northern Division (2016)
National Arena League (2017–2018)
Current uniform
Team colorsBlack, Vegas gold, white
     
MascotTalon
Personnel
Owner(s)Glenn Clark
PresidentGlenn Clark
General managerMichael Clark
Head coachDanton Barto
Team history
  • Lehigh Valley Steelhawks (2011–2018)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (1)
PIFL: 2014
Division championships (0)
Playoff appearances (6)
IFL: 2012
PIFL: 2013, 2014, 2015
AIF: 2016
NAL: 2017
Home arena(s)

The Lehigh Valley Steelhawks were a professional indoor football team based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Steelhawks began play as an expansion team in the Indoor Football League (IFL) in 2011.

The Steelhawks moved to the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) in 2013, where they made their only championship game appearance, losing PIFL Cup III to the Nashville Venom. The team joined American Indoor Football for the 2016 season after the PIFL folded, which lasted one season before that league also folded. They joined the National Arena League for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. The Steelhawks were the Lehigh Valley's second indoor football team, following the also-defunct Lehigh Valley Outlawz of the Continental Indoor Football League (2005–2008). The Outlawz played their home games at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania until 2014. In 2015, they began playing their home games at the PPL Center on Hamilton Street in Allentown.

Steelhawks owner Glenn Clark sought to sell the team following the 2018 season. After failing to find new ownership for the Steelhawks, the team suspended operations before the 2019 season.[1] The "hiatus" became permanent when no suitable buyer was ever found.

  1. ^ "Lehigh Valley Steelhawks to go on hiatus for 2019 arena football season". The Morning Call. February 14, 2019.