Current season, competition or edition: 2024 | |
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| Sport | American Football |
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| Founded | 2010; 13 years ago |
| First season | 2010 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Most recent champion(s) | Central Georgia Technical College (1st title) |
| Most titles | Coppin State, Oakland, Ohio State (tied with 2) |
| Official website | https://www.ncfafootball.org |
The National Club Football Association (NCFA) is an association of collegiate American football teams. It is a member of CollClubSports and manages the NCFA National Championship.
NCFA teams are typically operated by student sports clubs rather than faculty, and do not formally form part of a school's intercollegiate athletic program. The clubs can be based at any post-secondary college or university provided the institution in question agrees to officially recognize football as a club sport. In contrast the Intercollegiate Club Football Federation (ICFF) recognized, in addition to the above, student clubs without official recognition and independent programs that combine students at multiple schools that would otherwise be unable to play college football (the NCFA allows its members to play such independent teams but does not allow those teams to contest for the championship). A number of clubs had membership in both the ICFF and NCFA, especially in the midwest and south (only in the Northeast, where the ICFF's Yankee conference expelled several NCFA member teams in 2015, was there a major distinction between the two; the Yankee conference last played in 2016, with its remaining members either folding or joining the NCFA).
From 2012 through 2015, the NCFA National Championship Game was held at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia, which had also been the site of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. From 2016 through 2019, the NCFA National Championship Game was held at West Family Stadium on the campus of West Liberty University in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 2021 and 2022, the NCFA National Championship Game was moved to Waynesburg University at John F. Wiley Stadium. After one season at UPMC Graham Field in 2023, the title game is scheduled to once again be played at Waynesburg University in 2024.
The 2020 Fall season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
- ^ Sanderson, Sandy (2020-07-21). "NCFA Fall Season Cancelled due to COVID-19 | NCFA". Retrieved 2024-10-02.