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| Sport | Indoor football |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| Ceased | 2013 |
| Director | Ted Adams |
| President | Ralph Adams |
| Country | United States |
| Last champion(s) | Sioux City Bandits |
| Most titles | Kansas Koyotes (6) |
| Related competitions | Champions Professional Indoor Football League Continental Indoor Football League Indoor Football League Ultimate Indoor Football League |
| Official website | [1] |
The American Professional Football League (APFL) was an indoor football league that was founded in 2003. After the 2012 season, most of the teams left to start the Champions Professional Indoor Football League. The league consisted of professional and semi-professional teams, with a few core teams that played a full 10 game schedule and other teams that played partial schedules. At the end of each season, the playoffs were contested between the league's core teams. The first few years of league play were dominated by the Kansas Koyotes, but in later years the league had more parity and more stable members, resulting in the first championship won by another team, the Iowa Blackhawks (in 2009), and the first championship game not involving the Koyotes, when the Iowa Blackhawks defended their championship against the Mid-Missouri Outlaws in the 2010 APFL season. Former Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl champion Clayton Holmes played for the Kansas Koyotes and former Kansas State star QB Jonathan Beasley played for the Wichita Aviators.