Indoor Football League

This article is about the league founded in 2008. For the first league with the name, see Indoor Football League (1999–2000).

Indoor Football League
Upcoming season or competition:
Current sports event 2024 Indoor Football League season
SportArena football
Founded2008
First season2009
CommissionerTodd Tryon[1]
Claim to fameAmerica's longest continuously running indoor football league
No. of teams14
CountryUnited States
Most recent
champion(s)		Arizona Rattlers (2nd title)
Most titlesSioux Falls Storm (7)
TV partner(s)YouTube
CBS Sports Network
Related
competitions		Direct: XFL/UFL, IFL, UIF
Other: AF1, NAL, TAL
Official websitegoifl.com

The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a professional indoor American football league created in 2008 out of the merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football. It has one of the largest number of currently active teams among indoor football leagues. As of the 2024 season, the league consists of 16 teams in two conferences with each team playing 16 games over 19 weeks.

The league has operated continuously under the same name and corporate structure longer than any other current indoor football league. With the closure of the original Arena Football League in 2019, the IFL is the oldest active professional indoor football league in North America, and can trace its history to 2003 (as the Intense Football League).

IFL players earn US$250–500 (before taxes) per game played,[2][3] with a $25 bonus given to players on the winning team each week.[4] Additionally some teams provide housing for their players during the season.[5]

The IFL has a player personnel partnership with the UFL, to function as their de facto minor league.[6]

  1. ^ "IFL Announces Commissioner". IFL. October 10, 2019. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
  2. ^ "IFL: Football's land of hope and dreams". The Gazette. March 1, 2012.
  3. ^ "Sioux Falls Storm leaving IFL for Champions Indoor Football". Argus Leader. August 30, 2017.
  4. ^ "Investors wanted: IFL, Sanford Center look for local money for expansion franchise". The Bemidji Pioneer. July 18, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  5. ^ "IFL Player Contract" (PDF).
  6. ^ "XFL & IFL Announce Player Personnel Partnership". www.xfl.com.