National Indoor Football League

The National Indoor Football League (NIFL) was an indoor American football league founded in 2001 with 22 teams, all of which were in the United States . The NIFL specifically selected the markets that are not covered by the teams of the Arena Football League or its lower division, the af2, as the NIFL was a semi-professional league that wanted to avoid competition. It was dissolved in 2007 after many teams moved to other leagues or were dissolved in the 2005 and 2006 seasons. The headquarters were in Lafayette , Louisiana.

Season schedule and playoffs

The NIFL season ran from the beginning of March to the end of July, a little offset from the AFL and completely outside the NFL season . Each team played 14 games: two against each division competitor and another team from the conference, one game against each team from a different division in their own conference and one game against two teams from the other conference. The eight best teams from each conference contested the playoffs in a knockout system, the winners of each conference competed against each other in the indoor bowl.

Indoor bowl

The final of the NIFL was called the Indoor Bowl and was held annually at the end of the season.

year	winner	loser	Result
2001	Mississippi Fire Dogs	Wyoming Calvary	55-21
2002	Ohio Valley Greyhounds	Billings Outlaws	55-52
2003	Ohio Valley Greyhounds	Utah Warriors	45-37
2004	Lexington Horsemen	Sioux Falls Storm	59-38
2005	Tri-Cities Fever	Rome Renegades	47-31
2006	Billing outlaws	Fayetteville Guard	59-44
2007	San Diego Shockwave	no playoffs