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The following is a list of Arena Football League (AFL) teams. The AFL was a professional indoor American football league based in the United States . The AFL started play with the 1987 season , featuring the Chicago Bruisers , the Denver Dynamite , the Pittsburgh Gladiators and the Washington Commandos .
It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL) until the AFL closed in 2019.
News, scores, standings, statistics, games and more. Anything you've ever wanted to know about the AFL.
The original Arena Football League, created in 1981 and founded in 1986 by Jim Foster, had previously existed in two interrelated incarnations between 1987 and 2008, and 2010 to 2019.
The following is a list of Arena Football League (AFL) teams. The AFL is a professional indoor American football league based in the United States. The AFL started play with the 1987 season, featuring the Chicago Bruisers, the Denver Dynamite, the Pittsburgh Gladiators and the Washington Commandos.
The original Arena Football League was a patented 50-yard indoor football game system developed by a former NFL employee named Jim Foster. Foster first came up with the idea while watching a Major Indoor Soccer League match at Madison Square Garden in 1981.
Ever since former USFL team executive Jim Foster first sketched out the idea for playing football in basketball and hockey arenas more than two decades ago, the indoor game has seen...
