2019 Indoor Football League season
2019 IFL season | |
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League | Indoor football |
Duration | February 22 – July 13 |
Number of teams | 10 |
Finals champions | Sioux Falls Storm |
Runners-up | Arizona Rattlers |
The 2019 Indoor Football League season was the eleventh of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The league played this season with ten teams, up from six the previous season, by adding two expansion teams and two teams from Champions Indoor Football.
The top six teams made the IFL playoffs, with the first round consisting of the top two seeds earning byes, the third seed hosting the sixth seed, and the fourth hosting the fifth seed. In the semifinals, the top seed hosted the lower remaining seed and the second hosting the higher-seeded winner from the first round. The semifinal winners met in the
Offseason
In August 2018, the IFL announced the first 2019 expansion team, the
During the previous season, the Cedar Rapids Titans were sold to Roy Choi and the team was rebranded as Cedar Rapids River Kings for the 2019 season.[4] In November 2018, Choi also launched a second 2019 IFL expansion team called the San Diego Strike Force.[5]
Teams
Team | Location | Arena | Head coach |
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Arizona Rattlers | Phoenix, Arizona | Talking Stick Resort Arena | Kevin Guy |
Bismarck Bucks |
Bismarck, North Dakota | Bismarck Event Center | Rod Miller |
Cedar Rapids River Kings | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | U.S. Cellular Center |
Mark Stoute |
Green Bay Blizzard | Green Bay, Wisconsin | Resch Center | Corey Roberson |
Iowa Barnstormers | Des Moines, Iowa | Wells Fargo Arena | Dixie Wooten |
Nebraska Danger | Grand Island, Nebraska | Eihusen Arena | Pig Brown |
Quad City Steamwheelers | Moline, Illinois | TaxSlayer Center |
Cory Ross |
San Diego Strike Force | San Diego, California |
Pechanga Arena | Burt Grossman |
Sioux Falls Storm | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | Denny Sanford Premier Center | Kurtiss Riggs |
Tucson Sugar Skulls | Tucson, Arizona | Tucson Convention Center | Marcus Coleman |
Standings
2019 Indoor Football League | ||||||||
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W | L | PCT | PF | PA | GB | |||
z–Arizona Rattlers | 14 | 0 | 1.000 | 879 | 510 | — | ||
y–Iowa Barnstormers | 12 | 2 | .857 | 716 | 522 | 2.0 | ||
x–Sioux Falls Storm | 11 | 3 | .786 | 738 | 589 | 3.0 | ||
x–Green Bay Blizzard | 9 | 5 | .643 | 590 | 521 | 5.0 | ||
x–Nebraska Danger | 7 | 7 | .500 | 714 | 656 | 7.0 | ||
x–Tucson Sugar Skulls | 7 | 7 | .500 | 728 | 705 | 7.0 | ||
Quad City Steamwheelers | 6 | 8 | .429 | 709 | 650 | 8.0 | ||
Bismarck Bucks
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2 | 12 | .143 | 474 | 751 | 12.0 | ||
Cedar Rapids River Kings | 1 | 13 | .071 | 413 | 730 | 13.0 | ||
San Diego Strike Force | 1 | 13 | .071 | 524 | 851 | 13.0 |
z – clinched regular season title
y – clinched playoff bye
x – clinched playoff spot
Last updated: 06/15/2019[6]
Playoffs
First Round | Semifinals | 2019 United Bowl | ||||||||||||
5 | Nebraska | 45 | ||||||||||||
6 | Tucson | 47 | 1 | Arizona | 62 | |||||||||
3 | Sioux Falls | 50 | 3 | Sioux Falls | 56 | |||||||||
1 | Arizona | 53 | ||||||||||||
3 | Sioux Falls | 52 | ||||||||||||
5 | Nebraska | 45 | 2 | Iowa | 50 | |||||||||
4 | Green Bay | 40 |
References
- ^ "IFL Announces 2019 Schedule". IFL. November 19, 2018. Archived from the original on January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ "TUCSON INDOOR FOOTBALL OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR THE 2019 SEASON". Tucson IFL team. Archived from the original on August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Kosirowski, Ken (October 5, 2018). "Bismarck Bucks moving to IFL, hire new general manager, head coach". MyNDNow. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ "Cedar Rapids Indoor Football League announces new name". KCRG-TV. September 24, 2018.
- ^ "IFL Announces San Diego Expansion Team". OurSportsCentral.com. November 19, 2018.
- ^ "IFL standings". IFL. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
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