2017 Indoor Football League season

2017 IFL season
League Indoor Football League
Sport Indoor Football
Duration February 16, 2017 – June 17, 2017
Regular season
Playoffs
2016 United Bowl Championship

The 2017 Indoor Football League season will be the ninth season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). Playing with ten teams in two conferences spread across the United States, the league's regular season will kick off on February 16, 2017, when the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles host the Nebraska Danger. The regular season is scheduled to end 18 weeks later on June 18, 2017, with the defending league champion Sioux Falls Storm visiting the Iowa Barnstormers and the Wichita Falls Nighthawks visiting the Nebraska Danger. The playoffs will be held in three rounds, with the top seed in each conference receiving a first-round bye as the second and third seeds face each other in the conference semifinal (both division winners will have automatic bids, and the third seed will be a wild card), with the winner of that game facing the top seed in a conference championship game followed by the winners of those games meeting in the United Bowl.[1]

Teams

For 2017, the IFL will maintain its two-conference, no-divisions format, with each of the ten teams playing 16 games during the 18-week regular season. The Billings Wolves and Tri-Cities Fever announced their suspension of operations for the 2017 season, maintaining hope of a return for 2018.[2][3] In their place, the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles (owned by Project FANchise, with fans controlling every aspect of the team) were accepted into the IFL as an expansion team,[4] and the Arizona Rattlers will join the IFL after having played the last 24 seasons in the Arena Football League.[5]

Team Location Arena Capacity Founded Joined Head Coach
United Conference
Cedar Rapids Titans Cedar Rapids, Iowa U.S. Cellular Center 6,900 2012 2012 Marvin McNutt
Green Bay Blizzard Green Bay, Wisconsin Resch Center 8,600 2003 2010 Chris Williams
Iowa Barnstormers Des Moines, Iowa Wells Fargo Arena 15,181 1995 2015 Dixie Wooten
Sioux Falls Storm Sioux Falls, South Dakota Denny Sanford Premier Center 10,678 2000 2009 Kurtiss Riggs
Wichita Falls Nighthawks Wichita Falls, Texas Kay Yeager Coliseum 7,380 2013 2015 Billy Back
Intense Conference
Arizona Rattlers Phoenix, Arizona Talking Stick Resort Arena 15,505 1992 2017 Kevin Guy
Colorado Crush Loveland, Colorado Budweiser Events Center 5,289 2007 2009 Jose Jefferson
Nebraska Danger Grand Island, Nebraska Eihusen Arena 6,000 2011 2011 Hurtis Chinn
Salt Lake Screaming Eagles West Valley City, Utah Maverik Center 10,000 2016 2017 William McCarthy
Spokane Empire Spokane, Washington Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena 10,771 2006 2016 Adam Shackleford

Expansion

On April 21, 2016, the IFL announced the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles would join the league for the 2017 season. The Screaming Eagles will play their home games at Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah.[6]

Standings

2017 Intense Conference
W L T PCT PF PA DIV GB STK
Arizona Rattlers 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Colorado Crush 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Nebraska Danger 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Salt Lake Screaming Eagles 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Spokane Empire 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
2017 United Conference
W L T PCT PF PA DIV GB STK
Cedar Rapids Titans 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Green Bay Blizzard 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Iowa Barnstormers 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Sioux Falls Storm 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --
Wichita Falls Nighthawks 0 0 0 – 0 0 0-0 0 --

Playoffs

         
                           
         
             
             
       
           
           
     

References

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