Independent Indoor Football Alliance
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The Independent Indoor Football Alliance is a class A professional developmental indoor football league based in the state of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. The league played an abbreviated 2009 season punctuated by a number of forfeits. The league grew and had tighter restrictions for 2010 in hopes of better football action. For the 2011 season the IIFA has joined forces with several independent teams. Season tickets can be purchased at the team websites.

2008 teams

  • Kaufman County Crunch - Terrell, Texas
    Terrell, Texas
    Terrell is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States, and a southeastern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 13,606...

     8-3
  • Galveston Thunderstorm - Galveston, Texas
    Galveston, Texas
    Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...

     7-3
  • Corsicana Thunder - Corsicana, Texas
    Corsicana, Texas
    Corsicana is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. It is located on Interstate 45 some fifty-five miles south of downtown Dallas. The population was 24,485 at the 2000 census...

     4-5
  • Collin County Wranglers - Mckinney, Texas
    McKinney, Texas
    McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States, and the second in population to Plano. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 131,117 The Census Bureau listed McKinney as the nation's fastest growing city from 2000 to 2003 and again in...

     4-5
  • DFW Doom - Euless, Texas
    Euless, Texas
    Euless, known as "Tree City USA," is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. Euless is part of the Mid-Cities between Dallas and Fort Worth...

     4-6
  • Bay Area Buccaneers - Pasadena, Texas
    Pasadena, Texas
    Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Harris County, 17th-largest in Texas, and 162nd largest in the United States. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston....

     3-6
  • Spring Bulls - Spring, Texas
    Spring, Texas
    Spring, Texas is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, north of Downtown Houston. The population was 54,298 at the 2010 census...

     3-4

2008 Announced teams That Never Played

These teams were announced by the IIFA at the start of the 2008 season, but never took the field.
  • Harris County Militia - Humble, Texas
    Humble, Texas
    Humble is a city in Harris County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area.As of the 2000 census, the city population was 14,579. The city shares a zip code with the small Houston neighborhood of Bordersville, although people who live in Bordersville still have Humble...

  • Texas Rough Riders - San Antonio, Texas
    San Antonio, Texas
    San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...


2009 Teams

  • North Texas Crunch - Forney, Texas
    Forney, Texas
    Forney is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States and has been named by the Texas legislature as the "Antique Capital of Texas". The population was 5,588 at the 2000 census...

     6-2 (Formerly Kaufman County Crunch)
  • Texas Krush - Dallas, Texas
    Dallas, Texas
    Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

     2-2
  • DFW Doom - Euless, Texas
    Euless, Texas
    Euless, known as "Tree City USA," is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. Euless is part of the Mid-Cities between Dallas and Fort Worth...

     2-4
  • Texas Smash - 1-2
  • Texas Wranglers - Mckinney, Texas
    McKinney, Texas
    McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States, and the second in population to Plano. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 131,117 The Census Bureau listed McKinney as the nation's fastest growing city from 2000 to 2003 and again in...

     3-5

2010 Teams

  • Mid Cities Mustangs - North Richland Hills, Texas
    North Richland Hills, Texas
    North Richland Hills is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 63,343 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth largest city in Tarrant County. In 2006, North Richland Hills was selected as one of the "Top 100 Best Places to live in America"...

     1-4
  • Missouri City Blitz - Houston, Texas
    Houston, Texas
    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

     0-3
  • North Texas Crunch - Southlake, Texas
    Southlake, Texas
    Southlake is a city in northeast Tarrant and southeast Denton counties, Texas. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 26,575. A suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas, Southlake is known for exemplary public schools, Southlake Town Square, and Carroll High School's 7-time state champion football...

     10-1
  • East Texas Drillers - Tyler, Texas
    Tyler, Texas
    Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...

     6-4
  • Texas Krush - North Richland Hills, Texas
    North Richland Hills, Texas
    North Richland Hills is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 63,343 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth largest city in Tarrant County. In 2006, North Richland Hills was selected as one of the "Top 100 Best Places to live in America"...

     3-8
  • Southlake Pirates - Southlake, Texas
    Southlake, Texas
    Southlake is a city in northeast Tarrant and southeast Denton counties, Texas. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 26,575. A suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas, Southlake is known for exemplary public schools, Southlake Town Square, and Carroll High School's 7-time state champion football...

     (Formerly the DFW Doom, now sharing the same arena as the North Texas Crunch) 7-3
  • Oklahoma Titans - Ardmore, Oklahoma
    Ardmore, Oklahoma
    Ardmore is a business, cultural and tourism city in and the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 24,283, while a 2007 estimate has the Ardmore micropolitan statistical area totaling 56,694 residents...

     0-3
  • Texas Wranglers - Allen, Texas
    Allen, Texas
    Allen is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States, a northern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2010 census the city had a total population of 84,246.-Geography:According to the City of Allen, the city has a total area of...

     2-4

2011 Teams

  • Conroe Jaguars - black for 2011
  • Houston Pirates - 3-6
  • North Texas Bronocs - 0-5
  • North Texas Crunch - 6-3
  • East Texas Wranglers - 8-2-1
  • Texas Krush - 3-6
  • Southlake Pirates - 8-1-1
  • Dallas Americans - 0-2


Non League Teams
  • Reno Barons
    Reno Barons
    The Reno Barons are a professional indoor football team that began play in spring 2011. Based in Reno, Nevada, the Barons play their home games at the Reno Events Center....

  • Stockton Wolves
  • Abilene Ruff Riders


Both the Wolves and the Barons played under the banner of the "Western Indoor Football Association," the remains of the American Indoor Football Association's West Division.

League champions

  • 2008 - Kaufman County Crunch (defeated Galveston 52-50 in the championship game, Alliance Bowl I)
  • 2009 - North Texas Crunch (defeated Texas Wranglers 52-12 in Alliance Bowl II)
  • 2010 - North Texas Crunch (defeated Southlake Pirates 10-8 in Alliance Bowl III)
  • 2011 - East Texas Wranglers (defeated Southlake Pirates 40-14 in Alliance Bowl IV)

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