List of leagues of American football

This is a list of current and defunct leagues of American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

and Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

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Current leagues in North America

Professional outdoor leagues: Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

, 1956–

Formed from Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and Western Interprovincial Football Union. National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

, 1920–

Originally American Professional Football Conference, American Professional Football Association (1920-1921) United Football League, 2009–

Professional arena/indoor leagues: Arena Football League, 1987-2008, 2010- (see note) American Professional Football League

American Professional Football League

The American Professional Football League is a Midwestern United States-based indoor football league founded in 2003. The league consists of professional and semi-professional teams, with a few core teams that play a full 10 game schedule and other teams that play partial schedules. At the end of...

, 2003- Continental Indoor Football League, 2006- Indoor Football League

Indoor Football League

The Indoor Football League began in 1999 as an offshoot of the troubled Professional Indoor Football League. Keary Ecklund, the owner of the Green Bay Bombers and Madison Mad Dogs, left the PIFL after its first, financially-troubled, season to start his own league. Unlike the PIFL, the IFL was an...

, 2009- Lone Star Football League

Lone Star Football League

The Lone Star Football League is a regional professional indoor football league set to begin its inaugural season in 2012. All six of the LSFL's charter teams are based in the state of Texas, with five teams coming from the Southern Indoor Football League and two from the Indoor Football...

, 2012 Professional Indoor Football League

Professional Indoor Football League (2012)

The Professional Indoor Football League is a regional professional indoor football league set to begin its inaugural season in 2012. Like the Lone Star Football League, the PIFL is mainly composed of teams formerly from Southern Indoor Football League .Despite the name, this PIFL has no...

, 2012 Ultimate Indoor Football League

Ultimate Indoor Football League

The Ultimate Indoor Football League is a regional professional indoor football league that began its inaugural season on February 18, 2011.-History:...

, 2011-
Note: The Arena Football League technically disbanded in 2009. The current incarnation was the result of several of the AFL's first and second division

AF2

AF2 was the name of the Arena Football League's developmental league; it was founded in 1999 and played its first season in 2000. Like parent AFL, the AF2 played using the same arena football rules and style of play. League seasons ran from April through July with the postseason and ArenaCup...

teams banding together and purchasing the intellectual property rights to the league and reviving it as a new entity.

Semi-professional leagues: Empire Football League, 1969- Mid Continental Football League, 1992- New England Football League, 1994-

Canada North American Football League, 1996- Alberta Football League

Alberta Football League

The Alberta Football League is an amateur Canadian football league. For the 2010 season, 8 teams competed for the league championship...

, 1996- Maritime Football League

Maritime Football League

The Maritime Football League is a men's tackle football league in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The season runs from May until August. The league consists of former CFL, CIS, and High School football players...

, 1996- Northeastern Football Alliance

Northeastern Football Alliance

The Northeastern Football Alliance is an amateur-semiprofessional American football league based mostly in upstate New York. It was formerly known as the New York Amateur Football League, which split off from the Mid Continental Football League in the mid-1990s after the MCFL contracted into the...

, 1997- Rocky Mountain Football League, 1997- Central Football League

Central Football League

There have been at least three competitions in Scotland known as the Central Football LeagueThe first was originally formed in 1896 by five clubs - Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline Athletic, Fair City Athletic, Kirkcaldy and St. Johnstone...

, 1999- Southern States Football League, 2001- Minor League Football Association, 2003- Oklahoma Metro Football League, 2007- Florida Football Alliance, 2007- Big Northeast Football Federation 2007- Gridiron Developmental Football League 2010- Five Star Football League 2010- Stars Football League

Stars Football League

The Stars Football League is a semi-pro American football league operating primarily in the Southern United States. The league is headquartered in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Its inaugural season began June 30, 2011 with two teams; the league phased two more teams into the schedule over the course of...

, 2011–

Collegiate and amateur leagues: Texas Sixman Football League

Texas Sixman Football League

The Texas Sixman Football League is a complex-based amateur six-man football league based in San Antonio, Texas. The league comprises eight teams, all of which play their games at River City Christian School....

, 1999- Canadian Junior Football League

Canadian Junior Football League

The Canadian Junior Football League is a national amateur Canadian football league consisting of 19 teams playing in six provinces across Canada. The teams compete annually for the Canadian Bowl...

, 1890- National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

, 1906- National Junior College Athletic Association

National Junior College Athletic Association

The National Junior College Athletic Association , founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States. It is held as Divisions and Regions. The current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions.-History:The idea for the NJCAA was...

, 1938- National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...

, 1940- National Capital Amateur Football Association, 1955- Canadian Interuniversity Sport

CIS football

Twenty-six universities across Canada compete in football under the auspices of Canadian Interuniversity Sport . The teams are divided into four conferences, drawing from the four regional associations of the CIS: Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, Quebec...

, 1961- Quebec Junior Football League

Quebec Junior Football League

The Quebec Junior Football League operated from 1970 to the present, as a successor to the Quebec Juvenile Football League. It began competition as a conference of the Canadian Junior Football League from which it eventually withdrew. Upon withdrawal from the CJFL, the QJFL incorporated teams from...

, 1970- Canadian Colleges Athletic Association

Canadian Colleges Athletic Association

The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association is the national governing body for organized sports at colleges in Canada. It was formed in 1974. The CCAA hosts nine annual national championships. The CCAA's name in French is l'Association canadienne du sport collégial .Its equivalent body for...

, 1974- - ONEFA National Student Organization of American Football - Collegiate

Women's leagues: Women's Professional Football League

Women's Professional Football League

The Women's Professional Football League is the original and longest operating women's professional American football league in the United States. Now with teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota...

, 1999-2007 National Women's Football Association

National Women's Football Association

The National Women's Football Association was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in...

, 2000-2008 Independent Women's Football League

Independent Women's Football League

The Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000, and began play in 2001.IWFL founders began with the goal to establish a quality women's football league that would be respected as the top level of women's tackle football in the world....

, 2000- Women's Football League

Women's Football League

The Women's Football League was a small women's American football team that began playing in 2002. Its last season was in 2007. It was composed of three teams, one in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina, the Jacksonville Dixie Blues, who now play in the Women's...

, 2002-2007 Lingerie Football League

Lingerie Football League

The Lingerie Football League is a women's 7-on-7 tackle American football league, created in 2009, with games played in the fall and winter at NBA, NFL, NHL and MLS arenas and stadiums. The league was founded by Mitch Mortaza...

, 2009- Women's Football Alliance

Women's Football Alliance

The Women's Football Alliance is a full-contact Women's American football league which began play in the spring of 2009. They have now completed three full seasons and grew to over 60 teams slated for the 2011 season. The women play 11 person tackle football games with rules that basically mirror...

, 2009- Women's Spring Football League

Women's Spring Football League

The Women's Spring Football League is a full contact Women's American football league which began play in 2010. Five teams played the WSFL's 2010 exhibition schedule, with twelve more joining for their first full season in 2011, and five more for 2012. Three of the league's original 5 have since...

, 2010-

Historical leagues in North America

Major outdoor leagues: National Football League (1902)

National Football League (1902)

The National Football League was the first attempt at forming a national professional football league in 1902. The league has no ties with the modern National Football League. In fact the league was only composed of teams from Pennsylvania, which was hardly "national". Two of the teams were based...

and the World Series of Pro Football, 1902–1903 Ohio League

Ohio League

The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1903 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship . As the name implied, its teams were based in Ohio...

, 1903-1919⁶ New York Pro Football League

New York Pro Football League

The New York Pro Football League was a professional American football league active in the 1910s and based in upstate New York, primarily Western New York. Between 1920 and 1921, the league's best teams were absorbed into the National Football League, though none survive in that league today...

, 1916-1920⁶ All-America Football Conference

All-America Football Conference

The All-America Football Conference was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League from 1946 to 1949. One of the NFL's most formidable challengers, the AAFC attracted many of the nation's best players, and introduced many lasting innovations...

, 1946-1949¹ American Football League, 1926

American Football League (1926)

The first American Football League , sometimes called AFL I, AFLG, or the Grange League, was a professional American football league that operated in 1926. It was the first major competitor to the National Football League. Founded by C. C...

, 1936-1937

American Football League (1936)

Sometimes called AFL II, the second American Football League was a professional American football league that operated in 1936 and 1937. The AFL operated in direct competition with the more established National Football League throughout its existence...

, 1940-1941

American Football League (1940)

American Football League, also known as the AFL III to distinguish it from earlier organizations of that name, was a major professional American football league that operated from 1940-1941...

, and 1960-1969

American Football League

The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...

² (all unrelated, four separate leagues) World Football League

World Football League

The World Football League was a short-lived gridiron football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The...

, 1974–1975 United States Football League

United States Football League

The United States Football League was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1987. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a traditional autumn/winter schedule was set to commence before league operations ceased.The USFL was conceived in...

, 1983–1985 XFL

XFL

The XFL was a professional American football league that played for one season in 2001. The league was founded by Vince McMahon, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of WWE...

, 2001

Minor outdoor leagues American Football League

American Football League (1934)

The 1934 edition of the American Football League was a short-lived minor professional football league with teams based in the American South and Southwest. The first of several minor leagues with the same name, the 1934 was also one of the first involving teams not located in the American Midwest...

, 1934 Midwest Football League, 1935–1937, became American Professional Football Association

American Football League (1938)

The Midwest Football League was a minor professional American football league that existed from 1935 to 1940. Originally comprising teams from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, the league eventually expanded its reach to include teams from Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and California to...

in 1938, American Football League in 1939 Dixie League

Dixie League (football)

The Dixie League was a professional American football league founded in 1936 as the South Atlantic Football Association, with six charter member teams in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D. C.. Like the American Association , its popularity rivaled that of the established National Football League...

, 1936-1947 - originally South Atlantic Football Association American Association

American Association (football)

The American Association was a professional American football league based in New York City. Founded in 1936 as a minor league with teams in New York and New Jersey, the AA extended its reach to Providence, Rhode Island prior to the onset of World War II...

1936-1941/American Football League 1946-1950³ American Football League

American Football League (1938)

, 1938-1939⁴ Pacific Coast Professional Football League

Pacific Coast Professional Football League

The Pacific Coast Professional Football League , also known as the Pacific Coast Football League and Pacific Coast League was a professional American football league based in California, USA, and competed from 1940 through 1948 in sports...

, 1940–1948 American Football League

American Football League (1944)

The Northwest War Industries League, later renamed the American Football League, was a professional football league based on the West Coast of the United States that played for two nonconsecutive seasons during World War II....

, 1944⁵ United Football League, 1961–1964 Atlantic Coast Football League

Atlantic Coast Football League

The Atlantic Coast Football League was a minor football league that operated from 1962 to 1973. Until 1969, many of its franchises had working agreements with NFL and AFL teams to serve as farm clubs. The league paid a base salary of $100 per game and had 36 players on each active roster.For the...

, 1962–1971, 1973 Continental Football League

Continental Football League

The Continental Football League was a professional minor American football league that operated in North America from 1965 through 1969. It was established following the collapse of the original United Football League, and hoped to become the major force in professional football outside of the...

, 1965–1969 North American Football League, 1965–1966 Seaboard Football League

Seaboard Football League

The Seaboard Football League was a minor American football league that operated from 1971 to 1974. It folded after the 1974 season as a result of the founding of the World Football League, which deprived the league of talent....

, 1971–1974 American Football Association, 1979–1982 International Football League, 1984 Professional Spring Football League

Professional Spring Football League

The Professional Spring Football League was an outdoor football league slated to begin in 1992. The league had a preview show on SportsChannel America in late 1991/early 1992, laying out the ten teams that would play. The league was founded by Vincent Sette, a computer sales executive...

, 1992 Regional Football League

Regional Football League

The Regional Football League was an American football league formed to be the self-styled "major league of spring football." The RFL season was designed for spring-summer play with the weekend prior to the Fourth of July designated as the annual date for its championship game.The inaugural season...

, 1999 International Football Federation

International Football Federation

The International Football Federation was a proposed professional American football league. It had intended to launch in spring 2000, but folded while still in its preliminary stages...

, 2000 Spring Football League

Spring Football League

The Spring Football League was a professional American football that existed for only part of one mini-season in 2000. Founded by several ex-NFL players such as Eric Dickerson, Drew Pearson, Bo Jackson, and Tony Dorsett, the SFL planned to use the four game mini-season to test cities, fans,...

, 2000

¹: Two teams now in NFL
²: Agreed to merger with the NFL in 1966, with merger completed in 1970
³: American Association suspended operations for duration of U.S. involvement in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

; in 1946 the AA was renamed American Football League
⁴: Known as the American Professional Football Association in 1938; renamed American Football League in 1939; dissolution after 1939 season caused by formation of 1940-1941 AFL major league
⁵: Merged with PCPFL in 1945
⁶: Informal league, direct predecessor to the NFL

Indoor leagues
American Indoor Football Association, 2005-2010 (partially merged into Southern Indoor Football League) Arenafootball2

AF2

(af2), 2000–2009 (assets also acquired in the same transaction noted above) Professional Indoor Football League

Professional Indoor Football League

The Professional Indoor Football League was the second league to successfully play indoor football as a paid pro-league sport, after the Arena Football League. Since the AFL had a patent given in 1990 on the gameplay of "Arena Football" , the PIFL played with mostly the same rules, but without the...

, 1998-2000 (Bought out by Af2 in 2001) Indoor Football League, 1999-2000 (Bought out by Af2 in 2001;not related to the Indoor Football League that began play in 2009) Indoor Professional Football League

Indoor Professional Football League

The Indoor Professional Football League was the new incarnation of the Professional Indoor Football League , which started in 1998. Two of its teams left the league and their owner, Kerry Ecklund, founded the Indoor Football League in 1999...

, 1999–2001 National Indoor Football League

National Indoor Football League

National Indoor Football League was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, af2, however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL...

, 2001–2007 Intense Football League

Intense Football League

The Intense Football League was a professional indoor football league that initially began operations in 2004. Its focus was in Texas, but was notable for being the first professional football league to place a franchise in Alaska.-History:...

, 2004-2008 (merged into current incarnation of the Indoor Football League) United Indoor Football

United Indoor Football

United Indoor Football was a United States indoor football league that started in 2005. Ten owners from the National Indoor Football League, including one expansion and two from arenafootball2 took their franchises and formed their own league...

, 2005-2008 (merged into current incarnation of the Indoor Football League) Eastern Indoor Football League

Eastern Indoor Football League

The Eastern Indoor Football League was an extremely short-lived Indoor American football league that comprised teams located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Play under the auspices of the league began in 2007 amongst four new teams: the 3 Rivers Rats , Mahoning Valley HitMen,...

, 2007 World Indoor Football League

World Indoor Football League (2007)

The World Indoor Football League was an indoor football league founded by Harry Pierce, owner of the Rome Renegades and Raleigh Rebels of the American Indoor Football League...

, 2007 Southern Indoor Football League

Southern Indoor Football League

The Southern Indoor Football League was an indoor football league based in the Southern and Eastern United States. The most recent incarnation of the league was a consolidation of an earlier league of the same name that was formed by Thom Hager along with Dan Blum, Robert Winfrey and Dan Ryan in...

, 2008-2011 (divided into Lone Star Football League and current Professional Indoor Football League)

Women's leagues Women's American Football League

Women's American Football League

The Women's American Football League was a women's football league that was formed in 2001. After disbanding, the teams merged with the Women's Affiliated Football Conference , the Independent Women's Football League and the American Football Women's League , itself now disbanded.-Teams:*Arizona...

, formed 2001, became the AFWL in 2002 American Football Women's League

American Football Women's League

The American Football Women's League which debuted on May 15, 2002, was one of the first women's football leagues formed, originally using the name WAFL, or Women's American Football League in 2001...

(AFWL), 2002 Women's Football Association, 2002

Current American Football minor and semi professional leagues outside of North America

Central and South America
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

: - FAA Football Americano Argentina - CAFL Commonwealth American Football League - AFAB Associação de Futebol Americano do Brasil - LBFA Liga Brasileira de Futebol Americano

Liga Brasileira de Futebol Americano

The Liga Brasileira de Futebol Americano is the highest level of American Football in Brazil. It was created by 8 teams which played the Torneio Touchdown ....

- Torneio Touchdown Torneio Touchdown - FEDFACH Federación Deportiva Nacional de Fútbol Americano de Chile - UFL Uruguay Football League - FCFA Federación Costarricense de Futbol Americano

Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

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- EFL European Football League

European Football League

The European Football League is a European Cup style tournament for European American Football teams affiliated to EFAF...

- AFL Austrian Football League

Austrian Football League

The Austrian Football League is the elite league of American football in Austria. The league was founded in 1984 and plays by the rules of the NCAA.-History:...

- BFL Belgian Football League

Belgian Football League

The Belgian american Football League is the professional sports league for American football in Belgium. The league currently consists of fourteen teams from Belgian cities and regions and one team from Luxembourg. The league is divided into two conferences — the Flemish american Football League ...

- CFL Croatian Football League - CLAF Česká Liga Amerického Fotbalu - DAFF Danish American Football Federation - VL Vaahteraliiga

Vaahteraliiga

The Vaahteraliiga is the highest level of American football in Finland played under American Football Association of Finland. The winner of the Vaahteraliiga is the Finnish champion. The Vaahteraliiga season is played in summer, with a schedule usually from May to September.The first season of the...

- Championnat Élite - GFL German Football League

German Football League

The German Football League is the elite league for American football in Germany. Playing rules are based on those of the American NCAA....

- MAFL Magyarországi Amerikai Futballcsapatok Ligája - IAFL Irish American Football League

Irish American Football League

The Irish American Football League is a fully kitted American football league in Ireland. Founded in 1984, it consists of 14 teams, with 2 having joined the league in 2010. The league generally runs from March through to August, ending with two teams competing for the Shamrock Bowl...

- IFL Italian Football League

Italian Football League

Italian Football League is an American football league in Italy.-History:It was founded in 2008, taking over previous league's significance...

- AFAM Associatia de Fotbal American - AFBN American Football Bond Nederland

American Football Bond Nederland

The AFBN is the governing body for American Football in the Netherlands. The AFBN was founded in 2001 after the merger of the rival leagues Nederlandse American Football Federatie and American Football League Nederland .-Nederlandse American Football Federatie :The Nederlandse American Football...

- NAFF Norway American Football Federation

Norway American Football Federation

The Norway American Football Federation is the largest American football league in Norway, consisting of eleven teams from Norwegian cities and universities. The league is divided into two levels of competition and four age categories: Senior, Under 19, Under 16, and Under 13...

- Southside Football League

Southside Football League

The Southside Football League is an American football league in Norway.-Current SFL Affiliates:*Arendal Panthers*Arendal Wildcats*Ganndal Giants*Kristiansand Raiders*Lyngdal Snakes*Setesdalen Cowboys*Stavanger Eagles*Søgne Stallions...

- PLFA Polish American Football League

Polish American Football League

The Polish American Football League or shortly PLFA is a structured system for the american football competitions in Poland founded in 2006 by Polish federation PZFA. Since 2008 season, PLFA is divided into two leagues between which there is promotion and relegation...

- LPFA Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Americano - Romanian Championship of American Football

Romanian Championship of American Football

The Romanian Championship of American Football is the only organized league of American football in Romania.-History:...

- UAFR Union of American Football of Russia - SLAF Slovenská Liga Amerického Futbalu - SNFL Slovenian National Football League - NLS Nacionalna Liga Srbije - LNFA Liga Nacional de Fútbol Americano

LNFA

Liga Nacional de Fútbol Americano is the name of the top American football league which operates in Spain. It was founded in 1995 after the merge of several previous Spanish competitions....

- Superserien - NLA Nationalliga A

Nationalliga A

National League A is a professional ice hockey league in Switzerland. It is the top tier of the Swiss hockey league system and of the two-tier National League...

- NSFL Non Professional Swiss Romand Americain Football League

Non Professional Swiss Romand Americain Football League

The Non Professional Swiss Romand Americain Football League is a Swiss American Football League. In 1982 Cursio Caravati and Massimo Monti created the SFL . The first team to see the day was the Lugano Seagulls...

- TAFL Turkish American Football League - FAFU Federation American Football of Ukraine - BAFACL BAFA Community Leagues

BAFA Community Leagues

The BAFA National Leagues are the primary American football competition in England, Scotland and Wales. They were formed by the British American Football Association in 2010 to coordinate contact football and flag football across all age ranges...

, 2010- - BUAFL British Universities American Football League

British Universities American Football League

-2009-10 Challenge Trophy results:-2010 league MVPs:League MVP: David Saul Offensive MVP: Tristan Varney Defensive MVP: Ed Butcher...

, 2007-/

Croatia/

Hungary/

Serbia/

Slovenia/

Slovakia Central Europe

Central Europe

Central Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...

/South-Eastern Europe - CEFL Central European Football League

Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

: - Israeli Football League

Israeli Football League

The Israel Football League was founded in the Summer of 2005 by a group of Israelis, led by Mr. Ofri Becker, who wanted to play tackle American football. The first season, played without pads or an official governing body, began in the Fall of 2005...

- EFLI Elite Football League of India

Elite Football League of India

The Elite Football League of India is a proposed men's professional American football league in India. When play begins in late 2012, there will be ten teams, located in various cities across India...

- X-League

X-League

The X-League is a professional American football league in Japan. It was founded in 1971 as the Japan American Football League. It changed its name to the X-league in 1997. There are four divisions between which there is promotion and relegation. Teams in the four-tier league are split into...

, 1996- - Tokyo Football League, 1977?-1991 (Became the UFL in 1991) - Urban Football League, 1991- - Japan Private Football Federation, 1978- - Korea American Football Association - SAFA Seoul American Football Association - ABP Arena Ball Philippines - FAFA Flag and American Football Association - BFFL Beijing Flag Football League - HKFFA Hong Kong Flag Football Association Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

- TAFFA Taiwan American Flag Football Association - IFFA Indonesian Flag Football Association - MAFFA Malaysia Flag Football Association

Oceania
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

: - Gridiron Australia

Gridiron Australia

Gridiron Australia is the governing body of American football in Australia. It is an approved sporting association under federal government regulations and is a member of the International Federation of American Football . The organisation was formed in 1996.Gridiron Australia oversees the...

- ACT Gridiron

ACT Gridiron

ACT Gridiron or ACTG is the governing body for gridiron in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ACT Gridiron currently has six teams. The season culminates with the grand final, known as the Capital Bowl....

- NSW Gridiron Football League - Gridiron Queensland

Gridiron Queensland

Gridiron Queensland is the governing body for gridiron in the state of Queensland, Australia. There are currently eight Division One teams registered in the league.Finalists of the league participate in the Sun Bowl....

- South Australian Gridiron Association

South Australian Gridiron Association

The Gridiron Association of South Australia , Gridiron SA, or GASA is the governing body for gridiron in the state of South Australia, Australia. There are currently five Division One teams registered in the league.The Association has had 3 main venues they have used for their games...

- Gridiron Victoria

Gridiron Victoria

Gridiron Victoria is the governing body for American Football in the State of Victoria, Australia. Formed in 1997, Gridiron Victoria was an amalgamation of the two existing governing bodies of the time: the Victoria Gridiron Football League and the Gridiron Association of Victoria.-Clubs:* Bay...

- Gridiron West

Gridiron West

Gridiron West is the governing body for gridiron in the state of Western Australia, Australia. There are currently eight Division One Senior teams and five under 18 Junior teams registered in the league.-Members:*Claremont Jets...

- New Zealand American Football Association - Gridiron New Zealand - American Football Wellington

American Football Wellington

American Football Wellington, abbreviated AFW, is the governing body for American Football in Wellington, New Zealand. Formally known as the American Football Southern Conference , it was officially established in 1996 to govern the sport of American football in the Wellington and greater lower...

Defunct American football minor leagues around the world

Netherlands/

Spain/

United Kingdom NFL Europa 1995-2007/

United Kingdom/

Spain/

United States/

Canada World League of American Football

World League of American Football

The World League of American Football was founded in 1990 with support from the National Football League to play professional American football in North America, Europe and later possibly Asia...

, 1991–1992/

Netherlands//

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Finland/

Italy Football League of Europe

Football League of Europe

The Football League of Europe was an European semi-professional American football league. It was founded in 1994, renamed 1995 in American Football League of Europe and dissolved after the 1995 season...

, 1994-1995 Icelandic Society for American Football

Icelandic Society for American Football

The Icelandic Society for American Football was formed when the first three teams appeared on the Icelandic sports scene in 1988. In Icelandic, ISAF was known as "Íslensk Samtök um Amerískan Fótbolta". As in most other European countries, the teams appeared after a new TV station started to show...

, 1988–1991 - BAFL British American Football League

British American Football League

The British American Football League was the United Kingdom's primary American Football league from 1998 until 2010. It was formerly known as the British Senior League until 2005. BAFL was the trading name for Gridiron Football League Ltd incorporated as a Company limited by guarantee....

, 1987-2010 - BCAFL British Collegiate American Football League

British Collegiate American Football League

The British Collegiate American Football League was an American football league consisting of players from various colleges and universities in the United Kingdom.In 2007 it was succeeded by the British Universities American Football League....

, 1985–2007/

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Italy/

Germany/

Spain/

Finland International League of American Football - Intended to begin play in 1990, folded before first game/

Italy/

Spain/

Austria/

Turkey Intercontinental Football League

Intercontinental Football League

The Intercontinental Football League was a proposed semi-professional football league in Europe in the early 1970s.-History:By the early 1970s, the NFL was already looking to promote its product abroad. The league had sent players to tour American military bases and hospitals during the Vietnam war...

- Intended to begin play in 1975, folded before first game/

Canada/

Mexico - Continental Football League

Continental Football League

, 1965-1969

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