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(LFL) in the

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. It began April 5 and concluded on August 10.

Developments

Shortly after the 2018 season ended, the LFL originally elected to hold the 2019 Legends Cup in

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's capital city of

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."Legends Cup 2019 to be Played in Johannesburg South Africa"
''LFL360.com''. October 5, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018. However, this never took place. In November 2018, defending champion Chicago Bliss head coach Keith Hac and his entire coaching staff resigned in protest of league policies and decisions. Three weeks later the league hired Danville coach JaDae Maguire as a replacement. Maguire did not mesh well with the Bliss and his tenure was short before a new coach, Sidney Lewis, was brought in. In addition to retirements at the end of the previous season, Chicago saw an exodus of many remaining players leaving them with only four returning starters. Chicago would finish the season 0–4, their worst record ever and only their second losing record, and failed to make the playoffs for only the second time ever. On December 21, 2018, Chris Michaelson, who previously served as the head coach of the Seattle Mist, returned to that franchise as head coach once again. He spent the 2018 season serving as offensive coordinator of the upstart

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. For the purpose of rebuilding the Mist franchise to its previous form, Michaelson replaced interim coach Eric Bellamy, who had been named the Mist's interim coach for 2018 after Michelson's supposed retirement in the off-season following a Legends Cup-winning season in 2017. Michaelson previously served as the Mist head coach from 2009 to 2017, leading that franchise to two Legends Cup championship titles. In early 2019, the LFL announced a new broadcast partner in Honduran television network TDTV. On June 19, 2019, the league announced a change in the playoff format. Instead of the two best teams from each conference playing for their respective conference titles, the league would abandon the conference titles and pit the top four teams with the best records in an elimination tournament. The team with the best record would play the team with the fourth best record while the teams with the second and third best records would play one another. The immediate effect of this change mid-season was to scramble the playoff standings; Chicago was immediately statistically eliminated, Omaha, which had needed only a victory over winless Denver, suddenly needed to also defeat Atlanta, and Los Angeles could still make the playoffs if Austin beat Nashville in the regular season finale.

Teams

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

LFL Pro Bowl Eastern Western

Schedule

Regular season

Postseason

Showcase Game

Standings

x - clinched playoff berth

Playoffs

Semifinals were played on August 24, 2019, at

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. Legends Cup 2019 was played on September 7, 2019, at the

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in Kent, Washington, instead of

as originally planned. In the 2018 State of the League address delivered by Commissioner Mitchell Mortaza, the 2020 Legends Cup was expected to be the first of upcoming Legends Cups to be played abroad in international destinations; however, that was scrapped when the league decided not to hold its next season.Mortaza, Mitchell (September 24, 2018)
"LFL, STATE OF THE LEAGUE 2018"
''LFL360.com''. Retrieved December 18, 2018. The schedule on LFLUS.com was updated on June 19, 2019, to show the Legends Cup had been moved. On the same day, the league announced the playoff format would change, with the conference championship title removed. Instead, the top teams from both conference would be ranked 1–4, with 1st facing 4th and 2nd facing 3rd.

Awards

League MVP * Amber Clark - Atlanta Steam * Miriah Lopez - Los Angeles Temptation * Jade Randle - Seattle Mist * Stevi Schnoor - Seattle Mist Offensive Player of the Year * Kassandra Bills - Austin Acoustic * ChrisDell Harris - Austin Acoustic * Miriah Lopez - Los Angeles Temptation * Stevi Schnoor - Seattle Mist Team of the Year * Austin Acoustic * Omaha Heart * Nashville Knights * Seattle Mist Defensive Player of the Year * Alli Alberts - Seattle Mist * Amber Clark - Atlanta Steam * Britney Dowdy - Austic Acoustic * Jade Randle - Seattle Mist Coach of the Year * Dontae Allen / Cale Good - Omaha Heart * Yuri Howard - Nashville Knights * Chris Michaelson - Seattle Mist * Mike Olvera - Austin Acoustic Coaching Staff of the Year * Atlanta Steam * Austin Acoustic * Nashville Knights * Seattle Mist In The Trenches (Line) * Lindsey Burse - Omaha Heart * Britney Dowdy - Austic Acoustic * Lauren Jay - Omaha Heart * Dina Wojowski - Atlanta Steam Rookie of the Year * Lauren Crouch - Omaha Heart * Nicole Hulce - Atlanta Steam * Bre Mosley - Nashville Knights * Emma Vanderheyden - Chicago Bliss Mortaza Award * Jessica Bateman - Austin Acoustic * Lindsi Cash - Los Angeles Temptation * Nicole Curry - Denver Dream * Austina Mellberg - Nashville Knights True 8th Man Award * Jessica Bateman - Austin Acoustic * Mike McGhee - Seattle Mist * Jessica Robinson - Atlanta Steam 2015 LFL Hall of Fame Induction - Danika Brace

Notes

:1. Omaha finished ahead of Nashville in the standings as a result of their 49-25 head-to-head victory on June 1, 2019.

References

External links

Legends Football League - official website
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