AFL may refer to:
Sports
* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
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American Football League (1926)
The first American Football League (AFL), 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 (NFL). Founded by ...
(a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football League (NFL) that competed in 1926
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American Football League (1934)
The 1934 edition of the American Football League was a short-lived professional american football Minor league football (gridiron), minor league with teams based in the American South and American Southwest, Southwest. The first of several minor A ...
, regional borderline-major league that competed in 1934
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American Football League (1936)
The American Football League (AFL) 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 (NFL) throughout its existence.Bob Carroll, ...
(a.k.a. "AFL II"), second rival of the NFL that competed in 1936 and 1937
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American Football League (1938)
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ...
, minor professional American football league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939
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American Football League (1940)
The American Football League, also known retrospectively as the AFL III to distinguish it from earlier organizations of that name, was a professional American football league that operated from 1940–1941. It was created when three teams, the o ...
(a.k.a. "AFL III"), third rival of the NFL that competed in 1940 and 1941
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American Football League (1944)
The Northwest War Industries League and American Football League were two closely related professional football minor leagues based on the West Coast of the United States that played for two nonconsecutive seasons during World War II.
1942 NWI ...
, offshoot of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, played one year before merging back with the PCPFL
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American Football League (1946)
The American Association (AA) was a professional American football minor league based in New York City. Founded in 1936 with teams in New York and New Jersey, the AA extended its reach to Providence, Rhode Island prior to the onset of World War ...
, name adopted by the American Association minor American football league in 1946
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American Football League
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ...
(a.k.a. "AFL IV"), an American football league, active from 1960 to 1970
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Arena Football League
The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ...
, a former American indoor football league
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Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...
, an Australian rules football league
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Alberta Football League, an amateur Canadian football league
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American Fencing League, a league for amateur standard fencing competition in the United States
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Anti-Football League
The Anti-Football League is an Australian organisation that pokes fun at the obsession with Australian rules football. It was founded by Melbourne journalist Keith Dunstan in 1967.
Origins
The Anti-Football League was created in response to a ...
, an organisation that bemoans the cultural saturation of the Australian Football League
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Arizona Fall League
The Arizona Fall League (AFL) is an off-season sports league owned and operated by Major League Baseball (MLB) which operates during the autumn in Arizona, United States, at six different baseball complexes. Arizona Fall League rosters are fill ...
, an American off-season baseball league owned and operated by Major League Baseball
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''AFL'' (video game series), a series of Australian rules football video games
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''AFL'' (Wii), an Australian Rules Football video game for the Nintendo Wii
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Austrian Football League
The Austrian Football League (AFL) is the highest level of American football in Austria founded in 1984.
The Austrian Football League (AFL) has always been considered among the best and strongest leagues in Europe. The league plays by rules based ...
, the highest league of American football in Austria
Aviation
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Aeroflot
PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...
, ICAO airline code AFL
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Alta Floresta Airport, IATA airport code AFL, in Alta Floresta, Brazil
Education
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Ankara Science High School
High School of Science ( tr, Fen Lisesi - FL; after the founding of other science high schools in Turkey also referred as Ankara High School of Science nkara Fen Lisesi - (A)FL is a public boarding high school in Ankara, Turkey with a curriculum ...
, a high school in Ankara, Turkey natively referred to as ''Ankara Fen Liesi''
* Assessment for learning
Science and technology
* American fuzzy lop (fuzzer), a fuzzer
* Astrobiology Field Laboratory, a proposed and subsequently cancelled (unfunded) robotic rover to be sent to planet Mars
* Atrial flutter, a form of cardiac arrhythmia
Other uses
* Adaptive front light, of an automobile
* Abstract family of languages
* Academic Free License, a software license
* Aflac, American insurance company (NYSE ticker: AFL)
* Alberta Federation of Labour
* American Federation of Labor, one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States, and now part of the AFL-CIO
* Anti-Federalist League, a former British political party
* Armed Forces of Liberia
* Australian Freedom League
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