The Atlanta Sharks were a professional indoor football team based in

Loganville, Georgia Loganville is a city in Walton and Gwinnett counties, Georgia, United States. The population was 10,458 at the 2010 census. Loganville is located about east of Atlanta and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. History An early variant name ...

. They were members of

American Indoor Football American Indoor Football (AIF) was a professional indoor football league, one of the several regional professional indoor football leagues in North America. The AIFL began as a regional league with six franchises on the East Coast of the United ...

(AIF) during the 2014 and 2015 seasons. The Sharks joined the AIF in 2013 as an

expansion team An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also ...

, by then owner Betty Chaney-Robinson. The Sharks played all of their games on the road as a travel team.

History

The Sharks were announced as an expansion member of

(AIF) on September 6, 2013. On November 19, 2013, Marcus James was officially named the team's first head coach. In the franchise's first ever game, they were defeated 87-32 by the Cape Fear Heroes. The Sharks started the 2015 season having agreed to play their home games at Creekside Sports Center in

. However, when the Sharks were supposed to host the

Saginaw Sting The Saginaw Sting was a professional Indoor Football team based in Saginaw, Michigan. The team was most recently a member of American Indoor Football (AIF). They began play in 2008 as an expansion team in the Continental Indoor Football League ...

during Week 2 of the season, the game was postponed to Week 10. The Sharks were listed in the 2016 schedule of the

Indoor Football Alliance Supreme Indoor Football (SIF) is an inactive professional indoor football league based in the Southeastern United States. The SIF was originally the creation of the Cape Fear Heroes ownership. During the league's initial launch in 2015, it was ...

but were not included in the alliance's inaugural draft.

Coaches of note

Head coaches

Coaching staff

Statistics and records

Season-by-season results

''Note: The finish, wins, losses, and ties columns list regular season results and exclude any postseason play.''

References

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External links

Official website
Former American Indoor Football teams American football teams established in 2013 American football teams in Georgia (U.S. state)