The Cape Fear Thunder is a football team in the

Women's Spring Football League The United States Women's Football League (USWFL) is a full-contact women's American football minor league that opened with exhibition play in 2010 and subsequently played its first regular season in 2011.https://www.uswfl.net/copy-of-schedule- ...

(WSFL) based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Home games are played at John P. Daskyll Stadium on the campus of Reid Ross High School. The Thunder began in 2003 as the Fayetteville Thunder in the Women's Football League. After a one-season hiatus, the team returned to action as the Cape Fear Thunder. In 2005 and 2006, the Thunder played in the

Women's Professional Football League The Women's Professional American Football League (WPFL) was a women's professional American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Mic ...

. From 2007 to 2009, the Thunder competed in the Independent Women's Football League. 2011 saw the team moving to a new women's football league, the Women's Spring Football League. The Cape Fear Thunder captured the WSFL's 2011 8's Division National Championship after a 4-2-1 record for the season. In 2014, the Cape Fear Thunder defeated the West Virginia Wildfire 34–26 to capture their second WSFL 8s division championship. In 2016, the Thunder moved to the Ladies American Football League.

Season-By-Season

, - , colspan="6" align="center" , Fayetteville Thunder (WFL) , - , 2003 , , 3 , , 3 , , 0 , , 2nd League , , -- , - , colspan="6" align="center" , Cape Fear Thunder (WPFL) , - , 2005 , , 2 , , 5 , , 0 , , 4th National East , , -- , - , 2006 , , 1 , , 1 , , 0 , , ''X-Team'' , , -- , - , colspan="6" align="center" , Cape Fear Thunder (IWFL) , - , 2007 , , 1 , , 7 , , 0 , , 3rd Eastern Mid-Atlantic , , -- , - , 2008 , , 2 , , 6 , , 0 , , 3rd Southern South Atlantic , , -- , - , 2009 , , 1 , , 7 , , 0 , , 19th League , , -- , - , colspan="6" align="center" , Cape Fear Thunder (WSFL) , - , 2011 , , 4 , , 2 , , 1 , , 1st League , , Declared W8FL Champions (based on regular season record) , - , 2012 , , 3 , , 8 , , 0 , , 2nd Eastern , , -- , - , 2013 , , 1 , , 4 , , 0 , , 3rd League , , -- , - , 2014 , , 3 , , 5 , , 0 , , 4th League , , Won League Semifinal ( Nashville)
Won W8FL Championship (

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) , - , 2015 , , 2 , , 2 , , 0 , , 2nd League , , Lost WSFL Championship ( New York) , - , colspan="6" align="center" , Cape Fear Thunder (LAFL) , - , 2016 , , 1 , , 4 , , 0 , , 4th League , , -- , - , Totals , , 24 , , 54 , , 1 , colspan="2",

2012 Season Schedule

References

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