Champions Indoor Football (CIF) is a professional

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minor league created in 2014 out of the merger between the

Champions Professional Indoor Football League The Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) was an indoor football minor league based along the Midwestern United States region. The league began play in February 2013. In August 2014, the CPIFL and Lone Star Football League (LSFL) ...

(CPIFL) and

Lone Star Football League The Lone Star Football League (LSFL) was a regional professional indoor football minor league that played three seasons from 2012 to 2014. All of the LSFL's charter teams were based in the state of Texas, with five teams coming from the Southern ...

(LSFL), plus one team from the

Indoor Football League The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a professional indoor American football league created in 2008 out of the merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football. It has one of the largest number of currently active teams am ...

and two expansion teams. Players are paid $75 – $300 per game before taxes with no other benefits.

History

2014

The merger which formed the CIF was announced on August 22, 2014, after it had been rumored that the CPIFL and LSFL had been in discussions of a possible merger since July 31, 2014.

2015

The Gary Dawgs, originally announced as a charter member of the CIF, rebranded as the

Illiana Eagles The Chicago Eagles were a professional Indoor American football, indoor football team and a member of Champions Indoor Football (CIF) that played during the 2016 season. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the Eagles played their home games at the UIC Pav ...

(later the

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) after a change in ownership and delayed their entry into the league until 2016. On February 21, 2015, the new owners of the

New Mexico Stars The New Mexico Stars were a professional indoor football team based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The Stars played their home games at the Santa Ana Star Center. They began play in the Indoor Football League (IFL) during the 2012 season as an e ...

announced that the team would not enter the league as planned after head coach Dominic Bramante resigned two weeks before the scheduled start of training camp. On March 3, the

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-based

Duke City Gladiators The Duke City Gladiators are a professional indoor football team based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a suburb of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They began play in March 2015 as members of the Champions Indoor Football (CIF) league. The Gladiators played ...

announced they were joining the CIF for the 2015 season and would play an abbreviated 11-game schedule as a partial replacement for the New Mexico Stars. At the end of the regular season, the four teams (ordered by seeding) that made the postseason were the Sioux City Bandits, Texas Revolution, Wichita Force, and Amarillo Venom. On Thursday, June 11, Texas defeated Wichita 39–27. Two days later, Sioux City beat Amarillo 83–52. This pitted Texas against Sioux City in

Champions Bowl I Champions Bowl I was the inaugural title game of Champions Indoor Football. It was played on June 20, 2015, at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa. The one-seed Sioux City Bandits defeated the two-seed Texas Revolution by a score of 76 ...

on June 20 in Iowa. It was a highly anticipated event in both

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and the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as the number one offense (Sioux City) faced the top defense (Texas). It was a well-fought game, especially at halftime, as the score was tied 35-35. But a rushing touchdown for eventual Champions Bowl MVP Andrew Prohaska and a Rahn Franklin interception sealed the deal for the Bandits as they defeated the "Revs", 76–61 in front of a raucous crowd of 3,757.

2016

The

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Salina Liberty The Salina Liberty are a professional indoor football team based in Salina, Kansas. They began play in 2016 as members of the Champions Indoor Football (CIF). The team plays their home games at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center. History Indoor f ...

, and

Bloomington Edge The Bloomington Edge was a professional indoor football team based in Bloomington, Illinois. While it was in operation, the team hosted home games at Grossinger Motors Arena. Originally named the Bloomington Extreme, the team was a member of Uni ...

announced their entrance into the league, bringing the total number of teams to 12. The league meetings were on August 19 in

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. Many league changes were announced, including Darlene Jones resigning as commissioner, citing personal health-related reasons. Ricky Bertz was then appointed interim commissioner, with the help of Indoor Football League Hall-of-Famer, Tommy Benizio (who was the IFL's commissioner). Stephanie Tucker also joined Bertz and Benizio. Also announced at that time was the Northern/Southern divisional alignment. Later, on January 11, 2016, Bertz stepped down to focus on his team's sales, and Randy Sanders was named the interim commissioner. The updated alignment had each division with six teams. The top three teams reaching the playoffs and the team with the best record in each division received a bye in the first round. The division leader would then play the winners of the 2 vs. 3 seeds playoff game.

2017

At the end of the 2016 season, the Mesquite Marshals changed their name to the

Dallas Marshals The Dallas Marshals were a member of Champions Indoor Football and based in Dallas, Texas. The Marshals were scheduled to play their home games at the Fair Park Coliseum, but all remaining Marshals games were listed as postponed as of April 21, 2 ...

. Later, the San Angelo Bandits folded but were immediately replaced by an expansion team called the

CenTex Cavalry The CenTex Cavalry were an indoor American football team that played in the 2017 season as a member of Champions Indoor Football (CIF). Based in Belton, Texas, the Cavalry played their home games at the Bell County Expo Center. The Cavalry was ...

out of

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. The CIF continued to expand for the 2017 season by adding the

River City Raiders The River City Raiders (formerly known as the Missouri Monsters and the St. Louis Attack) were a professional indoor football team based in St. Charles, Missouri. They play their home games at Family Arena. As of February 2018 the River City Ra ...

and

West Michigan Ironmen The West Michigan Ironmen are a professional indoor football team based in Muskegon, Michigan (and representing the larger region which also includes Grand Rapids and Holland), the Ironmen play their home games at Mercy Health Arena. The team jo ...

from the recently defunct

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 ...

and two expansion teams in

Kansas City Phantoms The Kansas City Phantoms were a professional indoor American football team based in Independence, Missouri. The Phantoms competed in Champions Indoor Football (CIF) as a member of the league's North Conference. The team was founded in 2016 by Dr. ...

and

Bismarck Bucks The Bismarck Bucks are an indoor American football team based in Bismarck, North Dakota. The Bucks joined Champions Indoor Football (CIF) as an expansion team in 2016, and began play for the 2017 season. The team moved to the Indoor Football Lea ...

. The CIF announced the league would realign from two to four divisions, with two teams each division making the playoffs. In November 2016, the Chicago Eagles announced that they had suspended operations for the 2017 season. Following the Eagles' departure, the River City Raiders left the league, citing the adverse effects on their schedule due to losing a regional opponent, although there had been claims that the Raiders were actually asked to leave due to non-payment of league fees. With the departure of the two teams, the league realigned back into two conferences of seven teams, with four teams per conference making the playoffs. During the league winter meetings, Bertz returned to his former position of interim league commissioner. Sonny Clark of the Texas Revolution was named as director of operations.

2018

On August 16, 2017, the CIF announced the

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as an expansion team for 2018. On August 30, the league announced the addition of the

Sioux Falls Storm The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional indoor football team based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Storm joined the original Indoor Football League as an expansion team in 1999 as the Sioux Falls Cobras, and first took the field for the 2000 ...

from the

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. The

Wichita Falls Nighthawks The Wichita Falls Nighthawks were a professional indoor American football team. They were based in Wichita Falls, Texas. The team was headquartered in Wichita Falls and played its home games at Kay Yeager Coliseum. The Nighthawks first joined the ...

of the IFL also joined on September 12. On the same day the Nighthawks joined, the Bloomington Edge and West Michigan Ironmen left the CIF for the IFL. The CIF apparently then attempted to sue the IFL, Edge, and Ironmen for leaving the CIF after the two teams had already signed league affiliation agreements with the CIF for 2018. The IFL then threatened to sue the CIF, Storm, and Nighthawks in return despite neither former IFL team signing an affiliation agreement with the IFL for 2018. To avoid disputes, the CIF stated they would not schedule either team. The Storm immediately announced that they would return to the IFL and the Nighthawks had to suspend operations. While the CIF did drop the lawsuit against the IFL, it filed for an injunction against the Edge and Ironmen teams from participating in the IFL for breaking the terms of their signed affiliation agreements. A temporary injunction from participation against the two teams was granted on January 31, 2018.

2019

During the 2018 season, it was announced that after a change in ownership, the West Michigan Ironmen would return to the CIF after playing a season in the semi-professional Midwest Professional Indoor Football. The league also added an expansion team called the Oklahoma Flying Aces in

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. During the offseason, the CIF lost the

and

to the IFL. When the 2019 schedule was released, both the

and the

had been removed as members. On May 9, the Texas Revolution folded during the season. At the end of the season, the

won their second consecutive championship and then withdrew from the league, eventually joining the IFL.

2020

The league announced it had partnered with the

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(NAL) to create a new league for the 2020 season under a new identity with two conferences: the CIF and NAL. However, it was announced on October 10 that the deal had been postponed, with both leagues playing their own individual schedules in 2020. The league added the West Texas Warbirds in

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, as an expansion team. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the

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without playing a game.

2021

For the 2021 season, the league added the Wyoming Mustangs in

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, as an expansion team. In August 2020, the CIF announced a schedule, keeping a four-team playoff format but with a 10-game regular season starting March 12, 2021, and that all games in 2021 would be streamed live on

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, officially ending the league's four-year relationship with

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. However, by February 2021, the effects of the pandemic caused the Amarillo Venom and West Texas Warbirds to back out of the season due to a conflicting schedule at their home arena and play an independent regional schedule instead. On April 1, one week prior to their first game of the season, the Oklahoma Flying Aces withdrew from the season citing drastically increased

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insurance and were replaced by a reactivated

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. On April 5, director of operations Todd Walkenhorst was named the new league commissioner, replacing founder Bertz who had been in the position since 2017.

2022

In August 2021, Walkenhorst was replaced as commissioner by Tommy Benizio, the former commissioner of the

. The league announced expansion teams in the

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, and the Topeka Tropics. The league also announced a team in Denver, but it did not make the schedule announced on September 30, 2021, along with the Amarillo Venom, Oklahoma Flying Aces, and West Texas Warbirds. On October 1, the Dodge City Law, which had been a temporary replacement for the Oklahoma Flying Aces, was replaced by an expansion team in Dodge City called the Southwest Kansas Storm. Amarillo and West Texas officially left the league and turned their Lone Star Series from the previous season into the

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(AFA) in November 2021. By the end of 2021, J.R. Bond, the new owner of the Sioux City Bandits and Topeka Tropics, had been named the commissioner of the league. The

Wichita Force The Wichita Force are a professional indoor football team based in Wichita, Kansas, with home games in Wichita Ice Center. The team was founded in 2014 as an expansion franchise in the Champions Indoor Football league for the 2015 season. The Fo ...

were removed from the league in January 2022.

Teams

Map of teams

Former teams

* Amarillo Venom (

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) — Joined from the

(LSFL) in 2015 and were members of the CIF from 2015 to 2020. Played the 2021 pandemic-affected season in the Texas-based Lone Star Series before forming the

(AFA) for the 2022 season. *

(

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) — Played in the CIF in 2017 and 2018 but joined the

for the 2019 season. *

(

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) — Played in the CIF in 2016 and 2017. Rejoined the

for the 2018 season. *

(

) — Played in the CIF in 2017 but suspended operations after one season. Hoped to return for the 2019 season but did not. *

(

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) — Played in the CIF in 2016 but suspended operations after one season with hopes to return for the 2018 season, but did not. *

(

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Mesquite, Texas Mesquite is a suburban city located east of the city of Dallas, Texas, in the United States. Most of the city is located in Dallas County, though a small portion extends into Kaufman County. As of 2019 census estimates, the population was ...

) — Played in the CIF from 2016 until mid-season of 2018, known as the Mesquite Marshals in 2016. *

(

) – Joined from the CPIFL. After receiving a league penalty towards the end of the 2017 season, the team lost home field advantage in the playoffs. With the team under scrutiny for the penalty and not promptly refunding tickets to the lost home game, the Law left the CIF. Returned for 2021 season under new ownership and the transferred roster of the Oklahoma Flying Aces. The Law were replaced by the expansion Southwest Kansas Storm in 2022. *

(

, New Mexico) – Late addition to the CIF in 2015; left for the IFL after winning its second consecutive championship in 2019. *

(

Independence, Missouri Independence is the fifth-largest city in Missouri and the county seat of Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson County. Independence is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro ...

) – Played in the CIF for the 2017 and 2018 season. Removed from team list prior to the 2019 season. *

(

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) — Joined from the LSFL but left the league prior to the start of the 2015 season following the resignation of the team's head coach. The team was most recently a member of the now defunct AIF. * Oklahoma Flying Aces (

) - Played in CIF beginning in 2019 but suspended operations prior to 2021 season. Team assets were subsequently sold in 2022. *

(

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) — Played in the CIF in 2018 but joined the

for the 2019 season. *

(

St. Charles, Missouri Saint Charles (commonly abbreviated St. Charles) is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 65,794 at the 2010 census, making St. Charles the ninth-largest city in Missouri. Situated on t ...

) — Joined from

after the 2016 season. Left the CIF prior to their first season apparently due to non-payment of league fees. However, the Raiders claimed the departure of the Chicago Eagles caused too many adverse effects on their schedule. *

Salina Bombers The Salina Bombers were a professional indoor football team based in Salina, Kansas. The team was founded by Chris Vercher, Jake Leighty and Jake Sharp in 2012 as charter member of the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL). The Bo ...

(

Salina, Kansas Salina is a city in, and the county seat of, Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889. In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory. In 1 ...

) — Joined from the CPIFL. Suspended by the league on May 28, 2015, for failing to meet league obligations with two games left to play. The organization folded later the same day. The two remaining games, one home and one away, were both cancelled. * San Angelo Bandits (

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) — Played in the CIF in 2015 and 2016 after joining from the LSFL. Folded and replaced by the

for 2017. *

(

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 130th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into Lincoln County to the south, which continues up ...

) – Joined from the IFL during the 2017 off-season but they could not join the CIF because of a league dispute. Returned to the IFL. * Texas Revolution (

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) — Joined from the IFL as an inaugural CIF member. Folded during 2019 season. * Topeka Tropics (

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) — Winless team that folded after inaugural 2022 season. *

(

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) — Played in the CIF for the 2017 season after joining from

. Joined the

for the 2018 season, the CIF then filed an injunction to keep them from playing in the IFL for 2018. After a change in ownership, the Ironmen were announced to return to the CIF in 2019, however, they were not listed as members when the 2019 schedule was released. *

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(

) — Joined the CIF for the 2020 season, which was then cancelled due to the

. Played the 2021 pandemic-affected season in the Texas-based Lone Star Series before forming the

(AFA) for the 2022 season. *

(

Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita Falls ( ) is a city in and the seat of government of Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay, and Wichita counties. Accordin ...

) — Joined from the IFL during the 2017 offseason, but they could not join the CIF because of a league dispute. *

(

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) – Joined as an expansion team for the inaugural season of the CIF in 2015. The Force were removed from the league prior to the 2022 season for not meeting league requirements and would join West Texas and Amarillo (who wouldn't end up playing in 2022) in the AFA

Timeline

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Omaha Beef The Omaha Beef is an indoor football team and a charter member of the Champions Indoor Football (CIF) league. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, the Beef play their home games at Liberty First Credit Union Arena in nearby Ralston. History First 13 se ...

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Wyoming Mustangs The Gillette Mustangs (formerly Wyoming Mustangs) is a professional indoor football team based in Gillette, Wyoming. The team was announced as a 2021 expansion team as a member of Champions Indoor Football Champions Indoor Football (CIF) is a ...

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Champions Bowl

When the CPIFL started in 2013, the championship game was known as the "Champions Bowl", so the CIF used the same name for their title game.

References

External links

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