The Lake Charles Land Sharks were an indoor football team. They were a charter member of the

National Indoor Football League The National Indoor Football League (NIFL) was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, A ...

(NIFL). They played their home games at the

Sudduth Coliseum Sudduth Coliseum, in the Lake Charles Civic Center, is a 7,450-seat multi-purpose arena in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Located on Lakeshore Drive, it is the main arena of the Lake Charles Civic Center. It is a venue for hosting concerts and sp ...

Lake Charles, Louisiana Lake Charles (French: ''Lac Charles'') is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu ...

. Despite having pretty good success throughout their existence, the team folded after the 2004 season and were replaced by the

Louisiana Swashbucklers The Louisiana Swashbucklers were a professional indoor football team based in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They were formed in 2005 as an expansion member of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) and were originally known as the Southwest Louis ...

Season-by-Season

, - , 2001 , , 7 , , 3 , , 0 , , 2nd South , , Lost Round 1 (

Ohio Valley The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinoi ...

) , - , 2002 , , 13 , , 2 , , 0 , , 1st Atlantic South , , Lost Round 1 ( T. ThunderCats) , - , 2003 , , 13 , , 3 , , 0 , , 1st Atlantic South , , Won Round 1 (

Houma Bayou Bucks The Houma Bayou Bucks was a team in the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). The Bayou Bucks were officially announced as a team on December 19, 2001. The team's first GM was Travis Carrell and their first head coach was Jack Phillips Jr. The ...

)
Lost AC Championship (

) , - , 2004 , , 7 , , 7 , , 0 , , 4th Atlantic South , , -- , - !Totals , , 41 , , 18 , , 0 , colspan="2", (including playoffs)

External links

L.C. Land Sharks' 2001 Stats

L.C. Land Sharks' 2004 Stats
American football teams in Louisiana National Indoor Football League teams Land Sharks American football teams established in 2000 American football teams disestablished in 2004 2000 establishments in Louisiana 2004 disestablishments in Louisiana {{Louisiana-sport-team-stub