The West Texas Wildcatters were a professional indoor football team based in
Odessa, Texas. The Wildcatters played their home games at the
Ector County Coliseum.
The Wildcatters began play in 2014 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 ...
in the
Lone Star Football League (LSFL). They had planned on joining the CIF in 2014 during the merger of the LSFL and
Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL), but were left out of the league.
The Wildcatters were the second indoor football team to call Odessa home, following the
West Texas Roughnecks (originally the Odessa Roughnecks) which played in
Intense Football League in 2004 and again from 2006 to 2008, the
National Indoor Football League in 2005, 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 amon ...
from 2009 to 2011 and the LSFL from 2012 to 2013 before folding after they could not find a new owner.
After the 2014 season the Lone Star Football League merged with the
Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) to become the
Champions Indoor Football (CIF). The Venom and Bandits became part of the new league while the Sol joined the
X-League Indoor Football
X-League Indoor Football (X-League) was a professional indoor football minor league that began play in 2014. The league was co-chaired by Michael Mink and Kacee Smith. On September 19, 2015, the league announced a merger with the future "North ...
(XLIF), but the Wildcatters have made no announcement of which league they would join and are now considered defunct.
Roster
Head coaches
Season-by-season results
References
External links
West Texas Wildcatters official website
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Lone Star Football League teams
Defunct American football teams in Texas
Sports in Odessa, Texas
American football teams established in 2013
American football teams disestablished in 2014
2013 establishments in Texas
2014 disestablishments in Texas