AFL may refer to:

Sports

* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues: **

American Football League (1926) The first American Football League (AFL), sometimes called AFL I, AFLG, or the Grange League, was a professional American football league that operated in 1926. It was the first major competitor to the National Football League (NFL). Founded by ...

(a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football League (NFL) that competed in 1926 **

American Football League (1934) The 1934 edition of the American Football League was a short-lived professional american football minor league with teams based in the American South and Southwest. The first of several minor leagues with the same name, the 1934 was also one of ...

, regional borderline-major league that competed in 1934 **

American Football League (1936) The American Football League (AFL) was a professional American football league that operated in 1936 and 1937. The AFL operated in direct competition with the more established National Football League (NFL) throughout its existence.Bob Carroll, ...

(a.k.a. "AFL II"), second rival of the NFL that competed in 1936 and 1937 **

American Football League (1938) The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ...

, minor professional American football league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939 **

American Football League (1940) The American Football League, also known retrospectively as the AFL III to distinguish it from earlier organizations of that name, was a professional American football league that operated from 1940–1941. It was created when three teams, the o ...

(a.k.a. "AFL III"), third rival of the NFL that competed in 1940 and 1941 **

American Football League (1944) The Northwest War Industries League and American Football League were two closely related professional football minor leagues based on the West Coast of the United States that played for two nonconsecutive seasons during World War II. 1942 NWI ...

, offshoot of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, played one year before merging back with the PCPFL ** American Football League (1946), name adopted by the American Association minor American football league in 1946 ** American Football League (a.k.a. "AFL IV"), an American football league, active from 1960 to 1970 *

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ...

, a former American indoor football league * Australian Football League, an Australian rules football league * Alberta Football League, an amateur Canadian football league * American Fencing League, a league for amateur standard fencing competition in the United States *

Anti-Football League The Anti-Football League is an Australian organisation that pokes fun at the obsession with Australian rules football. It was founded by Melbourne journalist Keith Dunstan in 1967. Origins The Anti-Football League was created in response to a ...

, an organisation that bemoans the cultural saturation of the Australian Football League *

Arizona Fall League The Arizona Fall League (AFL) is an off-season sports league owned and operated by Major League Baseball (MLB) which operates during the autumn in Arizona, United States, at six different baseball complexes. Arizona Fall League rosters are fille ...

, an American off-season baseball league owned and operated by Major League Baseball * ''AFL'' (video game series), a series of Australian rules football video games * ''AFL'' (Wii), an Australian Rules Football video game for the Nintendo Wii *

Austrian Football League The Austrian Football League (AFL) is the highest level of American football in Austria founded in 1984. The Austrian Football League (AFL) has always been considered among the best and strongest leagues in Europe. The league plays by rules based ...

, the highest league of American football in Austria

Aviation

* Aeroflot, ICAO airline code AFL * Alta Floresta Airport, IATA airport code AFL, in Alta Floresta, Brazil

Education

* Ankara Science High School, a high school in Ankara, Turkey natively referred to as ''Ankara Fen Liesi'' * Assessment for learning

Science and technology

* American fuzzy lop (fuzzer), a fuzzer *

Astrobiology Field Laboratory The Astrobiology Field Laboratory (AFL) (also Mars Astrobiology Field Laboratory or MAFL) was a proposed NASA unmanned spacecraft that would have conducted a robotic search for life on Mars. This proposed mission, which was not funded, would h ...

, a proposed and subsequently cancelled (unfunded) robotic rover to be sent to planet Mars *

Atrial flutter Atrial flutter (AFL) is a common abnormal heart rhythm that starts in the atrial chambers of the heart. When it first occurs, it is usually associated with a fast heart rate and is classified as a type of supraventricular tachycardia. Atrial f ...

, a form of cardiac arrhythmia

Other uses

Adaptive front light A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, ''headlamp'' is the term for the device itself and ''headlight'' is the term fo ...

, of an automobile * Abstract family of languages *

Academic Free License The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, a former general counsel of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The license grants similar rights to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and Apach ...

, a software license *

Aflac Aflac Inc. (American Family Life Assurance Company) is an American insurance company and is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia. In the U.S., A ...

, American insurance company (NYSE ticker: AFL) *

Alberta Federation of Labour The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is the Alberta provincial trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the condit ...

* American Federation of Labor, one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States, and now part of the AFL-CIO *

Anti-Federalist League The Anti-Federalist League was a small cross-party organisation in the United Kingdom, formed in 1991 to campaign against the Maastricht Treaty. It is mainly remembered now as the forerunner of the UK Independence Party. The main founder of the ...

, a former British political party *

Armed Forces of Liberia The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are the armed forces of the Republic of Liberia. Tracing its origins to a militia that was formed by the first black colonists in what is now Liberia, it was founded as the Liberian Frontier Force in 1908, and r ...

* Australian Freedom League {{Disambiguation