The American Football Women's League (AFWL) is a defunct league that had eight teams.
It debuted on May 15, 2002, was one of the first women's
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
leagues formed, originally using the name WAFL, or
Women's American Football League in 2001. The AFWL officially disbanded in March 2003, due to money and attendance problems.
AFWL teams
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Arizona Titans
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Long Beach Aftershock
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Los Angeles Lasers
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Sacramento Gold Rush
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San Diego Sunfire
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San Francisco Tsunami
AFWL Championships
See also
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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 of America, United States. With teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two o ...
(WPFL)
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Women's football in the United States
Women's American football in the United States is the American football sport played by women, both regionally in the United States and worldwide in the IFAF Women's World Championship.
History
American football has been played by women, both ...
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List of leagues of American football
This is a list of current and defunct leagues of American football and Canadian football.
Leagues in North America
Current professional leagues in North America
Professional outdoor leagues
''Major:''
* National Football League (NFL), 1 ...
References
{{Major women's sport leagues in North America
Defunct American football leagues in the United States
Sports leagues established in 2002
Sports leagues disestablished in 2003
Women's American football leagues
2002 establishments in the United States