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2022 IFL season
LeagueIndoor Football League
SportIndoor football
DurationMarch 12 – August 13
Number of teams14
Season MVPDrew Powell
Finals championsNorthern Arizona Wranglers
  Runners-upQuad City Steamwheelers
Finals MVPJaQuan Artis
IFL seasons

The 2022 Indoor Football League season was the fourteenth (and thirteenth complete) season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The league played the season with 14 teams, up from 11 teams the previous season. The Bay Area Panthers, Quad City Steamwheelers, and San Diego Strike Force, returned from dormancy after electing not to play during the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vegas Knight Hawks joined the league as an expansion team.[1] The Cedar Rapids River Kings did not return and the announced 2022 expansion Columbus Wild Dogs never returned. The Spokane Shock were removed from the league in February 2022 after the team lost its lease for their home arena.[2][3]

In the national championship round the Northern Arizona Wranglers won their first title by defeating the Quad City Steamwheelers. In doing so the Wranglers completed a worst to first comeback having won only one game (against the Tucson Sugar Skulls) the previous season.

Teams

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For the 2022 season, the league is split into two conferences.[4]

The playoffs will have the top four teams per conference qualifying, and will be seeded first through fourth.

Team Location Arena Capacity Founded Joined Head coach
Eastern Conference
Bismarck Bucks Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck Event Center 10,100 2017 2019 Rod Miller
Frisco Fighters Frisco, Texas Comerica Center 3,500 2019 2020 Billy Back
Green Bay Blizzard Green Bay, Wisconsin Resch Center 8,600 2003 2010 Corey Roberson
Iowa Barnstormers Des Moines, Iowa Wells Fargo Arena 15,181 1995 2015 Dave Mogensen
Massachusetts Pirates Worcester, Massachusetts DCU Center 12,339 2017 2021 Rayshaun Kizer
Quad City Steamwheelers Moline, Illinois Vibrant Arena at The Mark 9,200 2017 2019 Cory Ross
Sioux Falls Storm Sioux Falls, South Dakota Denny Sanford Premier Center 10,678 2000 2009 Kurtiss Riggs
Western Conference
Arizona Rattlers Phoenix, Arizona Footprint Center[5] 18,422 1992 2017 Kevin Guy
Bay Area Panthers San Jose, California SAP Center 17,562 2019 2020 Kurt Bryan
Duke City Gladiators Rio Rancho, New Mexico Rio Rancho Events Center 6,000 2015 2020 Sherman Carter
Northern Arizona Wranglers Prescott Valley, Arizona Findlay Toyota Center 6,000 2020 2021 Les Moss
San Diego Strike Force San Diego, California Pechanga Arena 12,000 2018 2019 David Beezer
Tucson Sugar Skulls Tucson, Arizona Tucson Arena 8,962 2018 2019 Dixie Wooten
Vegas Knight Hawks[6] Henderson, Nevada[7] Dollar Loan Center 6,019 2021 2022 Mike Davis

Regular season

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Standings

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Eastern Conference

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Team W L PCT GB CONF STK PF PA
Frisco Fighters 14 2 .867 - 7–1 W8 737 562
Massachusetts Pirates 11 5 .667 3 8–2 W1 612 556
Quad City Steamwheelers[a] 9 7 .563 5 8–7 W1 664 642
Iowa Barnstormers[a] 9 7 .563 5 8–7 L1 642 605
Sioux Falls Storm 8 8 .533 6 7–7 W1 643 646
Green Bay Blizzard 6 10 .375 8 5–10 L2 518 558
Bismarck Bucks 3 13 .188 11 2–11 L11 529 678

Western Conference

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Team W L PCT GB CONF STK PF PA
Arizona Rattlers 13 3 .813 - 11–2 W4 846 500
Northern Arizona Wranglers 12 4 .800 1 11–3 W1 622 447
Tucson Sugar Skulls 9 7 .533 4 8–5 L1 732 747
Duke City Gladiators 8 8 .467 5 6–5 W1 644 655
Vegas Knight Hawks 6 10 .375 7 5–7 L1 586 617
San Diego Strike Force 3 13 .200 10 2–11 L2 580 749
Bay Area Panthers 1 15 .067 12 1–11 L14 431 824

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Quad City finished ahead of Iowa based on head-to-head victory.
  2. ^ The procedure used to determine tiebreakers is: 1) Conference record 2) Head-to-head record, 3) Strength of schedule, 4) Head-to-head point differential, and 5) Overall point differential[8]

Playoffs

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First round
(July 22–24) 		Second round
(July 29–30) 		National Championship
(August 13)
         
E3 Quad City 39
E2 Massachusetts 38
E3 Quad City 48
E1 Frisco 41
E4 Iowa 39
E1 Frisco 64
E3 Quad City 45
W2 Northern Arizona 47
W3 Tucson 30
W2 Northern Arizona 49
W2 Northern Arizona 52
W1 Arizona 51
W4 Duke City 14
W1 Arizona 53

References

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  1. ^ "IFL Continues to Grow as the 2022 Schedule is Announced". Indoor Football League. October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  2. ^ "Spokane Shock kicked out of the Indoor Football League". KREM. February 24, 2022.
  3. ^ "IFL ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE CHANGE". IFL. February 24, 2022.
  4. ^ "2022 standings". GoIFL.com. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
  5. ^ "Arizona Rattlers Announce Schedule for 2021 IFL Season". AZRattlers.com. 2020-11-17. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  6. ^ "The Vegas Knight Hawks Are the Newest Franchise in the IFL". OurSports Central. August 24, 2021.
  7. ^ "Vegas Golden Knights buy Indoor Football League expansion franchise". KSNV-TV. May 11, 2021.
  8. ^ "Playoffs". goifl.com. Retrieved 2024-06-25.

See also

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