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The birth of semi-professional football can be traced back to the 1880s, when most sports clubs in America had a team playing football, and ostensibly played without paid players. In reality, most teams often found ways around that, and acquired the best players with the promise of jobs and trophies or watches to play against top regional clubs ...
In Scottish football, semi-professional teams compete at all levels below the Scottish Premiership, with most teams below the second-level Scottish Championship being semi-professional. Historically, English rugby league and rugby union have had one full-time professional division, with semi-professional divisions at the next level down.
2.2 Current minor professional, semi professional and amateur leagues outside North America. ... Originally American Professional Football Association (1920–1921)
While there are various semi-professional football leagues, none have any affiliation with the National Football League (NFL). The NFL and its teams have had working relationships with several independent leagues in the past, including the Association of Professional Football Leagues, the Atlantic Coast Football League, and most recently, the league owned-and-operated NFL Europe.
The Peoria Punishers semipro adult 8-man football team is headed to Minnesota to play for a national title on the Minnesota Vikings field.
World Football League (2008–2010) (3 P) Pages in category "Semi-professional American football" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The Empire Football League (EFL) is a semi-professional American football league with franchises based primarily in New York State.The league was established in 1969. Many franchises have come and gone including in locations such as Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Connecticut as well as Quebec, Montreal, and Ontario in Canada.
The Watertown Red & Black is a semi-professional American football team based in Watertown, New York.The team is the oldest active semi-pro football team in the United States, [1] and can trace its history to 1896, although the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) claimed it was founded as an Athletic Club in 1899. [2]