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Franchises award member clubs the exclusive right to hold professional football games between league members within a 75-mile radius of their city as well as the exclusive rights to market games in their area. [1] There are currently 32 clubs in the league, and new members can only be approved with the support of 3/4s of current members. [2]
As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
Team(s) City Joined stadium Left stadium Notes (if needed) Reference(s) Images Akron's League Park: Akron Pros: Akron, Ohio: 1920 1922 Site of the first NFL Champions. Named Elk's Field for 1922. Later named League Park after Akron Pros left. [1] League Field: Canton Bulldogs: Canton, Ohio: 1920 1926 [2] Navin Field/Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium
Cities that hosted NFL teams in the 1920s and 1930s. Cities that still have NFL teams from that era are in black, while other cities are in red. Only teams that played more than ten games in the NFL are included. In league meetings prior to the 1933 season, three new teams, the Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Eagles, were admitted to the NFL.
Pages in category "Defunct National Football League teams" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following list contains all metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the defunct national/international professional outdoor gridiron football leagues beginning with (for the sake of simplicity, this will focus on American football leagues post the AFL-NFL merger) the World Football League onward.
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged.. In the early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners, while the Great Depression era saw the movement of most surviving small-town NFL teams to larger cities to ensure ...