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The American Flag Football League is a semi-professional flag football league started in 2017. The league was founded by Jeff Lewis in May 2017, and played a tournament-style schedule every summer. League players are not paid during the season and most of them are primarily amateurs, instead cash prizes are awarded to the tournament winners. [1]
On July 20, 2020, the International World Games Association (IWGA), National Football League (NFL), and International Federation of American Football (IFAF) announced that flag football would join the existing lineup of 32 unique, multi-disciplinary sports for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. [13]
Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In flag football, contact is limited between players.
The American Flag Football League, launched in 2017, became the first-ever men’s professional flag football league in 2024. Flag football will be joined by baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse ...
RG3 said flag football has a lot to offer to all the athletes that participate. "A lot of the men will end up going on and playing tackle football, [and] for the women that are here, this is now a ...
CANTON – The National Football League announced Sunday that the NFL Flag Championships, a youth football flag tournament, is coming to the Hall of Fame Village this summer.. The NFL Flag ...
Indoor Football League, 1999–2000 (Bought out by Af2 in 2001;not related to the Indoor Football League that began play in 2009) Indoor Professional Football League, 1999–2001; Arenafootball2 (af2), 2000–2009 (assets acquired in the same transaction as that noted above for Arena Football League) National Indoor Football League, 2001–2007
The AFFL was founded in 2016 to grow flag football, which will be part of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. This will be the inaugural season for the men’s league.