Independent Women's Football League

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Independent Women's Football League
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Sport Women's American football
Founded 2000
No. of teams 28 total (22 regular, 6 Tier III)
Country(ies)  United States
 Canada
Most recent champion(s) World: Montreal Blitz
North American: Carolina Phoenix
Most titles Sacramento Sirens (3)

The Independent Women's Football League is a full-contact Women's American football league that was founded in 2000 and began play in 2001. It is one of three full-contact, 11-on-11 football leagues for women, along with the Women's Football Alliance and the Women's Spring Football League, and the oldest of the three. Laurie Frederick is the league's founder and CEO.

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Teams [edit]

Eastern Conference [edit]

North Atlantic Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Montreal Blitz Lachine, Quebec Dalbé-Viau High School
New England Intensity Medway, Massachusetts Medway High School

North East Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Connecticut Wreckers Danbury, Connecticut
New England Nightmare Windsor, Connecticut
New York Knockout Schenectady, New York

Mid Atlantic Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Baltimore Nighthawks Baltimore, Maryland Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Senior High School
Keystone Assault Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Firebirds Bensalem, Pennsylvania Bensalem High School
Washington Prodigy Washington, DC

South Atlantic Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Atlanta Xplosion Jonesboro, Georgia Tara Stadium
Chattanooga Locomotion Red Bank, Tennessee Red Bank High School
Carolina Phoenix Durham, North Carolina Durham County Memorial Stadium

Western Conference [edit]

Mid West Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Iowa Crush West Des Moines, Iowa Valley High School
Madison Blaze Madison, Wisconsin LaFollette High School
Minnesota Vixen Burnsville, Minnesota Burnsville High School
Wisconsin Warriors Greendale, Wisconsin Greendale High School

South West Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Arlington Impact Arlington, Texas
DFW Xtreme Dallas, Texas
Houston Energy League City, Texas Veterans Memorial Stadium

Pacific West Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
California Quake Downey, California Downey High School

Pacific Southwest Division [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Phoenix Phantomz Phoenix, Arizona Central High School
Tucson Monsoon Tucson, Arizona Tucson High Magnet School


Tier III [edit]

Team Location Home Field
Carolina Queens Charlotte, North Carolina Harding University High School
Colorado Sting Colorado Springs, Colorado
Erie Illusion Erie, Pennsylvania Erie Veterans Memorial Stadium
Maine Rebels Portland, Maine Fitzpatrick Stadium & Memorial Field
Nevada Storm Sparks, Nevada
San Antonio Regulators San Antonio, Texas

Teams that left the IWFL and are now playing elsewhere [edit]

Champions [edit]

Tier I [edit]

  • 2001 — Austin Outlaws - Champion by record
  • 2002 — New York Sharks 24, Austin Outlaws 4
  • 2003 — Sacramento Sirens 41, New York Sharks 30
  • 2004 — Sacramento Sirens 29, New York Sharks 27
  • 2005 — Sacramento Sirens 9, Atlanta Xplosion 7
  • 2006 — Atlanta Xplosion 21, Detroit Demolition 14
  • 2007 — Detroit Demolition 17, Atlanta Xplosion 7
  • 2008 — Dallas Diamonds 35, Chicago Force 29
  • 2009 — Kansas City Tribe 21, D.C. Divas 18
  • 2010 — Boston Militia 39, Sacramento Sirens 7
  • 2011 — Atlanta Ravens 24, California Quake 22
  • 2012 — Montreal Blitz 28, Sacramento Sirens 27[1]

Tier II [edit]

  • 2008 — Montreal Blitz 26, Clarksville Fox 6
  • 2009 — Wisconsin Warriors 42, Montreal Blitz 14
  • 2010 — Montreal Blitz 9, Bay Area Bandits 2
  • 2011 — Seattle Majestics 20, New England Intensity 0
  • 2012 — Carolina Phoenix 27, Portland Shockwave 0[2]

Tier III [edit]

  • 2012 — Carolina Queens 18, Colorado Sting 0

References [edit]

See also [edit]

External links [edit]