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Pioneer Football League

Pioneer Football League
(PFL)
Pioneer Football League logo
Established 1991
Association NCAA
Division Division I FCS
Members 11
Sports fielded 1 (football) (men's: 1; women's: 0)
Region Nationwide
Headquarters St. Louis, Missouri
Commissioner Patty Viverito (since 1994)
Website www.pioneer-football.org
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The Pioneer Football League (PFL) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the United States.. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference. It has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west. It is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the same complex that also contains the offices of the Missouri Valley Conference and Missouri Valley Football Conference Unlike most other Division I FCS conferences, the Pioneer League consists of institutions that choose not to award athletic scholarships ("grants-in-aid") to football players.

Most of the PFL's members are private schools. Morehead State University is the only public school in the conference.

Following an NCAA rule change passed in January 1991, which required Division I schools to conduct all sports at the Division I level by 1993, the conference was formed by charter members Butler University, the University of Dayton, Drake University, the University of Evansville, and Valparaiso University. The University of San Diego joined in 1992, and the league played its first season in 1993. The six original schools which played in the 1993 season had previously sponsored football at the Division I, Division II and Division III levels.


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