American Arena League
Current season, competition or edition: 2018 American Arena League season
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| Sport | Indoor football |
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| Founded | 2017 |
| Inaugural season | 2018 |
| President | Jack Bowman |
| Commissioner | TBA |
| No. of teams | 11 |
| Country | United States |
| Related competitions |
Can-Am Indoor Football League Arena Pro Football Supreme Indoor Football |
| Official website | AmericanArenaLeague.com |
The American Arena League (AAL) is a professional indoor football league that is announced to have its first season in 2018. The league was created from a merger between Arena Pro Football and the Can-Am Indoor Football League. Teams from both leagues, new teams, and later teams from Supreme Indoor Football would make up the new league in its first season.
The AAL was formed as a part of a merger between Arena Pro Football and the Can-Am Indoor Football League after each payed their inaugural seasons. The league announced its inaugural members over its social media page in June 2017. From the Can-Am, the league added: the Boston Blaze, Buffalo Blitz, Connecticut Chiefs, Glens Falls Gladiators, Rochester Kings, Vermont Bucks, and the Central Penn Chargers (a team that primarily played in the Mid-Atlantic Indoor Football League during the previous season, but played in Can-Am playoff game against the Bucks). From the APF, the league added: the Florida Tarpons, Richmond Roughriders, and the announced expansion team Hampton Roads Riptides. The Roughriders had previously stated that they were looking to join to the Indoor Football League or the National Arena League and have said they have not confirmed they would join the AAL yet. The AAL then deleted all references of the Roughriders from their social media posts within two days and the Roughriders later announced they had joined the National Arena League (NAL). By September 13, they had returned to the AAL when they failed to join the NAL. By early July, the only teams that had not been deleted from their social media posts were the Bucks, Gladiators, Kings, and Tarpons. On July 13, the AAL reconfirmed the Chargers as league members and added the Georgia Doom of Macon, Georgia. The Doom organization had played a few games as a travel team fill-in for the Dayton Wolfpack of the National Arena League the previous season. The league also added the Triangle Torch and Upstate Dragons after they previously played in Supreme Indoor Football, with the SIF's Cape Fear Heroes (the ownership group that operates the SIF) joining the AAL shortly thereafter. On September 20, the High Country Grizzlies, formerly of the NAL, joined the AAL.
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