United Indoor Football League
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Most recent season or competition: 2014 UIFL season |
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Ultimate Indoor Football League logo
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| Formerly | United Indoor Football League |
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| Sport | Indoor football |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | Michael Taylor Andrew Haines |
| Inaugural season | 2011 |
| Ceased | 2014 |
| President | Jim Krause |
| Country |
 United States
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| Last champion(s) |
Corpus Christi Fury |
| Most titles |
Cincinnati Commandos Corpus Christi Fury Florida Tarpons & Saginaw Sting (1) |
| Sponsor(s) |
Rawlings Conquest Sports Foundation Conquest Club Card ProSportsRecruit.com Trophy Awards La Quinta Inns & Suites |
| Related competitions |
Champions Professional Indoor Football League Continental Indoor Football League Professional Indoor Football League |
| Official website | UIFLfootball.com |
The Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL) was a regional professional indoor football league that began its inaugural season on February 18, 2011 as the Ultimate Indoor Football League before playing as the United Indoor Football League in 2012, then switched back to "Ultimate" for the 2013 season. After the 2014 season, the league merged with X-League Indoor Football.
On February 18, 2011, the first-ever UIFL game was played between the Saginaw Sting and the Eastern Kentucky Drillers. The inaugural game was held at the Dow Event Center in Saginaw, Michigan. The league co-founders are Michael Taylor and Andrew Haines; Haines was also the owner and founder of the Atlantic/American Indoor Football League and the Mid-Atlantic Hockey League. The UIFL has a logo nearly identical to the one used by the AIFL in the 2006 season (though it favors blue instead of red), and will apparently also use the AIFL red, white, and blue football also in use in the American Indoor Football Association. The league is based in Canton, Ohio.
The league's first five teams were located in the Appalachia region, with teams based in Canton, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Pikeville, Kentucky; Highland Heights, Kentucky; and Huntington, West Virginia. Of those five markets, three (Canton, Johnstown, and Huntington) had teams in Haines' previous league, the AIFL. The two markets in Kentucky have never had a professional indoor football team in any league (though Highland Heights is usually considered part of the Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area, and the city of Cincinnati has had several indoor teams). The sixth team, the Saginaw Sting, came from the Indoor Football League.
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