2015 Indoor Football League season

2015 IFL season
League Indoor Football League
Sport Indoor Football
Duration February 28, 2015 – June 20, 2015
Regular season
Playoffs
2015 United Bowl Championship

The 2015 Indoor Football League season is the seventh season of the Indoor Football League. Playing with ten teams in two conferences spread across the United States, the league's regular season kicked off on February 28, 2015, when the reigning league champion Sioux Falls Storm travelled to the Bemidji Axemen. The regular season is scheduled to end 16 weeks later on June 20, 2015, with the Green Bay Blizzard visiting the Iowa Barnstormers. The playoffs will be held in two rounds with the top two teams in each conference facing off in a conference championship game followed by the winners of those games meeting in the United Bowl.

Teams

For 2015, the IFL maintains its two-conference no-divisions format with each of 10 teams scheduled to play 14 games during the 16-week regular season. This is the one more teams than the number of teams as played in the 2014 IFL season. The Texas-based Wichita Falls Nighthawks expansion team replaces the Texas Revolution which left for Champions Indoor Football for the 2015 season. The Iowa Barnstormers joined the IFL from the Arena Football League after making a move due to easier regional travel. The Wyoming Cavalry folded, and the league accepted the expansion franchise of Billings Wolves and the Wichita Falls Nighthawks.

United Conference

Team Location Arena (Capacity)
Bemidji Axemen Bemidji, Minnesota Sanford Center (4,700)
Cedar Rapids Titans Cedar Rapids, Iowa U.S. Cellular Center (6,900)
Green Bay Blizzard Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin Resch Center (8,621)
Iowa Barnstormers Des Moines, Iowa Wells Fargo Arena (15,181)
Sioux Falls Storm Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls Arena (4,700)

Intense Conference

Team Location Arena (Capacity)
Billings Wolves Billings, Montana Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark (12,000)
Colorado Ice Loveland, Colorado Budweiser Events Center (7,200)
Nebraska Danger Grand Island, Nebraska Eihusen Arena (7,500)
Tri-Cities Fever Kennewick, Washington Toyota Center (5,970)
Wichita Falls Nighthawks Wichita Falls, Texas Kay Yeager Coliseum (7,380)

Expansion

In January 2014, the league announced that the Billings Wolves would join the league for the 2015 season. The Wolves will play their home games at Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, Montana.[1] The city was previously home to the Billings Outlaws who folded after a tornado heavily damaged their home arena.

On August 25, 2014, the Nighthawks became official members of the Indoor Football League, the top indoor league in the country alongside the Arena Football League.[2]

Standings

2015 Intense Conference
W L T PCT PF PA GB STK
Nebraska Danger 7 1 0 .875 432 318 -- W3
Tri-Cities Fever 5 3 0 .625 380 378 2.0 W1
Wichita Falls Nighthawks 3 4 0 .429 292 301 3.5 W3
Colorado Ice 2 5 0 .286 314 331 4.5 L3
Billings Wolves 1 6 0 .143 259 342 5.5 L1
2015 United Conference
W L T PCT PF PA GB STK
Sioux Falls Storm 7 0 0 1.000 450 262 -- W7
Cedar Rapids Titans 5 3 0 .625 366 285 2.5 L1
Green Bay Blizzard 3 4 0 .429 357 401 4.0 W1
Iowa Barnstormers 2 5 0 .286 256 384 5.0 L2
Bemidji Axemen 2 6 0 .250 323 427 5.5 L4

References

  1. ↑ Zimmer, Mike (February 19, 2014). "Billings Wolves to bring indoor football back to Billings in 2015". Billings Gazette (Billings, MT). Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Wichita Falls Nighthawks Join the IFL". Indoor Football League. August 26, 2014.