National Club Football Association
The National Club Football Association (NCFA) is an association of collegiate American football teams. It is a member of CollClubSports and manages the NCFA National Championship.
NCFA teams are typically operated by student sports clubs rather than faculty, and do not formally form part of a school's intercollegiate athletic program. The clubs can be based at any post-secondary college or university provided the institution in question agrees to officially recognize football as a club sport. In contrast the Intercollegiate Club Football Federation (ICFF) recognizes, in addition to the above, student clubs without official sponsorship and independent programs that combine students at multiple schools that would otherwise be unable to play college football (the NCFA allows its members to play such independent teams but does not allow those teams to contest for the championship). A number of clubs have membership in both the ICFF and NCFA, especially in the midwest and south (only in the Northeast, where the ICFF's Yankee conference expelled several NCFA member teams in 2015, is there a major distinction between the two).
The NCFA National Championship has been held each year since 2012 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia, the same site of the NCAA Division III Football Championship.
Teams
Mid-Atlantic
- Coppin State University Eagles
- George Mason University Patriots
- Longwood University Lancers
- Radford University Highlanders
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks
North Atlantic
- Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils
- Eastern Connecticut State University Warriors
- University of Vermont Catamounts (dual affiliation with NCFA and Yankee Conference)
- University of Hartford Hawks
South Atlantic
- Kennesaw State University Owls
- Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Gladiators
Great Lakes
- DePaul University Blue Demons
- Loyola University Chicago Ramblers
- Miami of Ohio Red Hawks
- Michigan State University Spartans
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars
- Ohio State University Buckeyes
- University of Michigan - Flint Kodiaks
- Wright State University Raiders
- Oakland University Golden Grizzlies
Former teams
- Chattahoochee Tech Golden Eagles
- Clarkson Golden Knights (now part of the Yankee Conference)
- Maine Black Bears
- New Orleans Privateers
- North Carolina Tar Heels
- Old Dominion Monarchs
- Onondaga Community College (now part of the Yankee Conference)
- University of South Carolina Gamecocks
- VCU Rams
- Xavier Musketeers