2014 Professional Indoor Football League season | |
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League | Professional Indoor Football League |
Sport | Indoor American football |
Duration | March 29, 2013 – July 12, 2013 |
Season MVP | Warren Smith (Trenton) |
Playoffs | |
American Conference champions | Nashville Venom |
American Conference runners-up | Columbus Lions |
National Conference champions | Lehigh Valley Steelhawks |
National Conference runners-up | Trenton Freedom |
PIFL Cup III | |
Champions | Nashville Venom |
Runners-up | Lehigh Valley Steelhawks |
Finals MVP | Charles McCullum (Nashville) |
The 2014 Professional Indoor Football League season was the third season of the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL). The regular season began March 29, 2014, and ended on June 28, 2014. Each team played a 12-game schedule. The top 2 teams in each conference advanced to the playoffs that began on July 5. The final was played July 12, with the Nashville Venom defeating the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks to win their first league championship. [1]
The Harrisburg Stampede joined the league, after playing two seasons in American Indoor Football. [2] The Nashville Venom and the Trenton Freedom joined the league as expansion members. [3] [4] With complications surrounding the Albany Panthers franchise for the 2014 season, the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) introduced the Fire to replace the Panthers for the 2014 season. With the league running the team, PIFL Executive Director, Jeff Ganos was named the franchise's general manager and Cosmo DeMatteo was named the team's innaurgal head coach on February 27, 2014. [5]
Team | Overall | Conference | |||||||||
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W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||
National Conference | |||||||||||
y-Trenton Freedom | 8 | 4 | 0 | .667 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .750 | |||
x-Lehigh Valley Steelhawks | 6 | 6 | 0 | .500 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .625 | |||
Richmond Raiders | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | 3 | 5 | 0 | .375 | |||
Harrisburg Stampede | 4 | 8 | 0 | .333 | 2 | 6 | 0 | .250 | |||
American Conference | |||||||||||
y-Nashville Venom | 10 | 2 | 0 | .833 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .750 | |||
x-Columbus Lions | 7 | 5 | 0 | .583 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .625 | |||
Georgia Fire | 4 | 8 | 0 | .333 | 3 | 5 | 0 | .375 | |||
Alabama Hammers | 4 | 8 | 0 | .333 | 2 | 6 | 0 | .250 |
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
1 | Nashville | 43 | |||||||
2 | Columbus | 39 | |||||||
A1 | Nashville | 64 | |||||||
N2 | Lehigh Valley | 43 | |||||||
1 | Trenton | 38 | |||||||
2 | Lehigh Valley | 49 |
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