2022 Indoor Football League season

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2022 IFL season
League Indoor Football League
Sport Indoor football
DurationMarch 12 – August 13
Number of teams14
Season MVPDrew Powell
Finals champions Northern Arizona Wranglers
  Runners-up Quad City Steamwheelers
Finals MVPJaQuan Artis
IFL seasons

The 2022 Indoor Football League season was the fourteenth (and thirteenth complete) season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The league played the season with 14 teams, up from 11 teams the previous season. The Bay Area Panthers, Quad City Steamwheelers, and San Diego Strike Force, returned from dormancy after electing not to play during the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vegas Knight Hawks joined the league as an expansion team. [1] The Cedar Rapids River Kings did not return and the announced 2022 expansion Columbus Wild Dogs never returned. The Spokane Shock were removed from the league in February 2022 after the team lost its lease for their home arena. [2] [3]

Contents

In the national championship round the Northern Arizona Wranglers won their first title by defeating the Quad City Steamwheelers. In doing so the Wranglers completed a worst to first comeback having won only one game (against the Tucson Sugar Skulls) the previous season.

Teams

For the 2022 season, the league is split into two conferences. [4]

The playoffs will have the top four teams per conference qualifying, and will be seeded first through fourth.

TeamLocationArenaCapacityFoundedJoinedHead coach
Eastern Conference
Bismarck Bucks Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck Event Center 10,10020172019Rod Miller
Frisco Fighters Frisco, Texas Comerica Center 3,50020192020Billy Back
Green Bay Blizzard Green Bay, Wisconsin Resch Center 8,60020032010Corey Roberson
Iowa Barnstormers Des Moines, Iowa Wells Fargo Arena 15,18119952015Dave Mogensen
Massachusetts Pirates Worcester, Massachusetts DCU Center 12,33920172021 Rayshaun Kizer
Quad City Steamwheelers Moline, Illinois Vibrant Arena at The Mark 9,20020172019 Cory Ross
Sioux Falls Storm Sioux Falls, South Dakota Denny Sanford Premier Center 10,67820002009 Kurtiss Riggs
Western Conference
Arizona Rattlers Phoenix, Arizona Footprint Center [5] 18,42219922017 Kevin Guy
Bay Area Panthers San Jose, California SAP Center 17,56220192020Kurt Bryan
Duke City Gladiators Rio Rancho, New Mexico Rio Rancho Events Center 6,00020152020Sherman Carter
Northern Arizona Wranglers Prescott Valley, Arizona Findlay Toyota Center 6,00020202021 Les Moss
San Diego Strike Force San Diego, California Pechanga Arena 12,00020182019David Beezer
Tucson Sugar Skulls Tucson, Arizona Tucson Arena 8,96220182019Dixie Wooten
Vegas Knight Hawks [6] Henderson, Nevada [7] Dollar Loan Center 6,01920212022Mike Davis

Regular season

Standings

Eastern Conference

TeamWLPCTGBCONFSTKPFPA
Frisco Fighters 142.867-7–1W8737562
Massachusetts Pirates 115.66738–2W1612556
Quad City Steamwheelers [a] 97.56358–7W1664642
Iowa Barnstormers [a] 97.56358–7L1642605
Sioux Falls Storm 88.53367–7W1643646
Green Bay Blizzard 610.37585–10L2518558
Bismarck Bucks 313.188112–11L11529678

Western Conference

TeamWLPCTGBCONFSTKPFPA
Arizona Rattlers 133.813-11–2W4846500
Northern Arizona Wranglers 124.800111–3W1622447
Tucson Sugar Skulls 97.53348–5L1732747
Duke City Gladiators 88.46756–5W1644655
Vegas Knight Hawks 610.37575–7L1586617
San Diego Strike Force 313.200102–11L2580749
Bay Area Panthers 115.067121–11L14431824

Notes

[b]

  1. 1 2 Quad City finished ahead of Iowa based on head-to-head victory.
  2. ↑ The procedure used to determine tiebreakers is: 1) Conference record 2) Head-to-head record, 3) Strength of schedule, 4) Head-to-head point differential, and 5) Overall point differential [8]

Playoffs

First round
(July 22–24)		Second round
(July 29–30)		National Championship
(August 13)
         
E3Quad City39
E2 Massachusetts 38
E3Quad City48
E1 Frisco 41
E4 Iowa 39
E1Frisco64
E3 Quad City 45
W2Northern Arizona47
W3 Tucson 30
W2Northern Arizona49
W2Northern Arizona52
W1 Arizona 51
W4 Duke City 14
W1Arizona53

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  2. ↑ "Spokane Shock kicked out of the Indoor Football League". KREM. February 24, 2022.
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