2022 Indoor Football League season
Sports season
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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]
| 2022 IFL season | |
|---|---|
| League | Indoor Football League |
| Sport | Indoor football |
| Duration | March 12 – August 13 |
| Teams | 14 |
| Season MVP | Drew Powell |
| Finals champions | Northern Arizona Wranglers |
| Runners-up | Quad City Steamwheelers |
| Finals MVP | JaQuan Artis |
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.
Regular season
Standings
Eastern Conference
| Team | W | L | PCT | GB | CONF | STK | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frisco Fighters | 14 | 2 | .867 | - | 7–1 | W8 | 737 | 562 |
| Massachusetts Pirates | 11 | 5 | .667 | 3 | 8–2 | W1 | 612 | 556 |
| Quad City Steamwheelers[a] | 9 | 7 | .563 | 5 | 8–7 | W1 | 664 | 642 |
| Iowa Barnstormers[a] | 9 | 7 | .563 | 5 | 8–7 | L1 | 642 | 605 |
| Sioux Falls Storm | 8 | 8 | .533 | 6 | 7–7 | W1 | 643 | 646 |
| Green Bay Blizzard | 6 | 10 | .375 | 8 | 5–10 | L2 | 518 | 558 |
| Bismarck Bucks | 3 | 13 | .188 | 11 | 2–11 | L11 | 529 | 678 |
Western Conference
| Team | W | L | PCT | GB | CONF | STK | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Rattlers | 13 | 3 | .813 | - | 11–2 | W4 | 846 | 500 |
| Northern Arizona Wranglers | 12 | 4 | .800 | 1 | 11–3 | W1 | 622 | 447 |
| Tucson Sugar Skulls | 9 | 7 | .533 | 4 | 8–5 | L1 | 732 | 747 |
| Duke City Gladiators | 8 | 8 | .467 | 5 | 6–5 | W1 | 644 | 655 |
| Vegas Knight Hawks | 6 | 10 | .375 | 7 | 5–7 | L1 | 586 | 617 |
| San Diego Strike Force | 3 | 13 | .200 | 10 | 2–11 | L2 | 580 | 749 |
| Bay Area Panthers | 1 | 15 | .067 | 12 | 1–11 | L14 | 431 | 824 |
Notes
Playoffs
| First round (July 22–24) | Second round (July 29–30) | National Championship (August 13) | ||||||||||||
| E3 | Quad City | 39 | ||||||||||||
| E2 | Massachusetts | 38 | ||||||||||||
| E3 | Quad City | 48 | ||||||||||||
| E1 | Frisco | 41 | ||||||||||||
| E4 | Iowa | 39 | ||||||||||||
| E1 | Frisco | 64 | ||||||||||||
| E3 | Quad City | 45 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | Northern Arizona | 47 | ||||||||||||
| W3 | Tucson | 30 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | Northern Arizona | 49 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | Northern Arizona | 52 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Arizona | 51 | ||||||||||||
| W4 | Duke City | 14 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Arizona | 53 | ||||||||||||