The 2019 Indoor Football League season was the eleventh of the

Indoor Football League The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional indoor American football league in the United States. The league comprises 14 teams, divided equally between the Eastern Conference (EC) and Western Conference ...

(IFL). The league played this season with ten teams, up from six the previous season, by adding two expansion teams and two teams from

Champions Indoor Football Champions Indoor Football (CIF) was a professional indoor American football minor league created in 2014 out of the merger between the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) and Lone Star Football League (LSFL), plus one team fr ...

. The top six teams made the IFL playoffs, with the first round consisting of the top two seeds earning byes, the third seed hosting the sixth seed, and the fourth hosting the fifth seed. In the semifinals, the top seed hosted the lower remaining seed and the second hosting the higher-seeded winner from the first round. The semifinal winners met in the 2019 United Bowl on the weekend of July 13.

Offseason

In August 2018, the IFL announced the first 2019 expansion team, the Tucson Sugar Skulls, owned by

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' head coach

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. On September 7, the IFL announced the

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had joined the league from

(CIF). On October 5, the Bismarck Bucks of the CIF also announced their move to the IFL. During the previous season, the Cedar Rapids Titans were sold to

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and the team was rebranded as

Cedar Rapids River Kings The Cedar Rapids Titans are a professional indoor football team based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They are current members of American Indoor Football. The Titans first joined the Indoor Football League (IFL) as an expansion team in 2011 and first ...

for the 2019 season. In November 2018, Choi also launched a second 2019 IFL expansion team called the

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Offseason

Teams

Standings

Playoffs

References

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