AFL may refer to:

Education

Angel Foundation for Learning The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 40 prior to 1999) is an Canadian English, English-language Separate school, public-separate school board for Toronto, Ontario, Cana ...

, a Canadian Roman Catholic charity * Ankara Science High School, a high school in Ankara, Turkey, natively referred to as ''Ankara Fen Liesi'' * Assessment for learning

Military

Armed Forces of Liberia The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are the armed forces of the Republic of Liberia. Tracing its origins to a militia that was formed by the first black colonists in what is now Liberia, it was founded as the Liberian Frontier Force in 1908, and r ...

* Armée française de la Libération or French Liberation Army, the army of Free France from 1943 to 1945 *

Army of Free Lebanon The Army of Free Lebanon – AFL (), also known variously as the Colonel Barakat's Army () or Armée du Liban Libre (ALL) and Armée du Colonel Barakat in French, was a predominantly Christian splinter faction of the Lebanese Army that came to p ...

, a 1970s splinter faction of the Lebanese Armed Forces

Organized labour

* Alberta Federation of Labour, a provincial trade union centre chartered by the Canadian Labour Congress *

American Federation of Labor The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual ...

, an 1886–1955 national trade union centre that merged into the AFL-CIO * Arbeidernes Faglige Landsorganisasjon or Workers' National Trade Union, former name of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, a national trade union centre

Politics and social advocacy

* Actresses' Franchise League, a primarily English women's suffrage organization * Anglicans for Life, an anti-abortion advocacy group associated with the Anglican Church in North America *

Anti-Federalist League The Anti-Federalist League (AFL) was a small cross-party organisation in the United Kingdom, formed in 1991 to campaign against the Maastricht Treaty. It is mainly remembered now as the forerunner of the UK Independence Party and its subsequent ...

, a 1990s British political party * Australian Freedom League, a 1910s anti-conscription organization

Science and technology

American Fuzzy Lop (software) American Fuzzy Lop (AFL), stylized in all lowercase as , is a free software fuzzer that employs genetic algorithms in order to efficiently increase code coverage of the test cases. So far it has detected hundreds of significant software bugs in ...

, a fuzzer * Astrobiology Field Laboratory, a cancelled robotic rover to be sent to Mars *

Atrial flutter Atrial flutter (AFL) is a common abnormal heart rhythm that starts in the atrial chambers of the heart. When it first occurs, it is usually associated with a fast heart rate and is classified as a type of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). ...

, a form of cardiac arrhythmia

Sport

Australian rules football

* ''AFL'' (video game series), a series of Australian rules football video games ** ''AFL'' (2011 video game), an Australian rules football video game for the Wii and iOS * Anti-Football League, an organization that bemoans the cultural saturation of Australian rules football *

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

, an Australian rules football league that is the highest level of the sport **

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

, a sport commonly referred to as AFL

Gridiron football

Alberta Football League The Alberta Football League (AFL) is an amateur Canadian football league. The league's schedule runs from the start of June through to the end of September. The league currently consists of six teams: Airdrie Irish, Calgary Gators, Calgary Wol ...

, an amateur Canadian football league * American Football League, a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues: **

American Football League (1926) The first American Football League (AFL), sometimes called AFL I, AFLG, or the Grange League, was a professional American football league that operated in 1926. It was the first major competitor to the National Football League (NFL). Founded by ...

( "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football League (NFL) that competed in 1926 **

American Football League (1934) The 1934 edition of the American Football League was a short-lived professional American football minor league with teams based in the American South and Southwest. The first of several minor leagues with the same name, the 1934 was also one of t ...

, regional borderline-major league that competed in 1934 **

American Football League (1936) The American Football League (AFL) was a professional American football league that operated in 1936 and 1937. The AFL operated in direct competition with the more established National Football League (NFL) throughout its existence.Bob Carroll, ...

(a.k.a. "AFL II"), second rival of the NFL that competed in 1936 and 1937 **

American Football League (1938) The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ...

, minor professional league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939 **

American Football League (1940) The American Football League, also known retrospectively as the AFL III to distinguish it from earlier organizations of that name, was a professional American football league that operated from 1940 to 1941. It was created when three teams, the ...

(a.k.a. "AFL III"), third rival of the NFL that competed in 1940 and 1941 **

American Football League (1944) The Northwest War Industries League and American Football League were two closely related professional football minor leagues based on the West Coast of the United States that played for two nonconsecutive seasons during World War II. 1942 N ...

, offshoot of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League that competed in 1944 **

American Football League (1946) The American Association (AA) was a professional American football Minor league football (gridiron), minor league based in New York City. Founded in 1936 with teams in New York (state), New York and New Jersey, the AA extended its reach to Provid ...

, name adopted by the American Association minor American football league in 1946 **

American Football League The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, AFL–NFL merger, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Foot ...

(a.k.a. "AFL IV"), competed against the NFL from 1960 to 1970 and then merged with the NFL *

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 Arena Football League season, 1987 season, making it the third longest-runnin ...

, an American indoor football league *

Austrian Football League The Austrian Football League (AFL) is a professional American football league in Austria. The league comprises six teams, and operates on a system of promotion and relegation. It plays by rules based on those of the U.S. National Collegiate Athl ...

, the highest league of American football in Austria

Other uses in sport

* African Football League, an association football competition run by the Confederation for African Football (CAF) * American Fencing League, an amateur standard fencing league *

Arizona Fall League The Arizona Fall League (AFL) is an off-season baseball league owned and operated by Major League Baseball (MLB) which operates during autumn in Arizona, United States, at six different baseball complexes. Arizona Fall League rosters are filled ...

, an American off-season baseball league operated by Major League Baseball * Artsakh Football League. association football league of the Republic of Artsakh *

Lisbon Football Association The Lisbon Football Association (''Associação de Futebol de Lisboa''; AF Lisboa) is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Lisbon. It is also the regulator of the clubs registered in the di ...

, an association football organisation known in Portuguese as the Associação de Futebol de Lisboa (AFL)

Transportation

* Adaptive front light, of an automobile *

Aeroflot PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (, ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; , , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. Aeroflot is headquartered in the Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, with its hub being Sheremetyevo Interna ...

, ICAO airline code AFL * Alta Floresta Airport, IATA airport code AFL, in Alta Floresta, Brazil

Other uses

Abstract family of languages In computer science, in particular in the field of formal language theory, an abstract family of languages is an abstract mathematical notion generalizing characteristics common to the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursivel ...

Academic Free License The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, a former general counsel of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The license grants similar rights to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and Apache l ...

, a software licence *

Aflac Aflac Incorporated (American Family Life Assurance Company) is an American insurance company and is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States. It was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia. In the U.S., it ...

, American insurance company (NYSE ticker: AFL) * After-fader listen {{Disambiguation