The Outlaws Arena Football Team, historically known as the Billings Outlaws, are a professional indoor football team based in

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that compete in Arena Football One (AF1). The Outlaws play their home games at MetraPark First Interstate Arena. They were founded in 2022 as members of

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 ...

. In 2024, they joined the revived

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and won

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. In 2025, they became inaugural members of the newly-formed AF1.

History

The Outlaws will be the third indoor football team to be based in Billings following the original

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(2000–2010) and the

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(2015–2016).

Champions Indoor Football (2022–2023)

On April 30, 2021, Keith Russ and Tel Koen, owners of fellow

(CIF) team the

Wyoming Mustangs The Gillette Mustangs (formerly Wyoming Mustangs) were a professional arena football team based in Gillette, Wyoming, with home games at Wyoming Center at the CAM-PLEX. The team was owned by Steven Titus, also owner of the Billings Outlaws. Hi ...

, announced they would bring an expansion CIF team to Billings for the 2022 season. A name-the-team contest was held, with the Outlaws being named the winner on July 22. Despite using the original Outlaws' name, logo, and colors, the current Outlaws are considered to be a new franchise with no other connection to the previous Outlaws, but continues to market itself as a continuation. In June 2022, it was announced Steven Titus, a

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, attorney purchased the Outlaws and Wyoming Mustangs. On August 29, 2023, the Outlaws were announced to become members of the third incarnation of the

. Titus named the Mustangs' head coach, Cedric Walker, as the new head coach of the Outlaws.

Arena Football League (2024)

In 2024, the CIF merged with the latest incarnation of the

along with remaining members

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and Southwest Kansas Storm while the

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and

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opted for the

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and the Gillette Mustangs folding. The league faced massive turmoil and owner Steven Titus led the charge to oust league commissioner Lee Hutton III as the league was cut in half during the season with teams either folding or being removed from the schedule. Despite all of the turmoil, the Outlaws played on and made the playoffs as the #1 seed in the revamped system. The Outlaws would make it to

, which was played at

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Mall in

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, and face the

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. The Outlaws won the championship 46–41 over the Firebirds giving the Outlaws their first championship of any kind since the original Outlaws won their last title in 2010.

Arena Football One (2025–present)

On September 4, 2024, the Outlaws announced they were leaving the collapsed AFL and helping to form the new Arena Football One league, with team owner Steven Titus serving as league chairman. They will play in the West Division along with the Oregon Lightning and

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(Potential opponents the

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went dormant for the season). The Outlaws signed a substantial portion of the Corpus Christi Tritons' roster on May 1, 2025, including star

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, following allegations of impropriety from the Tritons ownership. Titus acknowledged on May 4 amid a four-game losing streak that the team was encountering multiple financial difficulties, including low attendance, loss of corporate sponsors, little to no government support, and increasing expenses that put the team's future in jeopardy. Titus reiterated these concerns when reached by the ''

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'' later that week, stating that it no longer made financial sense to continue playing in Billings and that the team had a "50-50" chance of returning in Billings with him as owner. On May 25, 2025, the Outlaws dropped the city name from the team name further fueling speculation of the franchise moving out of the city. This was largely disregarded in the local press, who as late as June 15 still referred to the team as the "Billings Outlaws." The Outlaws finished the season on a three-game winning streak, but this would be insufficient to reach the playoffs; the team was

eliminated from playoff contention Elimination from postseason contention, or being eliminated from playoff contention, refers to the point when it is no longer mathematically possible for a sports team to qualify for their league's annual postseason, regardless of the outcomes o ...

on the final play of the league's 2025 regular season when the Salina Liberty kicked a go-ahead field goal to clinch the final slot.

Current roster

Staff

Source:Team Staff Page
Team website

Season-by-season results

Notes

External links

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Billings Outlaws at ArenaFan.com
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