The CenTex Cavalry were an

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team that played in the 2017 season as a member of

Champions Indoor Football Champions Indoor Football (CIF) is 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 fro ...

(CIF). Based in Belton,

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, the Cavalry played their home games at the

Bell County Expo Center The Bell County Expo Center is a 6,559-seat multi-purpose arena, in Belton, Texas. It was formerly the home of the Texas Bullets (PIFL), the CenTex Barracudas ( IFL), the Central Texas Stampede ( WPHL) and the Central Texas Blackhawks (and later C ...

. The Cavalry was the third indoor football team to call Belton home, following the

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who played in the original

Professional Indoor Football League The Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) was a professional indoor football league that played four seasons from 2012 to 2015. Like the Lone Star Football League, the PIFL was mainly composed of teams formerly part of Southern Indoor Foot ...

for its only season of 1998 and the

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who played in the

Intense Football League The Intense Football League (IFL) was a professional indoor football minor league that began operations in 2004. Its focus was in Texas, but it was notable for being the first professional football league to place a franchise in Alaska. History ...

from 2006 until its dissolution in 2008.

History

At the end of the 2016 season,

commissioner Randy Sanders folded his team, the

San Angelo Bandits The San Angelo Bandits were a professional indoor football team based in San Angelo, Texas. They were members of Champions Indoor Football (CIF) and the Lone Star Football League (LSFL). The Bandits began play in 2013 as an expansion team in the ...

. On August 5, 2016, Sanders announced his expansion team in Belton called the CenTex Fightin' Cavalry, along with staff members Tim White and Ronald Oswalt. An official press conference took place on August 11 with Sanders and the name was changed to the CenTex Cavalry. On September 8, Michael Finney was announced as the franchise's first head coach but would be released after only two games. He was replaced by assistant coach Adrian Perez. After one winless season, Sanders shut down the team with an announcement over social media.

Season-by-season results

References

External links

Official Site
{{CIF American football teams in Texas Champions Indoor Football teams American football teams established in 2016 Defunct American football teams in Texas 2016 establishments in Texas