A Arena Football League (AFL) was founded within 1987 as an American football indoor league. A AFL's attendance has increased dramatically across a go pack years, rising to across 12,400 population by the game around 2005. the AFL likewise maintains a minor league called af2. .

Beginning sustaining a 2003 season, the AFL processed the treat by having NBC to televise league games. Around conjunction by using this, a league moved a beginning of the year from either May to February (a week when the NFL's Super Bowl) and scheduled virtually all of its games in Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday as it had it used to be that. A practice of swimming a single or even ii preyear practice game by both team before a begin of a regular year was too discontinued at this instance, & a regular season was extended from either 14 games, the length that it got been since 1996, to sixteen. Inside 2006, the year is tenatively scheduled to lead off in January 27th, during a week between a NFL's Conference Championship games & a Extremely Bowl. A AFL's championship game is known as a ArenaBowl. A league likewise has contracts sustaining Nike, Fox Sports Net, Upper Deck, and EA Sports.

A league conducted an expansion draft in September of 2005 in order to stock a Utah Blaze, and another is scheduled to equity a recently team around Kansas City, Missouri. Because of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans VooDoo announced that they would suspend operations for 2006, hence a addition of the Kansas City franchise. Within an effort to farther raise a league's profile, a ArenaBowl championship game is conducted within Las Vegas for at least the next triplet years, which began using ArenaBowl XIX on June 12, 2005. Ethe Sports is in the run of design & marketing a video game based in the AFL, which is around places by on or even astir February 6, 2006.

A system of the game may be obtained on the Arena football page.

A todays AFL commissioner is David Baker.

Current AFL teams

NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Eastern Section	Southern Division
Columbus Destroyers	Austin Wranglers
Dallas Desperados	Georgia Force
New York Dragons	New Orleans VooDoo ×
Philadelphia Soul	Orlando Predators
	Tampa Bay Storm
	Kansas City †

U.s. CONFERENCE
Central Section	American Section	Speculative teams for 2006 expansion
Chicago Rush	Arizona Rattlers	Boston
Colorado Crush	Las Vegas Gladiators
Nashville Kats	Los Angeles Avengers
Grand Rapids Rampage	San Jose SaberCats
	Utah Blaze †

× — Suspended operations for the 2006 year due to Hurricane Katrina. † — Confirmed for 2006 expansion.