# 2022 Indoor Football League season

The 2022 Indoor Football League season was the fourteenth (and thirteenth complete) season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The league played the season with 14 teams, up from 11 teams the previous season. The Bay Area Panthers, Quad City Steamwheelers, and San Diego Strike Force, returned from dormancy after electing not to play during the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vegas Knight Hawks joined the league as an expansion team. The Cedar Rapids River Kings did not return and the announced 2022 expansion Columbus Wild Dogs never returned. The Spokane Shock were removed from the league in February 2022 after the team lost its lease for their home arena.
In the national championship round the Northern Arizona Wranglers won their first title by defeating the Quad City Steamwheelers. In doing so the Wranglers completed a worst to first comeback having won only one game (against the Tucson Sugar Skulls) the previous season.

## Teams

For the 2022 season, the league is split into two conferences.
The playoffs will have the top four teams per conference qualifying, and will be seeded first through fourth.
| Team | Location | Arena | Capacity | Founded | Joined | Head coach |
| Eastern Conference |||||||
| Bismarck Bucks | Bismarck, North Dakota | Bismarck Event Center | 10,100 | 2017 | 2019 | Rod Miller |
| Frisco Fighters | Frisco, Texas | Comerica Center | 3,500 | 2019 | 2020 | Billy Back |
| Green Bay Blizzard | Green Bay, Wisconsin | Resch Center | 8,600 | 2003 | 2010 | Corey Roberson |
| Iowa Barnstormers | Des Moines, Iowa | Wells Fargo Arena | 15,181 | 1995 | 2015 | Dave Mogensen |
| Massachusetts Pirates | Worcester, Massachusetts | DCU Center | 12,339 | 2017 | 2021 | Rayshaun Kizer |
| Quad City Steamwheelers | Moline, Illinois | Vibrant Arena at The Mark | 9,200 | 2017 | 2019 | Cory Ross |
| Sioux Falls Storm | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | Denny Sanford Premier Center | 10,678 | 2000 | 2009 | Kurtiss Riggs |
| Western Conference |||||||
| Arizona Rattlers | Phoenix, Arizona | Footprint Center | 18,422 | 1992 | 2017 | Kevin Guy |
| Bay Area Panthers | San Jose, California | SAP Center | 17,562 | 2019 | 2020 | Kurt Bryan |
| Duke City Gladiators | Rio Rancho, New Mexico | Rio Rancho Events Center | 6,000 | 2015 | 2020 | Sherman Carter |
| Northern Arizona Wranglers | Prescott Valley, Arizona | Findlay Toyota Center | 6,000 | 2020 | 2021 | Les Moss |
| San Diego Strike Force | San Diego, California | Pechanga Arena | 12,000 | 2018 | 2019 | David Beezer |
| Tucson Sugar Skulls | Tucson, Arizona | Tucson Arena | 8,962 | 2018 | 2019 | Dixie Wooten |
| Vegas Knight Hawks | Henderson, Nevada | Dollar Loan Center | 6,019 | 2021 | 2022 | Mike Davis |

## Regular season
### Standings
#### Eastern Conference

| Team | W | L | PCT | GB | CONF | STK | PF | PA |
| Frisco Fighters | 14 | 2 | .867 | - | 7–1 | W8 | 737 | 562 |
| Massachusetts Pirates | 11 | 5 | .667 | 3 | 8–2 | W1 | 612 | 556 |
| Quad City Steamwheelers | 9 | 7 | .563 | 5 | 8–7 | W1 | 664 | 642 |
| Iowa Barnstormers | 9 | 7 | .563 | 5 | 8–7 | L1 | 642 | 605 |
| Sioux Falls Storm | 8 | 8 | .533 | 6 | 7–7 | W1 | 643 | 646 |
| Green Bay Blizzard | 6 | 10 | .375 | 8 | 5–10 | L2 | 518 | 558 |
| Bismarck Bucks | 3 | 13 | .188 | 11 | 2–11 | L11 | 529 | 678 |

#### Western Conference

| Team | W | L | PCT | GB | CONF | STK | PF | PA |
| Arizona Rattlers | 13 | 3 | .813 | - | 11–2 | W4 | 846 | 500 |
| Northern Arizona Wranglers | 12 | 4 | .800 | 1 | 11–3 | W1 | 622 | 447 |
| Tucson Sugar Skulls | 9 | 7 | .533 | 4 | 8–5 | L1 | 732 | 747 |
| Duke City Gladiators | 8 | 8 | .467 | 5 | 6–5 | W1 | 644 | 655 |
| Vegas Knight Hawks | 6 | 10 | .375 | 7 | 5–7 | L1 | 586 | 617 |
| San Diego Strike Force | 3 | 13 | .200 | 10 | 2–11 | L2 | 580 | 749 |
| Bay Area Panthers | 1 | 15 | .067 | 12 | 1–11 | L14 | 431 | 824 |

#### Notes

* 1 2 Quad City finished ahead of Iowa based on head-to-head victory.
* ↑ The procedure used to determine tiebreakers is: 1) Conference record 2) Head-to-head record, 3) Strength of schedule, 4) Head-to-head point differential, and 5) Overall point differential

## Playoffs

| First round (July 22–24) | First round (July 22–24) | First round (July 22–24) | Second round (July 29–30) | Second round (July 29–30) | Second round (July 29–30) | National Championship (August 13) | National Championship (August 13) | National Championship (August 13) |
| E3 | Quad City | 39 | | | | | | |
| E2 | Massachusetts | 38 | | | | | | |
| E2 | Massachusetts | 38 | E3 | Quad City | 48 | | | |
| | | | E1 | Frisco | 41 | | | |
| E4 | Iowa | 39 | E1 | Frisco | 41 | | | |
| E1 | Frisco | 64 | | | | | | |
| E1 | Frisco | 64 | | | | E3 | Quad City | 45 |
| | | | | | | W2 | Northern Arizona | 47 |
| W3 | Tucson | 30 | | | | | | | W2 | Northern Arizona | 47 |
| W2 | Northern Arizona | 49 | | | | | | |
| W2 | Northern Arizona | 49 | W2 | Northern Arizona | 52 | | | |
| | | | W1 | Arizona | 51 | | | |
| W4 | Duke City | 14 | W1 | Arizona | 51 | | | |
| W1 | Arizona | 53 | | | | | | |