2024 VFL Season

The 2024 Valiant Football League Season is the eleventh season of the Valiant Football League, and the first season of the league since rebranding to the Valiant Football League. The season began on February 23, 2024 with the defending United Cup champions Cincinnati Lynx defeating the Seattle Avengers on the season kickoff edition of Friday Night Football by a score of 35-21. The season sees the introduction of a new playoff format, expanding to feature eight teams instead of six. The conference champions will now be crowned as the teams with the best records in their side of the league, clinching the top two seeds whilst the remaining six are given to the best remaining teams in the league. The season also saw the introduction of a new league logo, matching the rebrand to the Valiant Football League from the prior logo introduced the year before. The season also sees the continuation of a points format, ranking teams based primarily off the points gained through wins and losses throughout the season instead of wins and losses directly. This was done in an effort to simplify the impact of ties throughout the season the year prior, awarding teams no points for a loss, four points for a victory, and two points for a tie, officially marking a tie as being worth half of a victory in overall value. Teams will no longer be organised by divisions, instead being kept in their divisions for the purposes of scheduling each season. All sixteen clubs in the 2024 season will now be ranked on the same scale as each other regardless of division or conference in a new table format.
The playoffs will begin on August 3, 2024 with the brand new Opening Finals Round and will conclude on August 25, 2023 with with the newly-minted 2024 Grand Final.
This is the first season of the league in which the Big Sky Black Bears would participate in, relocating to the American state of Montana and rebranding from their original branding of the Vegas Demons. ahead of the 2024 VFL Season, having been granted approval for relocation by the then-United Football League itself following the 2023 UFL Season. This is the last season in which the Baltimore Capitals would participate in, having been granted the approval to relocate to the American state of Massachusetts by the then-United Football League itself following the 2024 VFL Season. This would also be the first season in which the Angel City Swans would participate under that branding, having ended their initial search into potentially relocating to the Californian city of Sacramento in favour of remaining in Los Angeles. The team would ditch the 'Bolts' nickname and rephrase their represented city ahead of the 2024 VFL Season.
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