Central Football League (American football)

Infobox sports league

sport=American football
founded=1999
teams=10
country=USA
champion=Joplin Crusaders
website= [http://www.cfleague.com Official CFL Website]

The Central Football League is a Semi-Pro/Minor League football organization based out of Oklahoma. The league started play in 1999.

Teams

North

*Arkansas Warriors (Springdale, Arkansas)
*Enid Enforcers (Enid, Oklahoma)
*Joplin Crusaders (Joplin, Missouri)
*Kansas Cougars (Newton, Kansas)
*Totown Booblies ( [Totown, Kansas}))
*Oklahoma Knights (Claremore, Oklahoma)

South

*Arkansas Lions (Fort Smith, Arkansas)
*Oklahoma Outlawz (Stratford, Oklahoma)
*Oklahoma Rebels (Based out of Lawton, Oklahoma but playing in Cache, Oklahoma)
*River Valley Buccaneers (Panama, Oklahoma)
*Southern Oklahoma Roughnecks (Healdton, Oklahoma)

2008 Championship
The 2008 CFL Championship is set to be played on May 17, 2008 in Tulsa, OK. The team with the better record will be considered the home team. Kickoff will be at 6pm.

2008 All Star Game
The 2008 All-Star Game will be played in Tulsa (hosted by the Oklahoma Knights) on May 31st, 2008.----

2007 Season
The 2007 CFL Season had a total of 12 teams take the field. The league broke into two divisions. The Elite 12 North and The Elite 12 South. The Championship game was held in Panama, Oklahoma at the River Valley Buccaneers home field where the Joplin Crusaders (North) beat the North Texas Falcons (South).

"2007 Standings"
Elite 12 North
1. Joplin Crusaders (13-0)
2. Arkansas Warriors (8-4)
3. Oklahoma Rhinos (5-6)
4. Kansas Cougars (4-7)
5. Arkansas Panthers (3-7)
6. River Valley Buccaneers (1-9)

Elite 12 South
1. North Texas Falcons (10-3)
2. Oklahoma Outlawz (9-3)
3. Oklahoms Rebels (7-4)
4. Oklahoma City Gunners (4-7)
5. Midwest City Force (2-8)
6. Ada Firestorm (0-10)

2007 All Star Game
The 2007 season of the CFL-Elite 12 wrapped up Saturday, June 2nd, with the All-Star Game, hosted by the Midwest City Force. 50-55 players converged on the Midwest City Field and divided up into the Red and Blue Squads.

The Red squad posted two scores in the 1st half, to lead at the break 16-0. The 2nd half saw the Blue squad battle back to cut the score to 6-18, and after the Red squad scored again to go up 24-6, the Blue squad responded with a defensive INT for a TD and tacked on a 2 point conversion to make to score 24-14. The clock ran out on the blue as they were moving in to score again and the CFL-Elite 12’s season came to an exciting close, with the Red All-Stars defeating the Blue All-Stars 24-14.

----Teams Currently in the CFL

*Arkansas Warriors

*Enid Enforcers

*Joplin Crusaders

*Kansas Cougars

*Oklahoma Knights

*Arkansas Lions

*Oklahoma Outlawz

*Oklahoma Rebels

*River Valley Buccaneers

*Southern Oklahoma Roughnecks

Past Champions

Links

* [http://www.cfleague.com Central Football League Official Website]
* [http://cfleague.21.forumer.com/ Official League Forum]
* [http://www.semiprofootball.org/ Semi-pro Football Headquarters]