A-11_Football_League
The A-11 Football League (A11FL) was a proposed professional american football minor league that was announced in 2013 and originally planned on beginning play in 2014 but folded before taking the field. The A11FL planned on playing a spring and summer schedule using modified National Football League rules that allowed for the A-11 offense, a system which potentially allows "All 11" offensive players to be eligible receivers, thus creating a more wide-open game.[1][2] The A11FL introduced six of its eight planned franchises in April 2013 and announced a seventh proposed team several months later. The franchises were to be distributed in major markets across the United States, with five of the seven teams reviving names of franchises in the United States Football League of the 1980s.
Later in 2013, the A11FL announced its intention to play two televised "showcase games" in the spring of 2014 and delay its first full season until 2015. However, in April 2014, the league announced that it would move its two planned California franchises to as of yet undetermined cities while postponing its showcase games indefinitely, though it still planned to kick off its first season with eight teams in the spring of 2015.[3]
The A11FL unofficially ended in July 2014, when the league made this statement via its Facebook page: "(T)he folks who were involved with the A11FL investment team have been actively working on financing for a new Professional Spring Football League that will no longer be branded as the A11FL... More news as it comes available."[4][non-primary source needed] Although no further updates were announced, former league officials Kurt Bryan and Scott McKibben were named head coach and team president of the expansion Oakland Panthers of the Indoor Football League in 2019.[5]