The Women's Spring Football League is a full contact Women's American football

Women's American football

Women have begun playing full-contact American football. Most leagues play by the same rules as their male counterparts, with one exception: women's leagues use a slightly smaller football. Women primarily play on a semi-professional or amateur level in the United States...

 league which began play in 2010. Five teams played the WSFL's 2010 exhibition schedule, with twelve more joining for their first full season in 2011, and five more for 2012. Three of the league's original 5 have since left, along with three others who were originally to play in 2011. There are now 22 teams in the WSFL, and 3 more joining for 2012-13, with the divisions being the 11-woman

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 and 8-woman

Eight-man football

Eight-man football is a type of American football, generally played by small high schools. Rules and formations vary greatly among states and even among different organizations, but the one constant is eight players from each team on the field at one time, as opposed to eleven-man football, which...

 divisions.

History

The Women's Spring Football league was founded in 2009, and played in 2010, but there was no actual champion. In 2011, the Baltimore Burn

Baltimore Burn

The Baltimore Burn is a women's American football team in the Women's Spring Football League . Formerly a member of the National Women's Football League The Baltimore Burn is a women's American football team in the Women's Spring Football League (2011). Formerly a member of the National Women's...

, who played in the Women's Football Alliance

Women's Football Alliance

The Women's Football Alliance is a full-contact Women's American football league which began play in the spring of 2009. They have now completed three full seasons and grew to over 60 teams slated for the 2011 season. The women play 11 person tackle football games with rules that basically mirror...

 in 2010 and moved to the WSFL, won the 11-woman division title, becoming the WSFL's first champion.

11-man Division

• Arkansas Rampage
• Baltimore Burn
  Baltimore Burn
  The Baltimore Burn is a women's American football team in the Women's Spring Football League . Formerly a member of the National Women's Football League The Baltimore Burn is a women's American football team in the Women's Spring Football League (2011). Formerly a member of the National Women's...
  
  
• Binghamton Tiger Cats
  Binghamton Tiger Cats
  The Binghamton Tiger Cats are an Independent Women's Tackle Football team based in Binghamton, New York which began play for its inaugural 2009 season as a member of the Women's Football Alliance and for the 2010 season as a member of the Independent Women's Football League.The Tiger Cats are the...
  
  
• DC Saints
• Finger Lakes Flaconz
• Frederick Saints
  Frederick Saints
  The Frederick Saints are a women's semi-professional football team in the Women's Spring Football League set to begin play for the 2012 season. Based in Frederick, Maryland, the Saints plan to announce their home venue in the coming weeks.-External links:...
  
  
• Huntsville Tigers
• Iowa Thunder
  Iowa Thunder
  The Iowa Thunder is a women's professional American football team based in Des Moines, Iowa. They play in the Women's Spring Football League. During its first two seasons, the Thunder was a member of the Women's Football Alliance-History:...
  
  
• Louisville Belles
• Mass Chaos
• New Jersey Titans
  New Jersey Titans
  The New Jersey Titans are a team of the Women's Spring Football League. Based in Wayne, New Jersey, the Titans play their home games on the campus of the Passaic County Technical Institute....
  
  
• North Texas Knockouts
  North Texas Knockouts
  The North Texas Knockouts are a team of the Women's Spring Football League set to play in the WSFL's 2012 season. Based in Dallas, the Knockouts play their home games at Sprague Stadium on the campus of Justin F...
  
  
• Savannah Vizionz
• Tri-State Bruisers

8-man Division

• Cape Fear Thunder
  Cape Fear Thunder
  The Cape Fear Thunder is a football team in the Women's Spring Football League based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Home games are played at John P...
  
  
• Carolina Freedom
• Desert Fire Cats
  Desert Fire Cats
  The Desert Fire Cats are a women's football team located in Palm Springs, California. They were members of the Independent Women's Football League in 2011. The team was in the league's Pacific Southwest division, along with the Modesto Maniax, three-time IWFL champion Sacramento Sirens, and the...
  
  
• Kansas City Phoenix
• Las Vegas Heat
• Nevada Storm
• Racine Pirates
• Salt City Arch Angels
• Ventura Black Widows
  Ventura Black Widows
  The Ventura Black Widows are an independent women's American football team. They had planned to join the Women's Football Alliance for its inaugural season, but later backed out...
  
  
• West Virginia Wildfire

See also

• Independent Women's Football League
  Independent Women's Football League
  The Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000, and began play in 2001.IWFL founders began with the goal to establish a quality women's football league that would be respected as the top level of women's tackle football in the world....
  
   (IWFL)
• Women's Football Alliance
  Women's Football Alliance
  The Women's Football Alliance is a full-contact Women's American football league which began play in the spring of 2009. They have now completed three full seasons and grew to over 60 teams slated for the 2011 season. The women play 11 person tackle football games with rules that basically mirror...
  
   (WFA)
• Women's Professional Football League
  Women's Professional Football League
  The Women's Professional Football League is the original and longest operating women's professional American football league in the United States. Now with teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota...
  
   (WPFL)
• National Women's Football Association
  National Women's Football Association
  The National Women's Football Association was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in...
  
   (NWFA)
• Women's American Football League
  Women's American Football League
  The Women's American Football League was a women's football league that was formed in 2001. After disbanding, the teams merged with the Women's Affiliated Football Conference , the Independent Women's Football League and the American Football Women's League , itself now disbanded.-Teams:*Arizona...
  
   (WAFL)
• American Football Women's League
  American Football Women's League
  The American Football Women's League which debuted on May 15, 2002, was one of the first women's football leagues formed, originally using the name WAFL, or Women's American Football League in 2001...
  
   (AWFL)
• Women's Football League
  Women's Football League
  The Women's Football League was a small women's American football team that began playing in 2002. Its last season was in 2007. It was composed of three teams, one in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina, the Jacksonville Dixie Blues, who now play in the Women's...
  
   (WFL)
• List of leagues of American football

External links

• Women's Spring Football League official website