BRITISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE

BRITISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE kicked-off in 2015 and is a fantasy football league to my love of the game of Gridiron Football and the NFL. Alex Thomas is the BFL Commissioner and the BFL does not own the rights to the teams and their logos and are used for entertainment purposes only.

In 2025, the BFL introduced a new logo, keeping in line with the UK flag American Football theme but adding 'BFL' text instead of the previously used rotated 'B' logo stylised from the original London Monarchs logo as this also looked like a '3' instead of a 'B'.

2015-2019
2020-2024
2025-

2025 BFL logo is AI generated.

TEAMS
BRITISH CONFERENCE
UNITED CONFERENCE

The league is made up of 16 teams split into two conferences made up of 2 divisions of 4 teams each, who are 'affiliated' with an NFL team as per the final standings following the close of the previous season, in alphabetical order per BFL/NFL city/region as per the final 8 per the AFC/NFC.

The BFL limits expansion as this keeps the league competitive and means that NFL affiliates will not always be affiliated with the same BFL teams each season and possibly hinder playoff chances.

Teams are primarily given names from leagues past and present, whereas others are based on unrelated college football teams or not inspired by any current team past or present.

EXPANSION
#
2015-2018 8
2019-2020 10
2021-2024 12
2025- 16
2015-2018
8 Birmingham Bandits
London Monarchs
MANCHESTER DEMONS
SCOTTISH CLAYMORES
Sussex Pirates
TYNESIDE MARINERS
Welsh Dragons
YORKSHIRE VIKINGS
2019-2020
10 Birmingham Bandits
London Monarchs
MANCHESTER DEMONS
SCOTTISH CLAYMORES
Sussex Pirates
TYNESIDE MARINERS
Welsh Dragons
YORKSHIRE VIKINGS
CALEDONIAN KNIGHTS (E)
Sherwood Forest Outlaws (E)
2021-2024
12 Birmingham Bandits
CALEDONIAN KNIGHTS
London Monarchs
MANCHESTER DEMONS
SCOTTISH CLAYMORES
Sherwood Forest Outlaws
Sussex Pirates
TYNESIDE MARINERS
Welsh Dragons
YORKSHIRE VIKINGS
Merseyside Centurions (E)
Thames Valley Thunder (E)
2025-
16 Avon Fire
Birmingham Bandits
CALEDONIAN KNIGHTS
Humberside Destroyers
London Monarchs
MANCHESTER DEMONS
Merseyside Centurions
SCOTTISH CLAYMORES
Sherwood Forest Outlaws
Sussex Pirates
Thames Valley Thunder
TYNESIDE MARINERS
Welsh Dragons
YORKSHIRE VIKINGS
Avon Fire (E)
Humberside Destroyers (E)
LEICESTER STALLIONS (E)
SHEFFIELD SURGE (E)
playoffs

Since 2025, and prior to the 2020 season, the top two division teams contested the individual division finals, making up 8 teams and meaning that the Division champion no longer receives a bye into the Division Final but will automatically host it instead like they did from 2015-2018. From 2015-2019, the playoffs were made up of 4 teams and expanded to 6 from 2019-2024. The introduction of the Conferences and their Divisions, discontinued the Division Semi-Finals.

Top 4 per conference (8 teams) qualify for the playoffs, with Divisional Conference Finals for the 2025 season.

See BFL Rules 2-4 for further details.

The BFL Standings can be found here.

All playoff pages show '@' for away games and 'VS' for home games.

BFL Bowl began with the 2025 BFL Season, having been known as the BFL Championship Game from 2015-2024.

Wembley Stadium, London is the designated host with the designated home team on conference rotation per highest seed.

The game is contested by the British & United Conferences' champions.

SEASON WINNER SCORE LOSER STADIUM
BFL Championship Game
1
2015

BIRMINGHAM
BANDITS (1)
27 @ 17
MANCHESTER
DEMONS

WEMBLEY STADIUM
LONDON,UK
2
2016

BIRMINGHAM
BANDITS (2)
31 VS 20
SCOTTISH
CLAYMORES
3
2017

SCOTTISH
CLAYMORES (1)
23 VS 9
BIRMINGHAM
BANDITS
4
2018

SCOTTISH
CLAYMORES (2)
40 @ 30
BIRMINGHAM
BANDITS
5
2019

SCOTTISH
CLAYMORES (3)
23 VS 12
WELSH
DRAGONS
6
2020

SHERWOOD
FOREST
OUTLAWS (1)
52 VS 27
CALEDONIAN
KNIGHTS
7
2021

SCOTTISH
CLAYMORES (4)
36 VS 24
LONDON
MONARCHS
8
2022

LONDON
MONARCHS (1)
40 VS 35
CALEDONIAN
KNIGHTS
9
2023+

SUSSEX
PIRATES (1)
40 @ 36(OT)
CALEDONIAN
KNIGHTS
10
2024

LONDON
MONARCHS (2)
34 VS 24
MANCHESTER
DEMONS
BFL Bowl
11
2025

WEMBLEY STADIUM
LONDON,UK

OVERTIME

2023 + - Both teams were drawn 33-33 at the end of regular time, therefore both teams' 1st quarter points were used to decide OT (Caledonian Knights (3) & Sussex Pirates (7)

STANDINGS
Team REC A RT RA
SCOTTISH CLAYMORES 4-1 5 2021 2021
LONDON MONARCHS 2-1 3 2024 2024
BIRMINGHAM BANDITS 2-2 4 2016 2016
SUSSEX PIRATES 1-0 1 2023 2023
SHERWOOD FOREST OUTLAWS 1-0 1 2020 2020
MANCHESTER DEMONS 0-2 2 0 2024
CALEDONIAN KNIGHTS 0-3 3 0 2023
WELSH DRAGONS 0-1 1 0 2019