TEAMS

The BFL is remaining at 12 teams because this keeps the league competitive and means that NFL affiliates will not always be affiliated with the same BFL teams each season.

DIVISIONS

NORTH DIVISION	2015
SOUTH DIVISION	2015

TEAM NAMES

Teams are primarily given names from leagues past and present, others are based on unrelated college football teams and one is not inspired by any current team past or present. Names in brackets are those where BFL teams have received inspiration for their name or logo.

As this league began in 2015, the Tampa Bay Bandits (USFL 1983) had not existed since the planned 1986 season and therefore they are not to be confused with the recently relaunched Tampa Bay Bandits and are inspired by the previous incarnation of this team.

REGIONS

These are the regions represented by each team which means that future expansion may overlap these regions similar to that in Scotland. The city in brackets represents the location of the team unless stated by the team name.

Country	Team
Birmingham Bandits	West Midlands
Caledonian Knights	Western Scotland (Glasgow)
London Monarchs	Capital region including Surrey, Essex & Kent
Manchester Demons	Greater Manchester including Cheshire & Lancashire
Merseyside Centurions	Merseyside (Liverpool)
Scottish Claymores	Eastern Scotland (Edinburgh)
Sherwood Forest Outlaws	East Midlands (Nottingham)
Sussex Pirates	East & West Sussex (Brighton)
Thames Valley Thunder	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (Milton Keynes)
Tyneside Mariners	North & South Tyneside (Newcastle)
Welsh Dragons	Wales (Cardiff)
Yorkshire Vikings	N,S,E & W Yorkshire (Leeds)

SUB-REGIONS

These are locations of cities based within the above regions that could host a future BFL expansion team:

East Midlands: Leicester

West Midlands: Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent & Wolverhampton.

Scotland: Aberdeen & Kilmarnock (Highlands)

Thames Valley: Reading (Berkshire)

Wales: Swansea

Wearside: Sunderland is in the North East of England but not covered by Tyneside.

Yorkshire: Hull (Humberside including North East Lincolnshire), Middlesborough (Teesside) and Sheffield.

SMALLER SUB-REGIONS

Within the above sub-regions, there are cities which could host teams that have smaller stadiums.

NFL AFFILIATES

As of the 2024 season, 30 teams have been affiliated with BFL teams.

2 teams (New York Jets and Washington Commanders) have yet to be affiliated.

2 teams (Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots) are the most common affiliations with 7 appearances.