Central Division

Midlands Division (2028)

Teams

The Central Division was introduced for the 2025 BFL season and became part of the United Conference, along with the South Division and is made up of four teams of which Birmingham Bandits, Sherwood Forest Outlaws and Thames Valley Thunder previously played in the South Division. Teams are based in the Midlands and Central England.

Division Champions and the two next best teams, expanding to three next best teams for the 2028 BFL season, in the United Conference compete for a place in the United Conference Playoffs.

Learn more about the BFL Expansion Roadmap: 2026–2028.

In 2028, the division will be renamed the Midlands Division when the Thames Valley Thunder return to the South Division who will be replaced by an additional Midlands based expansion team, Coventry Rebels, to keep it at four teams.

Division Navigation

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• Team names
• Division Archive
• Division History
• Division Champions

Division Teams

Teams in pink will be leaving this division in 2028.

TEAMS		JOINED	UC	BFL	STADIUM
	BIRMINGHAM BANDITS	2015	5	2	VILLA PARK (BIRMINGHAM)
	Coventry Rebels	2028	0	0	Coventry Building Society Arena (Coventry)
	LEICESTER STALLIONS	2025	0	0	King Power Stadium (LEICESTER)
	SHERWOOD FOREST OUTLAWS	2019	1	1	CITY GROUND (NOTTINGHAM)
	THAMES VALLEY THUNDER	2021	0	0	STADIUM MK (MILTON KEYNES)

Recent Changes

New logos and helmets were introduced by the Birmingham Bandits (2025), Leicester Stallions (2025 & 2026), Sherwood Forest Outlaws (2025 & 2026) & Thames Valley Thunder (2025).

2028 changes

Team Names

Teams adhere to the Team Rules.

Birmingham Bandits is the second largest city in the UK. Its nickname is as an alternative name to their tenants at Villa Park, Premier League team Aston Villa who are nicknamed the Villains. Its logo is inspired by that used by the Arizona/Oklahoma Outlaws of the USFL team that played from 1983-1985 an dcolours from an alternative helmet used by the Ohio State Buckeyes college football team.

Coventry Rebels (2028) are inspired by their rivals Birmingham Bandits and use a mix of the colour blue including a hint of sky blue as homage to the association football team Coventry City F.C. who play at the same stadium.

Leicester Stallions are unrelated to any team represented by the city and inspired by the CFL's only North American Grey Cup Champions Baltimore Stallions who played from 1994-1995.

Sherwood Forest Outlaws is an ancient royal forest in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England, which is associated with the legend of Robin Hood, a known outlaw in folklore who is most closely associated with his stance of "robbing the rich to give to the poor".

Thames Valley Thunder is a geographical and political area in South East England around the River Thames west of London that covers the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire but the area can also include Buckinghamshire and Swindon. Their nickname is a resurrection of the nickname used by the defunct NFL Europe team Berlin Thunder that played from 1999-2007. However, it is unrelated to the resurrected Berlin Thunder who played in the European League of Football (ELF) and now in the new American Football League Europe (AFLE). Its logo has changed to a more related logo to that of the team name whereby the hammer represents the letter 'T' and the letter 'V' for Valley to showcase Thames Valley and keeping the hammer to reference the historic Thunder stylised logo. They will return to the South Division, last played in 2024 season when they joined this division in 2025.

Archive

This represents changes in logos and helmets only, teams with no changes to either logo or helmet are represented in the Teams section.

BIRMINGHAM BANDITS

Logos

2025

2015

Helmets

2025

2015

LEICESTER STALLIONS

Logos

2026

2025

2025

Helmets

2025

2025

2025

Sherwood Forest Outlaws

Logos

2025

2025

2021

2019

Helmets

2026

2025

2025

2021

2019

Thames Valley Thunder

Logos

2026

2025

2021

Helmets

2025

2025

2021

DIVISION CHAMPIONS

The current season champions and standings are listed below.

SEASON	TEAM
2025		SHERWOOD FOREST OUTLAWS (1)

Division Standings

Team		T	RT
	Sherwood Forest Outlaws	1	2025
	BIRMINGHAM BANDITS	0	0
	LEICESTER STALLIONS	0	0
	THAMES VALLEY THUNDER	0	0

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