Overview
The largest women's tackle football league in the United States, with clubs across three competitive divisions.
The Women's Football Alliance is the largest and longest-running women's tackle football league in the United States. Clubs are grouped into three divisions by competitive level and play a spring and summer season, with each division crowning its own national champion.
Players are amateurs who fund much of their own participation. The league supplies most of the United States squad for the IFAF Women's World Championship, which the American team has won at every edition.
Season Format
History
The WFA formed in 2009 from clubs that had played in earlier women's leagues dating back to the 1970s, and grew as those rivals folded. It now operates the great majority of women's tackle clubs in the country.
The sport's Olympic prospects rest with flag football rather than tackle: flag will debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, and several WFA players have moved across to the national flag programme.
Governance
The league is privately operated and plays under NCAA rules with minor modifications. The international body for the sport is IFAF.