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Due to the increase in team numbers and anticipated increases in future year, the IAFL has adopted a divisional format for the 2007 season. Each of the 9 teams will play in one of 3 divisions as follows: IAFL North: Belfast Bulls, Belfast Trojans, Carrickfergus Knights. IAFL Central: DCU Saints, Dublin Dragons, Dublin Rebels. IAFL South: Cork Admirals, Univ Limerick Vikings, Tallaght Outlaws. The IAFL wants to add a 4th team to each of the three divisions in 2008 – candidates are Craigavon, Galway, Midlands & South East. Each team will play 8 regular season games between March and end June/start July. Play-offs will take place in July with the Championship game – Shamrock Bowl XXI on Sunday July 29th. They will play each team in their Division twice and 4 of the other 6 teams once. The 3 Division winners along with 2 wildcard teams will qualify for the play-offs. The duration of the season has been shortened by approximately 1 month as, due to larger squad sizes, teams are able to play competitive games more frequently. The number of games played by each team is the same and the total number of games played in the league has increased due to the addition of a ninth team – the most that has ever contested a season in Ireland. Seven of the eight teams who played last season are returning. Two new teams have been added, thus increasing the number to nine. The addition of the Belfast Trojans creates a new cross town rivalry in that city. The Tallaght Outlaws, who become the first Tallaght based team to play competitively in more than a decade, are the other new team. The defunct North Dublin Marshals are no longer IAFL members due to their failure to comply with league standards. Most
teams will kick-off their regular season over the weekend of March
25th. The new College Championship game (played earlier in March)
contested between the two university based teams will also count
towards the IAFL standings. Defending Champions, the Dublin Rebels,
will kick off the first weekend of regular season games against
the DCU Saints. Kick-off times and venues for all IAFL games will
be confirmed later this month.
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