National Club Football Association

The National Club Football Association (NCFA) is an association of collegiate American football teams. It is a member of CollClubSports and manages the NCFA National Championship.

NCFA teams are typically operated by student sports clubs rather than faculty, and do not formally form part of a school's intercollegiate athletic program. The clubs can be based at any post-secondary college or university provided the institution in question agrees to officially recognize football as a club sport. In contrast the Intercollegiate Club Football Federation (ICFF) recognizes, in addition to the above, student clubs without official sponsorship and independent programs that combine students at multiple schools that would otherwise be unable to play college football (the NCFA allows its members to play such independent teams but does not allow those teams to contest for the championship). A number of clubs have membership in both the ICFF and NCFA, especially in the midwest and south (only in the Northeast, where the ICFF's Yankee conference expelled several NCFA member teams in 2015, is there a major distinction between the two).

From 2012 through 2015, the NCFA National Championship Game was held at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia, which has also been the site of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. From 2016 through 2019, the NCFA National Championship Game was held at West Family Stadium on the campus of West Liberty University in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Teams

School Nickname City State Conference
Michigan State Spartans East Lansing Michigan Great Lakes
Oakland Golden Grizlies Rochester Michigan Great Lakes
Roosevelt Lakers Chicago Illinois Great Lakes
Loyola University Chicago Ramblers Chicago Illinois Great Lakes
UW-Milwaukee Panthers Milwaukee Wisconsin Great Lakes
SIU Edwardsville Cougars Edwardsville Illinois Great Lakes
George Mason Patriots Fairfax Virginia Mid-Atlantic East
Coppin State Eagles Baltimore Maryland Mid-Atlantic East
UNC Greensboro Spartans Greensboro North Carolina Mid-Atlantic East
Longwood Lancers Farmville Virginia Mid-Atlantic East
Toledo Rockets Toledo Ohio Mid-Atlantic West
Wright State Raiders Dayton Ohio Mid-Atlantic West
Miami of Ohio RedHawks Oxford Ohio Mid-Atlantic West
Ohio State Buckeyes Columbus Ohio Mid-Atlantic West
Pittsburgh Panthers Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Mid-Atlantic West
Eastern Connecticut Warriors Willimantic Connecticut North Atlantic
Sacred Heart Pioneers Fairfield Connecticut North Atlantic
Clarkson Golden Knights Potsdam New York North Atlantic
Johnson & Wales Wildcats Providence Rhode Island North Atlantic
Vermont Catamounts Burlington Vermont North Atlantic
Gordon State College Highlanders Barnesville Georgia South Atlantic
Columbus State Cougars Columbus Georgia South Atlantic
Ole Miss Rebels University Mississippi South Atlantic
Fort Lauderdale Eagles Fort Lauderdale Florida South Atlantic
Middle Georgia Knights Macon Georgia South Atlantic

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