ArenaBowl: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The ArenaBowl is the championship game of the Arena Football League. Originally hosted at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena based on home attendance during the inaugural 1987 season, save four years (2005–2008) the game was hosted by the team with the higher seed based on regular season performance. In 2005–2006 the league staged the game in Las Vegas, and in 2007–2008 New Orleans hosted the event. For the series final two games, regular season home attendance between the competing teams determined which would host.

Originally using year-based nomenclature ("ArenaBowl '87"), the league would begin consistently referring to the game using roman numerals beginning in 1994 ("ArenaBowl VIII"). The original Arena Football League's 2009 bankruptcy liquidation brought the league's existence to a close, but ArenaBowl XXIII would be staged in 2010 as the championship game of a new league which assumed the AFL's intellectual properties. The final ten games of the series would be staged under the "new" Arena Football League, concluding with ArenaBowl XXXII between the Albany Empire and Philadelphia Soul. The second AFL ultimately had the same fate as the first, ceasing operations after its 2019 season and undergoing Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.

The ArenaBowl will be revived in 2024 and will be played at a neutral site.

Series details

• Title: ArenaBowl
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1987-08-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2024-07-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBS Sports Network
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 210 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 78358

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1987: premiered 1987-08-01; final listed air date 1987-08-01; episode order: 1.
• Season 1988: premiered 1988-07-30; final listed air date 1988-07-30.
• Season 1989: premiered 1989-08-18; final listed air date 1989-08-18.
• Season 1990: premiered 1990-08-11; final listed air date 1990-08-11.
• Season 1991: premiered 1991-08-17; final listed air date 1991-08-17.
• Season 1992: premiered 1992-08-22; final listed air date 1992-08-22.
• Season 1993: premiered 1993-08-21; final listed air date 1993-08-21.
• Season 1994: premiered 1994-09-02; final listed air date 1994-09-02.
• Season 1995: premiered 1995-09-01; final listed air date 1995-09-01.
• Season 1996: premiered 1996-08-26; final listed air date 1996-08-26.
• Season 1997: premiered 1997-08-25; final listed air date 1997-08-25.
• Season 1998: premiered 1998-08-23; final listed air date 1998-08-23.
• Season 1999: premiered 1999-08-21; final listed air date 1999-08-21.
• Season 2000: premiered 2000-08-20; final listed air date 2000-08-20.
• Season 2001: premiered 2001-08-19; final listed air date 2001-08-19.
• Season 2002: premiered 2002-08-18; final listed air date 2002-08-18.
• Season 2003: premiered 2003-06-22; final listed air date 2003-06-22.
• Season 2004: premiered 2004-06-27; final listed air date 2004-06-27; episode order: 1.
• Season 2005: premiered 2005-06-12; final listed air date 2005-06-12; episode order: 1.
• Season 2006: premiered 2006-06-11; final listed air date 2006-06-11; episode order: 1.
• Season 2007: premiered 2007-07-29; final listed air date 2007-07-29; episode order: 1.
• Season 2008: premiered 2008-07-27; final listed air date 2008-07-27; episode order: 1.
• Season 2010: premiered 2010-08-20; final listed air date 2010-08-20; episode order: 1.
• Season 2011: premiered 2011-08-12; final listed air date 2011-08-12; episode order: 1.
• Season 2012: premiered 2012-08-10; final listed air date 2012-08-10; episode order: 1.
• Season 2013: premiered 2013-08-17; final listed air date 2013-08-17; episode order: 1.
• Season 2014: premiered 2014-08-23; final listed air date 2014-08-23.
• Season 2015: premiered 2015-08-29; final listed air date 2015-08-29; episode order: 1.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-08-26; final listed air date 2016-08-26; episode order: 1.
• Season 2017: premiered 2017-08-26; final listed air date 2017-08-26; episode order: 1.

Source and licence

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