Baltimore AFL team

The Baltimore AFL team is a professional arena football team to be based in Baltimore, Maryland, and scheduled to begin play in the Arena Football League (AFL) in 2017. The team's planned home arena is the Royal Farms Arena. The franchise is owned by Monumental Sports & Entertainment (Ted Leonsis, chairman), which also owns the Washington Valor of the AFL, Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).

History

The Arena Football League and Monumental Sports & Entertainment both announced on November 14, 2016, that it had granted an expansion franchise to begin play for the 2017 season in Baltimore.^[1] Monumental Sports & Entertainment is operated by Ted Leonsis, the majority owner, who had also previously been granted an expansion team in the Washington Valor to begin play the same season.

Although other indoor football leagues have hosted teams in Baltimore in the past (such as the Baltimore Blackbirds and Baltimore Mariners), this is the first Arena Football League franchise to be located in Baltimore, and the first in the state of Maryland since the Washington/Maryland Commandos, a charter league franchise that played in the DC suburb of Landover for its first two seasons.

References

External links

• Official website
• Baltimore AFL team on Facebook
• Baltimore AFL team on Twitter

Sports teams based in Maryland
Australian rules football	USAFL/EAFL/WAFA Baltimore Washington Eagles
Baseball	MLB Baltimore Orioles EL Bowie Baysox CL Frederick Keys SAL Delmarva Shorebirds Hagerstown Suns NYPL Aberdeen IronBirds AtL Southern Maryland Blue Crabs
Basketball	APBL Bay Area Shuckers ABA Baltimore Hawks
Football	NFL Baltimore Ravens Washington Redskins AFL Baltimore WFA Baltimore Nighthawks D.C. Divas
Lacrosse	MLL Chesapeake Bayhawks
Roller derby	WFTDA Charm City Roller Girls Mason-Dixon Roller Vixens Salisbury Roller Girls MRDA Harm City Roller Derby
Rugby union	MARFU Baltimore-Chesapeake Maryland Exiles
Soccer	MASL Baltimore Blast PDL Baltimore Bohemians ASL IFK Maryland National Women's Soccer League Washington Spirit
College athletics (NCAA Division I)	Coppin State Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse Johns Hopkins Blue Jays women's lacrosse Loyola Maryland Maryland-Baltimore County Maryland-Eastern Shore Morgan State Mount St. Mary's Navy Towson
Main article: Sports in Maryland