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===Continuing teams===

When AF2 folded, some teams joined the AF2 Board of Directors in forming the new "Arena Football 1" that soon became the new Arena Football League. Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley (which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all moved to the new AFL to join "old" AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the [[American Indoor Football]] team in Utah that had also been in the old AFL. Kentucky, Tri-Cities, and Arkansas also committed to the new league, but Kentucky folded, and Tri-Cities and Arkansas followed Green Bay and Amarillo to the [[Indoor Football League]].  Albany did not play in 2010 while seeking an expansion into the "new" AFL in 2011, along with a planned addition in Toledo.

By the conclusion of the [[2015 Arena Football League season|2015 AFL Season]], none of the seven AF2 franchises that moved into the AFL remained in the league. The Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz ceased operations after the 2010 season. In the 2011 season, the Alabama Vipers relocated to [[Gwinnett County, Georgia|suburban Atlanta]] and assumed the identity and history of the former [[Georgia Force]] before folding after the 2012 season, while the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings moved to [[New Orleans]] and became a continuation of the [[New Orleans VooDoo|VooDoo]] and then ceased operations after the 2015 season.<ref name=VooDoo_folding>{{cite web |url=http://www.arenafootball.com/sports/a-footbl/spec-rel/080915aad.html |title=VooDoo, Outlaws Cease Operations |publisher=Arena Football League |work=www.arenafootballleague.com |date=August 9, 2015 |access-date=August 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811220131/http://www.arenafootball.com/sports/a-footbl/spec-rel/080915aad.html |archive-date=2015-08-11 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> The Milwaukee Iron rebranded itself in 2011 as the Mustangs, adopting the name of a [[Milwaukee Mustangs (1994–2001)|previous Milwaukee team]]. Tulsa relocated to San Antonio before the start of the 2012 season, retaining the Talons' name and history and folded after the 2014 season. Milwaukee suspended operations for the 2013 season, and the team relocated to [[Portland, Oregon]] for the 2014 season, becoming the [[Portland Thunder]], later renamed the [[Portland Steel|Steel]] before ultimately folding after the 2016 AFL season.<ref name="AFL Portland">{{cite web|title=Arena Football to Return to Portland in 2014|url=http://www.arenafootball.com/sports/a-footbl/spec-rel/100913aac.html|publisher=Arena Football League|access-date=2013-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019095737/http://www.arenafootball.com/sports/a-footbl/spec-rel/100913aac.html|archive-date=2013-10-19|url-status=usurped}}</ref> After the 2014 AFL season, the Iowa Barnstormers changed leagues from the AFL to the Indoor Football League. After the conclusion of the 2015 season, the last AF2 team remaining in the AFL, the Spokane Shock, joined the Barnstormers in the IFL as the [[Spokane Empire]], and then also folded in 2017.

After the conclusion of the [[2019 Arena Football League season|2019 AFL season]], the Arena Football League filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceased operations in November 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gleeson |first1=Scott |title=Arena Football League files for bankruptcy, ceases all operations |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2019/11/27/arena-football-league-declares-bankruptcy-shuts-down/4322126002/ |access-date=April 24, 2020 |work=USA Today |date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>