Lingerie Football League To Expand Beyond Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Legends Football League announced today it plans to expand from eight teams of the once-called Lingerie Football League into 33 markets and eventually into Canada and overseas. The expansion would open up the league to hundreds of additional players and give LA's Temptation more teams to compete against.

The current eight teams include:

Atlanta Steam
Austin Acoustic
Chicago Bliss
Denver Dream
Los Angeles Temptation
Nashville Knights
Omaha Heart
Seattle Mist

In a press release on Wednesday, the LFL announced "The LFL’s primary focus will be to build out its US league, however the LFL continues to develop strategy for the launch of LFL Canada, LFL Australia and LFL Europa."

In the States, the LFL has already secured ownership groups in Nashville and Houston and is in active talks as it relates to New York / New Jersey, Arizona, San Francisco, Washington DC / Northern Virginia, North Carolina, Kansas City and Philadelphia.

"These past nine years have been spent tirelessly working to establish a brand and sport that was non-existent prior to 2009. In a very short period of time, in relation to brand evolution standards in sports, especially women’s sport, we have built a sport that has been played in nearly every major continent at major arenas and stadiums, broadcast to over 200+ television markets and drawn stadium crowds of over 22,000 spectators", said Mitchell Mortaza, Managing Partner.

LFL USA Growth Cities

SEATTLE

SAN FRANCISCO

LOS ANGELES

PHOENIX/SCOTTSDALE

LAS VEGAS

DENVER

DALLAS

HOUSTON

KANSAS CITY

MINNESOTA

NEW ORLEANS

OMAHA

CHICAGO

GREEN BAY

NASHVILLE

INDIANAPOLIS

DETROIT

CINCINNATI

ATLANTA

TAMPA BAY

JACKSONVILLE

MIAMI

ATLANTA

CAROLINA

WASHINGTON DC / NORTHERN VIRGINIA

BALTIMORE

CINCINNATI

PITTSBURGH

PHILADELPHIA

CLEVELAND

BUFFALO

NEW YORK

NEW ENGLAND

By Scott McDonald, Patch Staff

Image: Amber Reed #10 of the Los Angeles Temptation runs for yardage against Shanae Thomas #17 of the Philadelphia Passion during the Lingerie Football League's Lingerie Bowl IX at the Orleans Arena February 5, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Los Angeles won 28-6. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)