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First played
  
August 1, 1987

Trophy
  
Foster Trophy

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The ArenaBowl is the Arena Football League's championship game. It currently airs on ESPN. From 1987 to 2004, the ArenaBowl was hosted by either the team with the better regular-season record or the higher seeding in the playoffs. From ArenaBowl XIX in 2005 until ArenaBowl XXII in 2008, the game was played at a neutral site. When the AFL returned from a bankruptcy-induced hiatus in 2010, the original format was used for this and the next season; for 2012 and 2013, the game returned to being played at a neutral site. In 2014, it was announced that the ArenaBowl would return to the format in which the higher-seeded team would host the game.

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The bas-relief football players on the trophy were originally sculpted in Azbro Wax by Massachusetts sculptor James Linehan for the company New England Pewter.

The current ArenaBowl Champions are the Philadelphia Soul, who won their second ArenaBowl championship in 2016.

The 2016 ArenaBowl was played on August 26 between the Philadelphia Soul and the Arizona Rattlers, the third time in the past five years that these two teams have met in the ArenaBowl.

Results

* Neutral Site

  • The Pittsburgh Gladiators relocated in 1991 to become the Tampa Bay Storm.
  • The Nashville Kats relocated in 2002 to become the Georgia Force. The Kats were brought back as an expansion team in 2005 and assumed all former team history up to the point when the original Kats relocated to Georgia. The Force are regarded as a completely separate team and keep records from their establishment in 2002 to the present, similar to the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens situation in the NFL.

    • Most championships won

    As of ArenaBowl XXIX

    Standings

    As of ArenaBowl XXIX

    *includes two appearances as Pittsburgh Gladiators (0–2, 42 points, 84 points allowed)

    Coaching records

    As of ArenaBowl XXIX

    *both Haering and Jackson coached the 1989 Pittsburgh Gladiators, but Jackson is credited with the postseason games

    References

    ArenaBowl Wikipedia
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