- Source: 2019 LFL US season
The 2019 LFL US season was the 10th and final season of the Legends Football League (LFL) in the United States. It began April 5 and concluded on August 10.
Developments
Shortly after the 2018 season ended, the LFL originally elected to hold the 2019 Legends Cup in South Africa's capital city of Johannesburg at Ellis Park Arena. However, this never took place.
In November 2018, defending champion Chicago Bliss head coach Keith Hac and his entire coaching staff resigned in protest of league policies and decisions. Three weeks later the league hired Danville coach JaDae Maguire as a replacement. Maguire did not mesh well with the Bliss and his tenure was short before a new coach, Sidney Lewis, was brought in. In addition to retirements at the end of the previous season, Chicago saw an exodus of many remaining players leaving them with only four returning starters. Chicago would finish the season 0–4, their worst record ever and only their second losing record, and failed to make the playoffs for only the second time ever.
On December 21, 2018, Chris Michaelson, who previously served as the head coach of the Seattle Mist, returned to that franchise as head coach once again. He spent the 2018 season serving as offensive coordinator of the upstart Nashville Knights. For the purpose of rebuilding the Mist franchise to its previous form, Michaelson replaced interim coach Eric Bellamy, who had been named the Mist's interim coach for 2018 after Michelson's supposed retirement in the off-season following a Legends Cup-winning season in 2017. Michaelson previously served as the Mist head coach from 2009 to 2017, leading that franchise to two Legends Cup championship titles.
In early 2019, the LFL announced a new broadcast partner in Honduran television network TDTV.
On June 19, 2019, the league announced a change in the playoff format. Instead of the two best teams from each conference playing for their respective conference titles, the league would abandon the conference titles and pit the top four teams with the best records in an elimination tournament. The team with the best record would play the team with the fourth best record while the teams with the second and third best records would play one another. The immediate effect of this change mid-season was to scramble the playoff standings; Chicago was immediately statistically eliminated, Omaha, which had needed only a victory over winless Denver, suddenly needed to also defeat Atlanta, and Los Angeles could still make the playoffs if Austin beat Nashville in the regular season finale.
Teams
= Eastern Conference
== Western Conference
=LFL Pro Bowl
Eastern
Western
Schedule
= Regular season
== Postseason
== Showcase Game
=Standings
x - clinched playoff berth
Playoffs
Semifinals were played on August 24, 2019, at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. Legends Cup 2019 was played on September 7, 2019, at the Accesso ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington, instead of South Africa as originally planned. In the 2018 State of the League address delivered by Commissioner Mitchell Mortaza, the 2020 Legends Cup was expected to be the first of upcoming Legends Cups to be played abroad in international destinations; however, that was scrapped when the league decided not to hold its next season. The schedule on LFLUS.com was updated on June 19, 2019, to show the Legends Cup had been moved. On the same day, the league announced the playoff format would change, with the conference championship title removed. Instead, the top teams from both conference would be ranked 1–4, with 1st facing 4th and 2nd facing 3rd.
Awards
League MVP
Amber Clark - Atlanta Steam
Miriah Lopez - Los Angeles Temptation
Jade Randle - Seattle Mist
Stevi Schnoor - Seattle Mist
Offensive Player of the Year
Kassandra Bills - Austin Acoustic
ChrisDell Harris - Austin Acoustic
Miriah Lopez - Los Angeles Temptation
Stevi Schnoor - Seattle Mist
Team of the Year
Austin Acoustic
Omaha Heart
Nashville Knights
Seattle Mist
Defensive Player of the Year
Alli Alberts - Seattle Mist
Amber Clark - Atlanta Steam
Britney Dowdy - Austic Acoustic
Jade Randle - Seattle Mist
Coach of the Year
Dontae Allen / Cale Good - Omaha Heart
Yuri Howard - Nashville Knights
Chris Michaelson - Seattle Mist
Mike Olvera - Austin Acoustic
Coaching Staff of the Year
Atlanta Steam
Austin Acoustic
Nashville Knights
Seattle Mist
In The Trenches (Line)
Lindsey Burse - Omaha Heart
Britney Dowdy - Austic Acoustic
Lauren Jay - Omaha Heart
Dina Wojowski - Atlanta Steam
Rookie of the Year
Lauren Crouch - Omaha Heart
Nicole Hulce - Atlanta Steam
Bre Mosley - Nashville Knights
Emma Vanderheyden - Chicago Bliss
Mortaza Award
Jessica Bateman - Austin Acoustic
Lindsi Cash - Los Angeles Temptation
Nicole Curry - Denver Dream
Austina Mellberg - Nashville Knights
True 8th Man Award
Jessica Bateman - Austin Acoustic
Mike McGhee - Seattle Mist
Jessica Robinson - Atlanta Steam
2015 LFL Hall of Fame Induction
- Danika Brace
Notes
1. ^ ^ Omaha finished ahead of Nashville in the standings as a result of their 49-25 head-to-head victory on June 1, 2019.
References
External links
Legends Football League - official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 2019 LFL US season
- X League (women's football)
- Legends Cup (LFL)
- 2018 LFL US season
- Nashville Knights (football)
- Los Angeles Temptation
- Seattle Thunder
- Chicago Bliss
- Denver Rush
- Chicago Blitz (X League)
