Northeastern Football Alliance

The Northeastern Football Alliance is an amateur-semiprofessional American football league based mostly in upstate New York. It is formerly known as the New York Amateur Football League, which split off from the Mid Continental Football League in the mid-1990s after the MCFL contracted into the midwest.

The NFA shares territory with the Empire Football League; most of the NFA's teams are in western and central New York whereas the EFL mostly covers the eastern half of the state.

As of the end of 2008, Minor League Football News has two NFA teams, the Albany Metro Mallers and Monroe County Sting, as the two best teams in all of semiprofessional football.

Teams

 * Buffalo Gladiators (plays at Kunz Stadium, University at Buffalo)
 * Cortland Bulldogs
 * Jamestown Chiefs - Added February 2009.
 * Lyndonville Tigers
 * Southern Tier Diesel/Olean Diesel (plays at Bradner Stadium) Originally based in Wayland and serving Hornell, the team moved to Olean on December 17, 2008.
 * Oneida County Titans (third team to represent the area. Previous teams include the Rome Rampage and Mohawk Valley Vikings)
 * Troy's Fighting Irish
 * Watertown Revolution

Historically, at least one team has represented the Rochester and Syracuse areas. The Central New York Express had been in existence since the 1980s, but disbanded and were replaced by the Syracuse Shock in 2008 and 2009; the Shock will join the North American Football League in 2010. Meanwhile, in Rochester, the long-established Monroe County Sting were members of the league for its entire existence until jumping to the United States Football Alliance in 2010.

NFA/NYAFL past Champions

 * 2010 Troy's Fighting Irish
 * 2009 Monroe County Sting
 * 2008 Albany Metro Mallers
 * 2007 Monroe County Sting
 * 2006 Buffalo Gladiators
 * 2005 Monroe County Sting
 * 2004 Buffalo Gladiators
 * 2003 Central NY Express (currently Syracuse Shock)
 * 2002 Buffalo Gladiators
 * 2001 Buffalo Gladiators
 * 2000 Buffalo Gladiators
 * 1999 Buffalo Gladiators
 * 1998 Batavia Titans (defunct)
 * 1997 Buffalo Gladiators