Sioux City Bandits


The Sioux City Bandits are a professional indoor football team based in Sioux City, Iowa. The Bandits compete in Champions Indoor Football as a member of the league's North Conference. The team was founded in 1999 as the Sioux City Attack. In 2001, the team assumed their current name of the Bandits. The Bandits joined the CIF as result of the merger in 2014. The Bandits play their home games at the Tyson Events Center.

History

In 2000, the Sioux City Attack joined the original Indoor Football League. After this season concluded, the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League bought out all but two of the league's teams. Once they were founded, the Sioux City Bandits assumed identity of the Attack. The organization has seen seven different leagues as the Attack played in the previously mentioned original IFL. The Bandits have played in the National Indoor Football League, United Indoor Football, the new Indoor Football League, American Professional Football League, the Champions Professional Indoor Football League, and now Champions Indoor Football. Notable team feats include the signing of former Sioux City running back Fred Jackson by the Buffalo Bills of the NFL. Upon returning for NFL training camp, Jackson was selected to be just one of 8 on the team's practice squad. Jackson is currently listed on the Buffalo Bills 53 man roster. Jackson, out of Coe College, was the 2005 United Indoor Football's league leading rusher in which he set an Indoor Football record for most yards in a single season with more than 1,700. That year the Bandits hosted the championship game facing their bitter rival Sioux Falls Storm. Sioux City had beaten Sioux Falls three times during the regular season, but ended up losing the championship game, 40-38.

Notable games

Players

Current roster

Bandits Ring of Honor

Season-by-season

Records vs. opponents

OpponentOverallHomeAwayPost.
Amarillo Venom
Billings Outlaws
Bismarck Blaze
Bismarck Bucks
Bismarck Roughriders
Black Hills/Rapid City Red Dogs
Bloomington Extreme/Edge
Cheyenne Warriors**
Chicago Eagles
Colorado Ice
Colorado Lightning**
Dodge City Law
Erie Invaders
Evansville BlueCats
Fairbanks Grizzlies
Fargo Freeze
Fort Wayne Freedom
Green Bay Blizzard
Iowa Blackhawks/Council Bluffs Express/Lincoln Haymakers
Johnstown Jackyls
Kansas City Matadors
Kansas City Phantoms
Kansas City Renegades
Kansas Koyotes
La Crosse Night Train
La Crosse Spartans
Lexington Horsemen
Lincoln Lightning/Capitols
Mesquite/Dallas Marshals
Mid-Missouri Outlaws
Ohio Valley Greyhounds
Oklahoma Crude
Oklahoma Defenders
Omaha Beef
Peoria Pirates/Rough Riders
Saginaw Sting
Salina Bombers
Salina Liberty
Sioux Falls Cobras/Storm**
Show-Me Believers/RiverCity Renegades/Rage
Southern Oregon Heat
Springfield Wolfpack
Stockton Wolves
Tennessee Valley/Rock River Raptors
Texas Revolution
Topeka Knights
Tri-City Diesel
Utah Warriors
West Michigan Ironmen
Wichita Force
Wichita Warlords
Wichita Wild
Wyoming Cavalry
Yakima Shockwave
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*= Denotes a win due to opponent forfeit

Head coaches