Arena Football League realigns with new teams for 2011.

TULSA, OK--The Arena Football League recently reorganized the structure of it’s divisions for the 2011 AFL season.

Six new teams were added to the league and it became necessary for the divisions to be realigned. Four of the teams had recent previous lives in the “former” Arena League and all of the new cities were once part of the AFL during it’s 23-year history.

The new teams are the Atlanta-Georgia Force, San Jose Sabercats, the Philadelphia Soul, Pittsburgh Power, and the Kansas City Command.. The Command will play in the National Conference’s Central Division with Chicago, Iowa, Dallas and the Talons.

The AFL alignment looks like this:

National Conference (West Division)

Arizona

San Jose

Spokane

Utah

National Conference (Central Division)

Chicago

Dallas

Iowa

Kansas City

Tulsa

American Conference (South Division)

Georgia

Jacksonville

New Orleans

Orlando

Tampa Bay

American Conference (East Division)

Cleveland

Milwaukee

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

The 2011 schedule will be released shortly. The season is expected to start the weekend of March 11.