The San Diego Strike Force has announced their 2025 IFL schedule.
2025 will mark the seventeenth season for the Indoor Football League with 14 member franchises. The league will welcome the Fishers Freight as the league's newest team, located in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Returning to action are the 2024 National Champion Arizona Rattlers, Bay Area Panthers, Green Bay Blizzard, Iowa Barnstormers, Jacksonville Sharks, Massachusetts Pirates, Northern Arizona Wranglers, Quad City Steamwheelers, San Antonio Gunslingers, San Diego Strike Force, Sioux Falls Storm, Tucson Sugar Skulls, Tulsa Oilers and Vegas Knight Hawks.
The Frisco Fighters (Frisco, TX) and Duke City Gladiators (Rio Rancho, NM) will be going dormant in 2025, retaining their rights to reenter the league in 2026.
The 2025 season will consist of a 19 week regular season with a 16 total games and fifteen of those contests being against Western Conference foes. San Diego's lone non-conference match-up will be against the Fisher Freight located in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana in week 18.
Eight of the team's regular season games will be against 2024 postseason contenders, including two match-ups in July against the defending IFL champions in the Arizona Rattlers.
San Diego will kick off training camp in March. Their official report date and training camp schedule will be released at a later date.
| Week |
Date |
Opponent |
Kickoff (PT) |
| Week 1 |
TBA |
Training Camp |
TBA |
| Week 2 |
Monday, March 31 |
vs Vegas Knight Hawks* |
7:05 PM |
| Week 3 |
Saturday, April 5 |
at Bay Area Panthers* |
TBA |
| Week 4 |
Friday, April 11 |
at Vegas Knight Hawks* |
7:05 PM |
| Week 5 |
April 19 |
Bye Week |
|
| Week 6 |
Sunday, April 27 |
vs Tucson Sugar Skulls* |
7:05 PM |
| Week 7 |
Sunday, May 4 |
at Bay Area Panthers* |
TBA |
| Week 8 |
Sunday, May 11 |
vs Northern Arizona Wranglers* |
6:05 PM |
| Week 9 |
Saturday, May 17 |
at San Antonio Gunslingers* |
4:05 PM |
| Week 10 |
Sunday, May 25 |
vs Vegas Knight Hawks |
6:05 PM |
| Week 11 |
Friday, May 30 |
vs Northern Arizona Wranglers |
6:05 PM |
| Week 12 |
Saturday, June 7 |
at Tucson Sugar Skulls* |
6:05 PM |
| Week 13 |
Saturday, June 14 |
at Northern Arizona Wranglers* |
5:05 PM |
| Week 14 |
Sunday, June 22 |
vs San Antonio Gunslingers* |
6:05 PM |
| Week 15 |
June 28 |
Bye Week |
|
| Week 16 |
Monday, July 7 |
vs Bay Area Panthers* |
6:05 PM |
| Week 17 |
Saturday, July 12 |
at Arizona Rattlers* |
6:05 PM |
| Week 18 |
Saturday, July 19 |
at Fishers Freight |
5:05 PM |
| Week 19 |
Sunday, July 27 |
vs Arizona Rattlers* |
6:05 PM |
The IFL playoffs will begin the weekend of August 2nd, followed by the conference championships the followed weekend (August 9). Those moving on to the IFL championship game will receive a bye week before the game occur on the weekend of August 23rd.
Strike Force season tickets are now available for home games at Frontwave Arena in Oceanside starting as low as $120 for eight games. For more information, visit sdstrikeforce.com.
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ABOUT THE SAN DIEGO STRIKE FORCE INDOOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM
The San Diego Strike Force is the professional football team in San Diego, CA and is a member of the Indoor Football League. The Strike Force is led by team President and General Manager Geno Gerbo, and Vice President and Community Ambassador Burt Grossman. Tickets and partnerships are available for the 2025 season. For more information, visit www.sdstrikeforce.com. You can also follow the team on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (@sdstrikeforce).
ABOUT THE INDOOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE
The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a professional indoor football league entering it's seventeenth season in 2025. The IFL was created in 2008 out of the merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football. The league consists of 14 teams for the upcoming season in two conferences with each team playing 16 games. Its teams are located from San Diego, California, to Lowell, Massachusetts, and is led by Commissioner Todd Tryon. For more information about IFL, visit www.goifl.com.
