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The American Conference - East Division is a division of the Arena Football League's American Conference. There are currently three teams that reside in the division: Cleveland Gladiators of Cleveland, New Orleans VooDoo of New Orleans and the Philadelphia Soul of Philadelphia. It was first formed in 1995 as part of the National Conference when expansion brought up the current divisions. Since the division's enfranchisement in 1995, the division has represented in 5 ArenaBowls and won 2 of them, with the most recent during the 2008 Arena Football League season by the Philadelphia Soul. The most recent appearance in the ArenaBowl by an East team was the Soul in ArenaBowl XXVI. ==Division lineups== 1995 and 1996 *Albany Firebirds *Charlotte Rage *Connecticut Coyotes Creation of the Eastern Division as part of National Conference. Albany moved in from American Conference. Connecticut Coyotes enfranchised. 1997 *Albany Firebirds *Nashville Kats *New Jersey Red Dogs *New York Cityhawks Charlotte and Connecticut folded. Nashville, New Jersey, and New York are enfranchised. 1998 *Albany Firebirds *New Jersey Red Dogs *New York Cityhawks Nashville moved to National Conference's Southern Division. 1999 and 2000 *Albany Firebirds *Buffalo Destroyers *New England Sea Wolves *New Jersey Red Dogs Buffalo Destroyers enfranchised. New York moved to Hartford, Connecticut as New England Sea Wolves. 2001 *Buffalo Destroyers *Carolina Cobras *New Jersey Gladiators *New York Dragons *Toronto Phantoms As Indiana Firebirds, Albany moved to Indianapolis, Indiana as part of the American Conference's Central Division. Carolina moved in from Southern Division. Iowa Barnstormers moved to Uniondale, New York as New York Dragons. New England moved to Toronto as the Phantoms. New Jersey Red Dogs renamed the Gladiators. 2002 *Buffalo Destroyers *New Jersey Gladiators *New York Dragons *Toronto Phantoms Carolina moved back to Southern Division. 2003 *Buffalo Destroyers *Detroit Fury *Las Vegas Gladiators *New York Dragons Detroit moved in from Central Division. New Jersey moved to Las Vegas. Toronto Phantoms folded. 2004 *Carolina Cobras *Columbus Destroyers *Dallas Desperados *New York Dragons *Philadelphia Soul Buffalo moved to Columbus, Ohio. Dallas moved in from Central Division. Detroit moved back to Central Division as well. Las Vegas moved to American Conference's Western Division. Philadelphia Soul enfranchised. 2005–2007 *Columbus Destroyers *Dallas Desperados *New York Dragons *Philadelphia Soul Carolina Cobras folded. 2008 *Cleveland Gladiators *Columbus Destroyers *Dallas Desperados *New York Dragons *Philadelphia Soul Las Vegas moved back from Western Division as Cleveland Gladiators. After the 2008 season, Columbus, Dallas, and New York folded while Philadelphia is suspended and the AFL is put on a one-year hiatus. Also, the Cleveland Gladiators joined the Central Division (now part of the National Conference) for the 2010 season when that division was known as the Midwest Division. 2010 *Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings *Dallas Vigilantes *Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz *Tulsa Talons The Eastern Division moved to the American Conference as Southwest Division for this season. Dallas Vigilantes enfranchised while the other three teams come from the defunct af2. 2011 and 2012 *Cleveland Gladiators *Milwaukee Mustangs *Philadelphia Soul *Pittsburgh Power The Southwest Division changed its name back to Eastern Division. Bossier-Shreveport moved to New Orleans as the VooDoo. Cleveland Gladiators and Milwaukee Iron (renamed Mustangs) moved in from the Central Division (known as Midwest in 2010). Dallas and Tulsa moved to Central Division. Oklahoma City folded. Philadelphia Soul returned. Pittsburgh Power enfranchised. 2013 *Cleveland Gladiators *Philadelphia Soul *Pittsburgh Power Milwaukee Mustangs suspended operations. 2014 *Cleveland Gladiators *Iowa Barnstormers *Philadelphia Soul *Pittsburgh Power Iowa joined the East Division after the League's expansion into Los Angeles and Portland, and the removal of the Utah Blaze and Chicago Rush. 2015 *Cleveland Gladiators *New Orleans VooDoo *Philadelphia Soul Iowa left to play in the Indoor Football League and Pittsburgh folded because of low attendance. 2016 *Cleveland Gladiators *Philadelphia Soul New Orleans folded due to lack of ownership. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Division (AFL)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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