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| Founded | 2023 |
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| Based in | Park City, Kansas atHartman Arena |
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| Colors | Black, orange & blue |
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| Head coach | Vacant |
| General manager | Vacant |
| Owner | Chris Zachary |
| Website | ICTRegs.com |
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TheWichita Regulators are a professionalindoor football team based inPark City, Kansas. They were announced as one of the inaugural teams for the revivedArena Football League (AFL) for 2024, beginning play as an independent semi-pro team in 2023 atHartman Arena. In 2025, they were to have become inaugural members of the newly-formedArena Football One, however have gone dormant until 2026.
The Regulators began as an independent semi-professional indoor team in 2022 playing a five-game schedule of games, all games atHartman Arena. The initial coaching staff featured Carlos Cavanaugh Sr. as Head Coach, Rick Lee as Running Game Coordinator, Justin Hurley as Defensive Line Coach and Curtis Williams as Secondary Coach. They finished 5–0 in their inaugural season.[1] They were set to joinChampions Indoor Football before that league was absorbed into the second revivial of theArena Football League.[citation needed]
Four years after the AFL folded for the second time, it was announced on February 1, 2023, that the league intended on relaunching in 2024.[2] On July 18, the 16 intended market cities were announced; Kansas was not initially among the 16 regions receiving a team but would join with the league's eventual merger withChampions Indoor Football.
Steven Titus, the owner of the CIF'sGillette Mustangs andBillings Outlaws, joined the AFL in the summer of 2023, choosing the Outlaws as the team that would join, since the arena inGillette, Wyoming could not accommodate rebound nets needed for the AFL and league bylaws did not at the time allow an owner (other than central league office) to own multiple teams. Since the sale of the team was unfeasible with the CIF merging with the AFL, Titus indicated he would transfer the Mustangs' CIF, later AFL, rights to a team in Kansas,[3] giving an opening for the Regulators to join the league.
On October 5, 2023, the AFL announced that the Regulators would join the CIF's two existing Kansas teams, theSouthwest Kansas Storm andSalina Liberty, in the AFL, as it merged with CIF.[4] They will be members of the Central Division.[5]
It is the sixth indoor team to play in Wichita and the first arena-formatted team since theWichita Stealth played inAF2 from 2000 to 2004. Other teams that played include theWichita Warlords,Wichita Aviators,Wichita Wild, andWichita Force.[citation needed]
On September 4, 2024, the Regulators, along with the other seven surviving members of the collapsed AFL, left that league and became charter members of the newly-formedArena Football One set to play in 2025. They were to play in the Central Division along with theCorpus Christi Tritons,Salina Liberty andSouthwest Kansas Storm. However, the team owner Chris Zachary announced on social media that they would go dormant for 2025, but would return for the 2026 season and beyond. However, their website and social have been shut down, and fellow Kansas-based former CIF teams Salina and Southwest Kansas left AF1,[6][7] leading to speculation of the team's folding without explanation.
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