The American Indoor Football Association (AIFA) is a professional indoor football league that was formed in 2006. The league's creation coincided with the demise of the Atlantic/American Indoor Football League (AIFL), and all AIFL teams subsequently joined the AIFA. Founders and owners of the AIFA are John Morris and Michael Mink. Sixteen teams participate in the AIFA, which is concentrated mostly in mid-sized markets in the eastern United States and the Rocky Mountains. With the dissolving of the AFL and the AF2, the AIFA has now become the third largest of the 3 major leagues in Indoor/Arena Football. The other two leagues are the Indoor Football League and the newly created Arena Football 1. Though the AIFA and the IFL do not intentionally coordinate in any way, the two leagues are not directly competing with each other for markets. Only three states (Maryland, Virginia & Washington State) and only one city (Richmond, Virginia) have teams in both the IFL and the AIFA. With both leagues having a growing nationwide presence, this lack of significant overlap is somewhat surprising.