National Football League

National Football League (NFL)

Current season, competition or edition: 2024 NFL season
Sport	American football
Founded	August 20, 1920[1]
Commissioner	Roger Goodell
No. of teams	32, divided into two sixteen-team conferences, each of which consists of four four-team divisions.
Country	United States
Most recent champion(s)	Kansas City Chiefs (4 titles)
Most titles	Green Bay Packers (13 titles)
TV partner(s)	CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN, NFL Network, Telemundo,ProsiebenSat.1(Germany)
Official website	NFL.com

The National Football League (NFL) is an American football league. There are 32 teams in the league. The league is one of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada. The players are among the highest-paid athletes in the world. A league is a competition between a number of teams. The teams play other teams, and the results are used to list the teams in order of who is The team at the top of the list (called a league table) is the best team and the team at the bottom is the worst team.

It is now the most popular professional league in the United States by number of television viewers. The NFL also has the highest per-game attendance of any professional league in the world; in the most recently completed 2014 season, the average crowd at an NFL game was more than 67,000. Its championship game, the Super Bowl, is an unofficial national holiday in the U.S., and is seen by more people than any other American television program.

In terms of number of players and people involved, the NFL is the largest professional sports league in the world. It is widely considered the top level of competition in the world for American football.

1. ↑ National Football League (2002). Official NFL Record & Fact Book. Workman Pub Co. pp. 387. ISBN 9780761126430. Retrieved 2015-04-02.