The 2024 ELF season was the fourth season of the European League of Football, a professional American football league based in Europe. Seventeen teams from nine countries participated. The season started on May 25, and concluded with the ELF Championship Game in the Veltins-Arena Gelsenkirchen, Germany on September 22, 2024. Incumbent champion Rhein Fire won the title again, beating Vienna Vikings 51-20.
The teams are divided into three conferences of 5 or 6 teams. Each team plays 12 games during the regular season. The winner of each conference, as well as the next best 3 teams, regardless of conference, qualify for the playoffs.
Of the 17 teams from the 2023 season, 15 are competing in 2024, and are joined by one new expansion team: Madrid Bravos. Teams not returning for the new season are the Leipzig Kings and the Helvetic Guards, the latter replaced by a new Swiss team, the Helvetic Mercenaries.
The schedule for the 2024 season was released on January 16, 2024 without any specific times and venues.
In case ties inside and between the conferences have to be broken, the rules are:
The wildcard games were played on August 31 and September 01, the semifinals on September 07 and 08, and the final was held on September 22, 2024, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The following players invited to the NFLâÂÂs International Combine, assigned to NFL's International Player Pathway Program (IPPP), signed or drafted by CFL team or signed with UFL team following their involvement with the ELF in 2024:
Selected games are available on free TV in most of the participating countries. For the Austrian and German market, the league's main broadcasting partner is ProSiebenSat.1 Media. In Germany ProSieben MAXX and their online-streaming service ran.de airs games on Saturday and Sunday. All games are also available worldwide on ELF Gamepass.