The Florida Firecats were a professional arena football team based in Estero, Florida. They played in the AF2, the Arena Football League's developmental league, from 2001 to 2009. They did not join the AFL following the leagues' reorganization in 2010. During their run they won the 2004 ArenaCup championship, two conference titles, and made a total of seven playoff appearances. They played their home games at Germain Arena.
|- |2001 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 5th AC Southeast || -- |- |2002 || 9 || 7 || 0 || 2nd AC South || Won AC Round 1 (Tallahassee 43âÂÂ31)<br>Won AC Semifinal (Macon 44âÂÂ28)<br>Won AC Championship (Cape Fear 43âÂÂ23)<br>Lost ArenaCup III (Peoria 65âÂÂ47) |- |2003 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd AC South || Lost AC Round 1 (Macon 42âÂÂ16) |- |2004 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd AC South || Won AC Round 1 (Memphis 35âÂÂ33)<br>Won AC Semifinal (Tennessee Valley 62âÂÂ58)<br>Won AC Championship (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 41âÂÂ31)<br>Won ArenaCup V (Peoria 39âÂÂ26) |- |2005 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st AC South || Won AC Semifinal (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 59âÂÂ45)<br>Lost AC Championship (Louisville 70âÂÂ40) |- |2006 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC South || Won AC Semifinal (Manchester 40âÂÂ39)<br>Lost AC Championship (Green Bay 60âÂÂ47) |- |2007 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 1st NC South || Lost AC Round 1 (South Georgia 59âÂÂ50) |- |2008 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd AC South || Lost AC Round 1 (Tennessee Valley 48âÂÂ33) |- |2009 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 4th AC South || -- |- !Totals || 100 || 59 || 0 |colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
<nowiki>*</nowiki> = Current standing
The cancellation of the Arena Football League's 2009 season has left the future of many AF2 teams up in the air. 11 of the 25 AF2 teams have confirmed that they will be joining a new arena football league, Arena Football 1. The Florida Firecats are not one of those teams, and it is unclear whether they will continue to play in the AF2, seek another arena football league, or suspend operations.
The Firecats do not seem interested in joining AF1 and may be trying to join another indoor football league instead. Commissioner Jerry Kurz says the Firecats have yet to apply, and team president Chris Vallozzi was quoted as calling AF1 "an upstart league" without the AFL's 20 years of prior history, also saying they'd "keep all options open with all leagues."
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