ArenaBowl XXIX was the championship game of the 2016 Arena Football League season . It was played between the American Conference Champion Philadelphia Soul and the National Conference Champion Arizona Rattlers . The game was played at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona .
6-808: This was the Arizona Rattlers' tenth ArenaBowl appearance and the Philadelphia Soul's fourth appearance. It was the Soul's second ArenaBowl victory. The game was played at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona due to the Rattlers' usual home arena of Talking Stick Resort Arena being the site of a WNBA game between the Phoenix Mercury and Dallas Wings on the same day. This was the third consecutive ArenaBowl televised on ESPN . The Philadelphia Soul finished
12-692: The Albany Empire and Philadelphia Soul . The second AFL ultimately had the same fate as the first, ceasing operations after its 2019 season and undergoing Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. The ArenaBowl was revived in 2024 and was played at a neutral site, the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey . The Foster Trophy was not revived for this game. * Neutral site *Includes two appearances as Pittsburgh Gladiators (0–2, 42 points, 84 points allowed). *Both Haering and Jackson coached
18-680: The National Conference Semifinals and the Cleveland Gladiators in the National Conference Championship. at Gila River Arena , Glendale, Arizona Source : ArenaBowl The ArenaBowl is the championship game of the Arena Football League . Originally hosted at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena based on home attendance during the inaugural 1987 season , save four years (2005–2008) the game
24-496: The game using roman numerals beginning in 1994 (" ArenaBowl VIII "). The original Arena Football League 's 2009 bankruptcy liquidation brought the league's existence to a close, but ArenaBowl XXIII would be staged in 2010 as the championship game of a new league which assumed the AFL's intellectual properties. The final ten games of the series would be staged under the "new" Arena Football League, concluding with ArenaBowl XXXII between
30-854: The regular season with a 13–3 record and the number one seed in the American Conference. The Soul then beat the Tampa Bay Storm in the American Conference Semifinals and the Jacksonville Sharks in the American Conference Championship. The Arizona Rattlers finished the regular season with a 13–3 record and the number one seed in the National Conference. The Rattlers then beat the Portland Steel in
36-469: Was hosted by the team with the higher seed based on regular season performance. In 2005–2006 the league staged the game in Las Vegas , and in 2007–2008 New Orleans hosted the event. For the series final two games, regular season home attendance between the competing teams determined which would host. Originally using year-based nomenclature ("ArenaBowl '87"), the league would begin consistently referring to
#82917