ArenaBowl XXVIII was the championship game of the 2015 Arena Football League season . It was played between the American Conference Champion Jacksonville Sharks and the National Conference Champion San Jose SaberCats . The game was played at Stockton Arena in Stockton, California .
7-618: This was the San Jose SaberCats' fourth ArenaBowl championship and fifth overall ArenaBowl appearance. It was the Jacksonville Sharks second ArenaBowl appearance, having won ArenaBowl XXIV in 2011. The SaberCats finished the 2015 season with a combined 20-1 record, becoming the first team in league history to win twenty combined regular season and postseason games. The game was played at Stockton Arena in Stockton, California , as
14-663: A 10-8 record, earning the third seed in the American Conference. In the conference semifinals, they defeated the Orlando Predators on the road in a 55–33 contest. They then won the conference finals on the road against the Philadelphia Soul by a score of 61–56. In 2015 , the SaberCats began the regular season with eleven straight wins. They clinched their second consecutive (and tenth overall) division championship when
21-587: The Portland Thunder lost on June 7. The SaberCats' undefeated streak was snapped when they lost at home to the Los Angeles Kiss , who had a 1–9 record entering the game. The SaberCats won their last six games to finish with a franchise-best record of 17–1, with home-field advantage for the playoffs. In the conference semifinals, they defeated the Portland Thunder at home by a score of 55–28. They then won
28-505: The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus had booked the SaberCats' usual home arena of SAP Center from August 20 to 30. This was the second consecutive ArenaBowl televised on ESPN . In 2015 , the Sharks began the regular season with a 1–5 record, after having lost the first four games of the season. The Sharks then won their next five games and eventually finished the season with
35-531: The conference finals at home against the Arizona Rattlers in a 70–67 contest. at Stockton Arena , Stockton, California 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 was hosted by the team with
42-589: 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 the game using roman numerals beginning in 1994 (" ArenaBowl VIII "). The original Arena Football League 's 2009 bankruptcy liquidation brought
49-616: 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 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
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