Bay Area Panthers
| Bay Area Panthers | |
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| Current season | |
| Established 2019 Play in San Jose, California at the SAP Center BayAreaPanthers.com | |
| League/conference affiliations | |
Indoor Football League (2020–present)
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Current uniform | |
| Team colors | Black, gold and white |
| Personnel | |
| Owner(s) | Marshawn Lynch and Roy Choi |
| President | David Eisenberg |
| Head coach | Rob Keefe |
| Team history | |
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| Championships | |
| League championships (1) | |
| Conference championships (1) | |
| Division championships (0) | |
| Playoff appearances (2) | |
| Home arena(s) | |
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The Bay Area Panthers are a professional indoor football team based in San Jose, California, that competes in the Indoor Football League (IFL). The team was to begin play in 2020 at Oakland Arena as the Oakland Panthers. Due the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Panthers' inaugural season was canceled, and the team withdrew from the following 2021 season. Prior to the 2022 season, the Panthers announced they would instead play their home games at SAP Center in San Jose and were renamed after the Bay Area.
The Panthers are co-owned by Oakland native and NFL All-Pro running back, Marshawn Lynch, and by Roy Choi, who also owns the IFL's Cedar Rapids River Kings and San Diego Strike Force. The Panthers are the Bay Area's first arena/indoor football team since the San Jose SaberCats, who played in the Arena Football League from 1995 until 2008, and again from 2011 until 2015, winning four ArenaBowl championships.