DEFUNCT EFL TEAMS In Memorandum... Below are the three former EFL teams from the league's inaugural 2008 season. This page is respectfully dedicated to the memory of those lost teams as they helped shape the EFL in its infancy.     IRELAND STOUTS 5-7 (.417) TEAM OWNER:  Derrick McBroon Although it was the most successful of the three EFL defunct teams, the Ireland Stouts still only managed 5 wins in a 12-game schedule. Stars of the team included QB Matt Hasselbeck, RB Ryan Grant, RB Brandon Jacobs and RB Pierre Thomas. The Stouts finished in 3rd place in the North Division, scoring 869 points while allowing 963 points.   When the EFL realigned for the 2009 season, more franchises were needed in the southern hemisphere for the new SHC. Team owner Derrick McBroon agreed to relocate his franchise from Ireland to Indonesia. For the 2009 season, McBroon rechristened his team as the Indonesia Evolutionaries.

RUSSIA SPETSNAZ 3-9 (.250) TEAM OWNER:  Zach McBroon The least successful of the three EFL defunct teams, the Russia Spetsnaz only managed to win 3 games in 2008, only one game better than the Antarctica Icecaps in that season. The stars of the team included QB Eli Manning, WR Terrell Owens and RB Willis McGahee. In fact, Russia's Eli Manning was the first EFL player to score the very first point for the league. The Spetsnaz finished in 4th place in the East Division, scoring only 753 points while surrendering 1110 points.   For the 2009 season, the league still needed another northern team to move south for the realignment process. Like his father, Zach McBroon also decided to venture southward into the SHC, and the team settled in Venezuela. For the 2009 season, the younger McBroon renamed his team the Venezuela Dictators.

TRANSYLVANIA BATS 4-8 (.333) TEAM OWNER:  Kevin Hedges The Transylvania Bats are the only EFL team to ever represent a smaller territory or region within a country (Romania). The Bats only won 4 games behind team leaders QB David Garrard, RB Ronnie Brown and WR Reggie Wayne. The team finished in 4th place in the North Division, scoring 978 points and allowing 971 points.   At the conclusion of the 2008 season, team owner Kevin Hedges resigned his ownership of the team. In an effort to make the team more appealing for new ownership while keeping a stronger and sound league realignment in mind, the team was shifted to Great Britain. Dave Heller took over operations of this new British team and named them the Isle Adders. Hedges returned to the league shortly afterward and became the team owner of the 2009 expansion team, the Argentina Gauchos.