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The USAFL has announced the 14th Annual National Championships will be held in Louisville Kentucky over the weekend of October 9th-10th, 2010.

While this may not be news to some (close readers of the USFooty website in 2009 would have seen that Louisville would host the tournament again), today's announcement has confirmed it as fact.

While there will be some, particularly those geographically distant to Louisville that would have hoped for a new location after playing there in 2007, there is also the positive certainty of returning to a venue that has previously sucessfully hosted the event which continues to grow.

Further details from the announcement can be read below.

It is a fitting tribute to Louisville to see the return of the Nationals to the city that hosted the very first game in the USA in September of 1996. To compliment this, starting in 1997, the first three National Championships were held in the city of their opponent in that game, their mid west neighbor, Cincinnati.

In a tribute to the first decade of the USFooty nationals, the championships returned to Louisville in 2007 and with the huge success of those championships, the enthusiasm of the local community and the subsequent irrigation of the fields, it is fitting that the USAFL Nationals return once again to Louisville, Kentucky.

The growth of Australian Rules Football in the USA since that game has been truly amazing. The first Nationals in 1997 saw five teams compete on one field over two days of exciting footy, and plenty of socializing.

This year will see over 30 men’s teams and looking forward to seeing 8 or more women’s teams compete at Louisville Soccer Park, minutes from downtown Louisville and world renowned locations such as Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby and the Louisville Slugger Museum and factory.

The entire USAFL board, National Championships Organizing Committee and the Louisville Kings Football Club take great pride in announcing the location for this years National Championships and putting on a world class event.

Details on hotels, weekend events and highlights will all be announced shortly. The USFooty Board promises this will be one of, if not the best, Nationals ever. Check out USFooty.com for all details and updates.