1980
League Co-Champions: North Canton Hoover & Massillon Perry (both 5-1 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifier: Canton McKinley.
OHSAA expands playoff structure to include 2 teams per region and 8 teams per division statewide.
Class AAA changes to Division I.
1981
League Champion: Louisville (6-0 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifier: Canton McKinley.
Canton McKinley State Champions.
1982
League Champion: GlenOak (6-0 League play)
1983
Alliance (est. 1896) joins the Federal League.
League Champion: Alliance (7-0 League play)
1984
League Co-Champions: North Canton Hoover & Massillon Perry (both 6-1 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifier: North Canton Hoover.
North Canton Hoover State Runner-up.
1985
Marlington drops out of the Federal League.
League Co-Champions: GlenOak & Massillon Perry (both 5-1 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifiers: Canton GlenOak and Canton McKinley.
Canton McKinley State Runner-up.
OHSAA expands playoff format to include 4 teams per region, 16 teams per division statewide.
1986
League Co-Champions: North Canton Hoover & Jackson (both 5-1 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifiers: North Canton Hoover, Canton McKinley and Austintown Fitch.
1987
Uniontown Lake (est. 1957) joins the Federal League.
League Tri-Champions: North Canton Hoover, Alliance & Massillon Perry (all 4-2 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifiers: North Canton Hoover and Boardman.
Boardman State Runner-up.
1988
Wooster (est. 1904), New Philadelphia (est. 1898) and Canton Timken (est. 1940) join the Federal League.
The Federal League created a two-division league.
American Division: Alliance, GlenOak, North Canton Hoover, Massillon Jackson, and Massillon Perry.
National Division: Canton South, Uniontown Lake, Louisville, New Philadelphia, Canton Timken and Wooster.
League Quad-Champions: North Canton Hoover, GlenOak, Uniontown Lake
and Massillon Perry Lake 6-0, Hoover, GlenOak & Perry 6-1 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifiers: North Canton Hoover and Uniontown Lake.
1989
League Quad-Champions: North Canton Hoover, Massillon Jackson, GlenOak & Wooster (all 6-1 League play)
OHSAA Playoff Qualifier: North Canton Hoover.
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NETWORK
The Federal League Football History (1980 - 1989)
