List of NAIA conferences
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Template:Short description The following is a list of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) conferences as of the 2024–25 school year. Unless otherwise noted, changes in conference membership occur on July 1 of the given year.
Current conferences
Football
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Non-football
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Defunct conferences
Football
- Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (1928–1995)
- Central States Intercollegiate Conference (1976–1989)
- Dakota Athletic Conference (2000–2012)
- Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (closed in 2003)
- Evergreen Conference (1948–1984)
- Great Plains Athletic Conference (1972–1976)
- Hoosier–Buckeye Conference (1948–1985)
- Missouri College Athletic Union (1924–1970)
- Nebraska College Conference (1916–1976)
- North Dakota College Athletic ConferenceTemplate:Efn (closed in 2000)
- North Star Athletic Association (2013–2025)
- Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference (1929–1973), formerly the Oklahoma Collegiate Conference
- Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1974–1997)
- Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference (1984–1998)
- South Dakota Intercollegiate ConferenceTemplate:Efn (closed in 2000)
- South East Atlantic Conference (2004–2008), football only, members became NAIA football independents
- Southern States Conference (1938–1997), formerly the Alabama Intercollegiate Conference and the Alabama Collegiate Conference
- Tri-State Conference (1960–1981)
- Volunteer State Athletic Conference (1940s–early 1980s)
- West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1924–2013), transferred to the NCAA in 1995 after a two-year dual membership. Most of the final WVIAC members are now in the NCAA Division II Mountain East Conference.
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Non-football
- American Mideast Conference (1949–2012)
- Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1971–1999)
- Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference (1994–2015)
- Midwest Collegiate Conference (1988–2015)
- Northeastern Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (2016–2019)Template:Efn
- Sunrise Athletic Conference (2002–2011)
- TranSouth Athletic Conference (1996–2013)
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Former conferences
All transferred to the NCAA.
Football
- Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1973–1988)
- Lone Star ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1931–1982)
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1920–1982)
- Northern Sun Intercollegiate ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1932–1995), known as Northern Intercollegiate Conference until 1992
- Northwest ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1926–1996), Pacific Northwest Conference before 1984 and Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges until 1996
- Rocky Mountain Athletic ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1909–1992), Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference until 1910 and Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference until 1967
- Upper Midwest Athletic ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1972–2008), Twin Rivers Conference until 1983
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Non-football
- Central Atlantic Collegiate ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1961–2002)
- Conference CarolinasTemplate:Efn (1930–1995), known as the North State Intercollegiate Athletic Conference until 1961, later as the Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference until 1995 (which held dual membership with the NCAA for two years starting in 1993), became the Carolinas–Virginia Athletic Conference until 2007
- Dixie ConferenceTemplate:Efn (1963–1973), became the USA South Athletic Conference in 2003
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See also
References
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External links
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