the sioux city bandits are a professional indoor football team based in sioux city, iowa. the bandits compete in champions indoor football (cif) as a member of the league's north conference. the team was founded in 1999 as the sioux city attack. in 2001, the team assumed their current name of the bandits. the bandits joined the cif as result of the merger in 2014. the bandits play their home games at the tyson events center.