Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5164970-20160601172157/@comment-1618941-20160605031029

They're only disbanded in a literal interpretation of word, i.e. not banded together as a single, cohesive fighting force at the moment.

One thing that bothers me about how the Marvel Database tends to portray data is there is apparently a desire to make information fit into a tight bracket established around how comic books have sometimes presented content. In this case, people here are treating a fluid group of people with no fixed membership as a fixed member group, and to make that work there is then the need to claim that members are frequently joining and leaving.

And this is just the latest in a series of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole episodes around here.

So...
 * Avengers
 * Tony Stark
 * Steve Rogers
 * Bruce Banner
 * Natasha Romanoff
 * Clint Barton
 * Thor
 * Vision
 * Wanda Maximoff
 * Sam Wilson
 * James Rhodes

The current status is somewhat fractured with part of the team being fugitives, two (maybe three) people ready to assemble (but we know the fugitives will join them when the world has need of them), and a couple of them out of contact. So while they are a recognisable group, they're not a "team" as of the end of Civil War.

In summary, it's a fluid group with a dynamic membership, and therefore cannot be disbanded while parts of that membership are banded together, at least until everyone agrees to go their separate ways and not be Avengers any more. They don't have to have a set number at a particular base of operations to be Avengers - that's always been the nature of this group (even in the comics) and why the catch cry is "Avengers assemble!"