The 2025 UFL season is the upcoming second season of the United Football League. The Birmingham Stallions were the defending champions when they defeated the San Antonio Brahmas 25–0 in the 2024 UFL Championship Game, the only shutout of the entire season, to win their third consecutive spring football championship, adding to their back-to-back championships in the rebooted USFL.
Offseason
The UFL exceeded internal expectations for the 2024 season, with Fox Sports executive Eric Shanks commenting that, though the league still lost money, it was "ahead of the expected pace" in terms of achieving self-sustenance, while the league long-term goal is to solicit local investors in an owner-operator arrangement similar to that used by Major League Soccer and the previous United Football League.[1] No numbers were made public regarding the league's financial losses, revenues, or expenses. Still, the XFL had projected revenue of $100 million for 2024 if the leagues had remained separate, compared to its $80 million intake in 2023.[2] The outpacing of expectations came despite the short ramp-up time for the 2024 season and the complications it posed on the business side of the league, which Vice President of Football Operations Daryl Johnston blamed for some of the attendance underperformance of the 2024 season compared to years past.[3] Later reports suggested that the 2025 season would be the league's last one if it did not achieve tremendous commercial success.[4]
Television viewership rose substantially compared to the previous season as separate leagues. At the same time, ticket sales in most cities declined, prompting the league ownership to shift investment toward local ticket sales teams. The inaugural season of the UFL averaged 832,000 viewers per game this season, a 34% increase from the average of 619,000 viewers the USFL and XFL attracted last year. In comparison, the championship game on Fox drew the highest viewership, with 1.596 million viewers.[1] However, attendance dipped from the XFL's 2023 season average of 14,703 to 13,512.[5]
In an interview after the season. Johnston said: "With our home markets, we’ve got to build that trust there — that we’re not going to leave or [that] the league isn't going to fold. We’ve got a couple of cities that historically have been a part of spring football; they've committed to a team, and that team has left. ... We’ve still got some trust to build in our home markets. We are going to be able to dial into the details. We will have a traditional offseason calendar where we can be ahead of the curve instead of being in a position where we have to chase it a little bit".[6] In an October 2024 statement, chairwoman Dany Garcia highlighted two areas of improvement for the league in 2025: the league sought to improve its ties to local markets and the quality of play compared to 2024 for a more "dynamic" on-field product.[7] In January 2025 interview UFL President Russ Brandon provided more details: "We have teams on the ground in each market, business teams, think AA, Triple A, baseball, front of offices that are on the ground, 365 days a year, promoting and singing the tune of what that brand means in that marketplace".[8]
77 UFL players signed with the NFL for their 2024 preseason; of those, 21 players were on NFL rosters on opening week, including active rosters, practice squads, and injured reserve, with two players — Jake Bates and Jalen Redmond — making the 53 roster for week 1.[9]Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah would later praise the UFL for its role in player development: "Growth opportunities afforded by the UFL can lead to better competition on NFL rosters. If players in the UFL ascend through the opportunity with professional organizations and access to continued coaching and structure, that provides us with valuable information to evaluate if those ascending players fit the characteristics we target to bring potential added value and competition to our roster".[10]
Teams
As one of the conditions for approving the merger of the XFL and USFL, federal regulators were said to have "prefer(red) more opportunities" (eventual expansion teams) than the eight teams that were included in the 2024 season.[11] No such expansion is planned for 2025, nor are any relocations, as Daryl Johnston stated that the ticket sales in most of the poorer-selling markets could be improved by showing stability and following a more "traditional offseason calendar."[12] In November 2024 the UFL announced the opening of an expansion window for no sooner than 2026, seeking out and inviting cities to present proposals for potential future expansion.[13]
On September 13, 2024, the Houston Roughnecks announced that they would be returning to TDECU Stadium (which would be renamed Space City Financial Stadium during the offseason)[14] for the 2025 season, following renovations to that stadium. The previous incarnation of the Roughnecks had played at TDECU in 2020 and 2023; the current Roughnecks had played the 2024 season at Rice Stadium while Space City Financial Stadium was being renovated.[15][16] On August it was reported that the Battlehawks will host six games in 2025, taking one home game from the Brahmas, as a result of the Alamodome major event commitments for the months of April, May and June.[17][18] The Brahmas' home schedule is expected to be backloaded with the four home games concentrated toward the end of the 2025 season to minimize scheduling conflicts; league president Russ Brandon stated that it had considered moving the Brahmas to another stadium in the San Antonio metropolitan area but decided against it to avoid "some very complex operational concerns" that would arise by doing so.[19]
The Michigan Panthers' lease on Ford Field expired following the 2024 season, forcing a delay in the sale of season tickets for that team.[20] The league announced a renewal for the 2025 season on October 29, 2024.[21]
Locations of current teams for the 2025 UFL season, (USFL Conference – red; XFL Conference – blue)
Players
Each team will carry 64-men rosters to training camp, compared to 75 in the 2024 season, with regular season rosters set at 50 (45 active on game day).[22]
During the 2025 offseason, the UFL hosted seven player showcases across the United States from July to November in St. Louis, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Orlando, San Diego and Dallas, with selected players bein included in the next UFL Draft.[23]
On September 7, 2024, Memphis Showboats wide receiver Diondre Overton died in a shooting incident.[24]
Unionization
On August 12, 2024, the United Football League Players Association released a statement announcing that United Steelworkers, which had represented the association (and its predecessor for the USFL), would no longer represent the league's players. The statement also strongly recommended that the players organize under another established union and not affiliate with the United Football Players Association, with which the USW and UFLPA had fallen out in 2023, without a "confidential background check."[25] Despite this warning, on October 12, the UFPA issued a statement claiming the UFL players had ratified an agreement establishing the UFPA as their union, and that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had recognized the vote.[26]
The 2024 UFL draft ahead of the 2025 season, was held on July 17, 2024. The draft consisted of 10 rounds of players who were eligible for the 2024 NFL draft in April but went undrafted.[27][28] Memphis, winner of the first overall draft pick as a result of its week 10 victory in 2024, chose quarterback Jason Bean with the selection.[29]
Player movement
The UFL has an allocation process for players who entered professional football in the past three years or less (that is, players who were drafted in 2022 onward). Until November 30, each player in this category is allocated based upon the NFL team that last signed them, with each UFL team being assigned four teams:[30]
From December 1, 2024 onward, all eight teams are free to sign any player not currently under contract to another professional team. Players who entered professional football in 2021 or earlier, or had never signed with an NFL team, are free agents at any time.[30]
Some form of reserve clause exists for players who had previously been under contract to another UFL team in 2024 that gives that team first rights to that player for 2025 even if their contract had expired; the exact mechanism of this is unclear. A. J. McCarron successfully prevented the St. Louis Battlehawks from enforcing a reserve clause on him following the expiration of his contract after the 2024 season ended.[31]
On November 14, 2024, DB Bryce Thompson was traded from the San Antonio Brahmas to DC Defenders, in return for DE Jalen Harris.
Coaches
Three of the four coaches who came into the UFL by way of the XFL—Arlington's Bob Stoops, St. Louis's Anthony Becht and DC's Reggie Barlow—are believed to be reaching the end of their guaranteed XFL contracts, and will be subject to new terms that the USFL coaches and all assistants agreed upon in 2024 that were less generous than the 2023 XFL's were.[34] (The lone exception, San Antonio's Wade Phillips, is on the second year of a two-year contract extension he signed prior to the merger.[35]) Stoops, the league's longest-tenured coach and the only remaining coach from the inaugural 2020 XFL season, was noncommittal about returning after the 2024 season, stating he was open to returning for 2025 but that "you never know what the structure is going to look like."[36] Becht announced he had committed to a third season as the Battlehawks' coach in August 2024.[37]
DeFilippo had coached the Showboats in 2024 after coaching the contracted New Orleans Breakers in 2023, with a combined record of 9-11 (.450), with his season with the Breakers at 7-3 (.700) and the Showboats at 2-8 (.200). His resignation coincides with the resignation of general manager Dennis Polian.[38][39]
Whisenhunt had spent the 2023 and part of the 2024 seasons as special assistant to head coach Kalen DeBoer at Alabama; he had extensive experience as an offensive coordinator at the college and NFL levels, and two stints as an NFL head coach for the Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans. He was hired along with new general manager Jim Monos September 23, 2024.[40]
Season structure
Preseason
This is the third and final year of the league's agreement with Arlington, Texas, to serve as the league's centralized hub.[41]
Regular season
The league is divided into two conferences, the USFL Conference and the XFL Conference, each a continuation of its respective league. Each team will play a ten-game schedule with no bye weeks, playing two games against each conference rival (one home and one away) and one game against each team in the other conference, all eight teams playing in their home markets, starting on March 28.[42][12][43][44]
The postseason will have four teams, with the top-seeded & runner-up team in each conference playing in the XFL Championship Game and USFL Championship Game, the winners of which will advance to the 2025 UFL Championship Game on June 14, which will be held at a neutral site chosen among the league's eight markets as a reward for strong fan support and attendance.[46]Audi Field, which had been an early favorite for the game, ruled itself out due to schedule conflicts with the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup scheduled to begin play at the stadium that weekend.[47][48]
Season schedule
All games stream on ESPN+ (ESPN networks) or Fox Sports app (Fox Sports networks) unless otherwise noted.
In the United States, the television rights for the UFL are held by Fox and ESPN in the third season of a five-year deal.[50] This season, 10 games, one game each week, will be contested on Friday night on Fox in order to accommodate Fox's new IndyCar deal and to fill a notoriously difficult-to-fill void on the Friday schedule left when WWE SmackDown returned to USA Network.[1][51] Fox will air nine other regular season games, including one game airing immediately after the 2025 Indianapolis 500, two games will air regionally at the same time, and one game will air on FS1. ESPN will air 20 regular season games across its networks, with 10 on ABC, 9 on ESPN and 1 on ESPN2.[52]
ABC and Fox will then air a conference championship game each, per a two year rotation (ABC and Fox), this season's championship game will air on ABC.
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