Current：Home > ContactXFL-USFL merger complete with launch of new United Football League -NextGenWealth
XFL-USFL merger complete with launch of new United Football League
View
Date：2025-04-14 19:41:50
There will be a new spring football league this year following Sunday's official launch of the United Football League, a merger between the XFL and USFL.
The two leagues have operated independently in the past, competing for fans and television viewers. Under terms of the merger, former XFL president and CEO Russ Brandon will take over the same role with the UFL. Former USFL exec Darryl Johnston will lead the football operations department.
"The success of the USFL has proven that there’s a bright future for spring football," Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks said in a statement. "The opportunity to bring together our two leagues – each with a commitment to advancing broadcast practices, rule innovations and the community – only furthers the potential of the United Football League and solidifies its spot on the sports calendar.”
The UFL season will kick off on Saturday, March 30 with a clash between the 2023 XFL champion Arlington Renegades and the 2023 USFL champion Birmingham Stallions.
STAY UP-TO-DATE: Subscribe to our Sports newsletter for exclusive content
The league says additional details about team markets and football operations will be announced soon.
veryGood！ (54)
Related
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Expletive. Fight. More expletives. Chiefs reach Super Bowl and win trash-talking battle
- Brittany Mahomes Has a Message for Chiefs Critics After Patrick Mahomes’ Championship Victory
- A Boston doctor goes to trial on a charge of lewd acts near a teen on a plane
- PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Day Wednesday August 7, 2024
- Conference championship winners and losers: Brock Purdy comes through, Ravens fall short
- Police investigating headlock assault on hijab-wearing girl at suburban Chicago middle school
- Counselor says parents chose work over taking care of teen before Michigan school shooting
- Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
- Former Red Sox, Blue Jays and Astros manager Jimy Williams dies at 80
Ranking
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Hi Hi!
- Murder suspect recaptured by authorities: Timeline of Shane Pryor's escape in Philadelphia
- Police reviewing social media video as probe continues into fatal shooting that wounded officer
- 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans' is set to premiere: Date, time, where to watch and stream
- Illinois governor calls for resignation of sheriff whose deputy fatally shot Black woman in her home
- The 49 Most Popular Amazon Items E! Readers Bought This Month: $1 Lip Liners, Kyle Richards' Picks & More
- Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkirk Shocked to Learn He's Related to King Charles III
- West Virginia advances bill that would require age verification for internet pornography
Recommendation
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Hi Hi!
The mothers of two teenage boys killed as they left a Chicago high school struggle with loss
Teenager Valieva disqualified in Olympic doping case. Russians set to lose team gold to US
Police seize weapons, explosives from a home in northern Greece
Why we love Bear Pond Books, a ski town bookstore with a French bulldog 'Staff Pup'
Look what the Chiefs made airlines do: New flight numbers offered for Super Bowl
Maine lawmakers consider request to give subpoena power to committee investigating mass shooting
Russian opposition figure Kara-Murza moved to another prison, placed in solitary confinement again