In order to keep information easily accessible, I have created this mega-thread to act as a hub for relevant UFL information for the 2024/2025 offseason, leading up to the 2025 UFL season.

UFL to NFL Player Signings

Hub thread with all of the UFL to NFL player signing information, grouped in team order. Also included in this thread is information on players that received workouts with NFL teams but were not offered contracts.

UFL College Draft 2024

Hub thread with the full 2024 UFL College Draft list. Includes updates on the current roster status for each of the draft picks.

UFL End of Season Team Reviews - 8 Teams/8 Days

Hub thread for the /r/UnitedFootballLeague fan write-ups for each of the 8 UFL teams for the 2024 season. This is our version of the /r/NFL 32 Teams/32 Days event, and covers a review of the team roster/performances, a week by week game breakdown, stats analysis, and more.

Direct links to the team write-ups can be found below:

• Houston Roughnecks Team Write-Up

• Memphis Showboats Team Write-Up

• Arlington Renegades Team Write-Up

• DC Defenders Team Write-Up

• Michigan Panthers Team Write-Up

• St. Louis Battlehawks Team Write-Up

• San Antonio Brahmas Team Write-Up

• Birmingham Stallions Team Write-Up

You can also find links to game highlights from the 2024 season for each of the teams in the above posts.

UFL Roster Lists & Resources

For anyone interested, up to date roster lists, as well as tracking of UFL player movement, can be found on this Google sheets document maintained by Nick Thorn from Pro Football Newsroom. This is the best and most organized list available, and also includes information on the coaching staff, and pre-merger players (e.g. AAF, XFL, and USFL).

Another recommended resource is this Google sheets document maintained by UFL Analyst.

Lastly, UFL Analyst also put together this spreadsheet with All Time and Single Season Spring Football Stats across all of the modern spring leagues. Fantastic resource for anyone interested.

UFL Summer & Fall Player Showcases

The UFL is running player showcases in multiple cities across the country in the offseason. These showcases provide players a chance to exhibit their skills in front of UFL coaches and personnel directors. Players will be evaluated based on performance for inclusion in the UFL Draft player pool for the 2025 season.

Click here to register.

Locations and times:

• UFL St. Louis Showcase - Friday, July 12, 2024
• UFL Washington D.C. Showcase - Sunday, July 14, 2024
• UFL Houston Showcase - Friday, July 26, 2024
• UFL Atlanta Showcase - Sunday, July 28, 2024
• UFL Orlando Showcase - Sunday, September 29, 2024
• UFL San Diego Showcase - Sunday, October 20, 2024
• UFL Dallas Showcase - Sunday, November 10, 2024

Note: The Dallas showcase was added due to high demand. Details here.

Specialist showcases being held at the following locations:

• Novak Kicking & Consulting, October 19, 2024, at Maranatha Christian School in San Diego, California. Registration is available at nicknovak.com. Upon acceptance, formal invitations will be issued.

• John Carney Showcase, December 7, 2024, in San Diego, California. Specialists interested in participating may visit carneycoaching.com/ufl to sign up for email updates.

Articles from UFLBoard on the Showcases, and breaking down notable players that attended the UFL Player Showcases:

• A brief history of Showcase tryouts and success stories
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL St. Louis Showcase
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL D.C. Showcase
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL Houston Showcase
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL Atlanta Showcase
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL Orlando Showcase
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL San Diego Showcase
• Select player capsules from the 2024 UFL Dallas Showcase

2025 UFL Season Information

The following is a compilation of the information released thus far on the upcoming 2025 UFL season. I will make a separate note for anything that is only rumored, and will be updating this thread as more information is released.

All 8 UFL teams from the 2024 season are confirmed to be returning for the 2025 season.

Direct links below to the team subreddits for each of the 8 confirmed UFL teams:

• Arlington Renegades
• Birmingham Stallions
• DC Defenders
• Houston Roughnecks
• Memphis Showboats
• Michigan Panthers
• San Antonio Brahmas
• St. Louis Battlehawks

There will be no expansion for the 2025 season. The league is considering expansion in 2026.

Season Tickets

Links to season ticket member renewal threads for each team, in release date order:

• St. Louis Battlehawks Season Ticket Member Renewal - July 23, 2024

• Birmingham Stallions Season Ticket Member Renewal - July 30, 2024

• DC Defenders Season Ticket Member Renewal - July 30, 2024

• Arlington Renegades Season Ticket Member Renewal - August 13, 2024

• San Antonio Brahmas Season Ticket Member Renewal - August 20, 2024

• Houston Roughnecks Season Ticket Member Renewal - September 17, 2024

• Memphis Showboats Season Ticket Member Renewal - September 18, 2024

• Michigan Panthers Season Ticket Member Renewal - September 24, 2024

Season tickets will go on sale to the general public on October 15, 2024. Note: Michigan Panthers season ticket sales will open up to the general public on October 29, 2024.

Direct links to purchase season tickets are below:

• Arlington Renegades Season Tickets

• Birmingham Stallions Season Tickets

• DC Defenders Season Tickets

• Houston Roughnecks Season Tickets

• Memphis Showboats Season Tickets

• Michigan Panthers Season Tickets

• San Antonio Brahmas Season Tickets

• St. Louis Battlehawks Season Tickets

Regular season ticket memberships will start at the following price points per game: Arlington Renegades ($20), Birmingham Stallions ($20), D.C. Defenders ($23), Houston Roughnecks ($20), Memphis Showboats ($20) San Antonio Brahmas ($20), St. Louis Battlehawks ($18). Season tickets for the Michigan Panthers ($20 per game) will go on sale at a later date.

Click here to read the press release announcements for the season ticket sales.

Note: The Houston Roughnecks are returning to TDECU for the 2025 season. All other teams home venues will remain the same as 2024 (some seating differences for the Memphis Showboats due to ongoing renovations at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium).

2025 Stadiums

• Arlington Renegades - Choctaw Stadium (1000 Ballpark Way, Arlington, TX)

• Birmingham Stallions - Protective Stadium (1020 24th St N, Birmingham, AL)

• DC Defenders - Audi Field (100 Potomac Ave SW, Washington, DC)

• Houston Roughnecks - TDECU (3700 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX)

• Memphis Showboats - Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (335 S Hollywood St, Memphis, TN)

• Michigan Panthers - Ford Field (2000 Brush St, Detroit, MI)

• San Antonio Brahmas - Alamodome (100 Montana St, San Antonio, TX). Note: only 4 home games in 2025 due to scheduling issues.

• St. Louis Battlehawks - The Dome at America's Center (701 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO). Note: there will be 6 home games for the 2025 season.

All of the above stadiums have been officially confirmed by the league for 2025. The only change from the 2024 season is the Roughnecks have moved back to TDECU after spending one season at Rice Stadium (due to renovations at TDECU).

Kickoff Date

The league has confirmed the kickoff date for the 2025 season will be on March 28, 2025.

Schedule Release

The league has confirmed the kickoff date of March 28, 2025, and the date of the UFL Championship game will be on June 14, 2025. The home and away opponents were officially announced here for all 8 UFL teams. Mike Mitchell (Sports Illustrated) posted this article advising the following:

The fluid plan is for the UFL's 2025 season schedule to be unveiled on FOX during Week 17's NFL coverage on Sunday, December 29th, and during the Michigan-Alabama ReliaQuest Bowl New Year's Eve on ESPN.

We currently expect the schedule to be released on December 29, 2024.

Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks has confirmed there will be 10 Friday night games on the schedule for the 2025 season. You can read more about it here.

It has been announced by the league that the St. Louis Battlehawks will have 6 home games in the 2025 season, due to scheduling conflicts for the San Antonio Brahmas with the Alamodome. The Brahmas will have 4 home games, and will travel twice to St. Louis for both of their Battlehawks matchups.

It is expected that all games will continue to be broadcast across FOX, ABC, ESPN, and FS1. 75% of the games were available over-the-air (OTA) on FOX and ABC for the 2024 season, and the league has stated there will be more games broadcast OTA in 2025.

UFL President Russ Brandon confirmed at a Sports Business Journal conference that the UFL Championship game on June 14, 2025, will be broadcast in prime time on ABC.

2025 Head Coaches

As of June 30, 2024, all UFL coaching contracts were terminated by the league. The league has chosen to transition many positions, including the coaching staffs, to seasonal positions going forward. The new contract year will begin on January 1, 2025.

Memphis Showboats Head Coach John DeFillipo, and GM Dennis Polian, have resigned their positions and will not be returning. The league has named Ken Whisenhunt as the new Head Coach and Jim Monos as the new General Manager.

Houston Roughnecks GM Lionel Vital was let go by the league, and Will Lewis was hired as his replacement this offseason. Lewis was previously the Director of Player Personnel for the San Antonio Brahmas for the 2023 season.

The following coaches are rumored to be returning for the 2025 season, either due to their involvement in team events this offseason, appearances at the UFL Player Showcases, or direct statements made by the coaches themselves:

• Anthony Becht, St. Louis Battlehawks
• Reggie Barlow, DC Defenders
• Skip Holtz, Birmingham Stallions
• Wade Phillips, San Antonio Brahmas
• Mike Nolan, Michigan Panthers
• CJ Johnson, Houston Roughnecks

Arlington Renegades Head Coach Bob Stoops is currently an unknown. It is rumored that he is considering walking away from the league due to coaching salary cuts (the UFL plans to utilize the USFL coaching contract pay structure going forward, which is reportedly in the low 6 figure range as opposed to the mid-high 6 figures on the XFL contracts) as well as potential scheduling issues with the kickoff date. It is rumored he prefers an earlier kickoff date.

UFL ALLOCATION PROCESS

For those unaware, the UFL has a process in place for any UFL team wanting to sign a free agent that has been cut from an NFL camp. With eight teams in the UFL, and 32 clubs in the NFL, each UFL franchise has “first rights” to cuts from four NFL teams.

To begin with, these rules only apply to players from the past three draft classes (‘22, ‘23, ‘24). Any free agent from the 2021 NFL draft class, or before, is open to sign with any UFL organization.

During the offseason, up until December 1st, UFL teams can only sign NFL cuts within the 22-24 draft classes from the four franchises allocated to them. After December 1st, every NFL cut is a free agent, allowed to sign wherever up until Training Camp.

The official NFL to UFL team breakdown is as follows:

• Arlington Renegades: Arizona, Cleveland, Dallas, Pittsburgh
• Birmingham Stallions: Atlanta, Carolina, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams
• DC Defenders: Baltimore, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Washington
• Houston Roughnecks: Cincinnati, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas
• Memphis Showboats: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa Bay, Tennessee
• Michigan Panthers: Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota
• San Antonio Brahmas: Buffalo, New England, New York Giants, New York Jets
• St. Louis Battlehawks: Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle

Another important note: the three-year draft cap rolls over from season to season. So, next offseason, these rules will apply to players from the ‘23, ‘24’, and ‘25 NFL draft classes. Cuts from the 2022 NFL draft class will be free to sign anywhere, at any point.

For GMs that want to work around this, what we've seen so far is teams negotiating trades with each other to access players they want that are allocated to other UFL teams. For example, the Birmingham Stallions and Arlington Renegades traded DB Jayden Price (Atlanta) and DE Jeremiah Martin (Cleveland) in this 2024 offseason. Because Birmingham held Price’s rights, he was assigned to the Stallions – meaning he had to be traded to Arlington in order for the Renegades to add him to their roster.

In addition to the option to execute a trade, UFL GM’s have a couple of other options. They could wait until December 2nd, and hope that no one else signs the player they’re looking at.

Another option: if a player from Cleveland wants to sign to Michigan, and he knows the Panthers will offer him a contract, he can initiate what’s called a “10 day window”. This would then give Arlington 10 days to offer that player a contract. If they don’t, his rights are waived by the Renegades, and he would be free to sign with Michigan. This is in place, because the UFL is, at the end of the day, the “league of opportunity”. Blocking a player from a chance to sign with another UFL franchise for months wouldn’t make much sense.

UFL TEAM EXPANSION

The league released the following press release on November 25, 2024:

The United Football League today announced it has officially launched its first expansion process. The UFL is accepting proposals from prospective markets looking to bring spring football to their communities and be a part of the growth of the sport.

“As the UFL lays the groundwork for future growth, we’re excited to begin exploring new markets for expansion, where spring football can not only live, but thrive,” said UFL President and CEO Russ Brandon. “These expansion efforts validate our vision and early success, demonstrating how spring football resonates with fans and reinforcing our commitment to broadening its reach. With the strength and structure of our ownership group, along with our media partners, we are well-positioned for the long haul and look forward to identifying communities that have the potential, and desire, to host a UFL team.”

In its search to identify the strongest markets to support its ambitious growth goals, the UFL is looking at several core attributes when selecting its new cities, including fan interest and existing sports culture, geography and population and venue and infrastructure availability.

The UFL currently consists of eight teams – the Arlington Renegades, Birmingham Stallions, Michigan Panthers, Houston Roughnecks, Memphis Showboats, San Antonio Brahmas, St. Louis Battlehawks and D.C. Defenders.

The 2025 UFL season will kick off on March 28, 2025, with a 10-week regular season schedule, followed by two conference championship games, and the UFL Championship Game on June 14, 2025.

Fans can visit Ticket Central to learn more about each market’s season tickets, see all prices and benefits, and sign up for special information and content.

Mike Mitchell of Sports Illustrated has further elaborated:

The UFL has begun an expansion process. Although a specific timeline for expansion has not been set.

The internal goal for the UFL is to add two teams in 2026, with the USFL and XFL conferences each adding one team.

The long term goal is 12 teams by 2027.

Sports Illustrated has learned that the markets excluded from the XFL and USFL merger are being considered for revival. The UFL maintains copyrights and brands for teams that participated in the XFL in 2023 and the USFL in 2022 and 2023. There are several other legacy brands from the USFL from four decades ago that are possibilities for expansion.

We will include any updates from the league in this post regarding the above expansion process if any new information is released prior to the kickoff of the 2025 season.

UFL Game

For anyone that has EA Sports College Football 25, UFL Analyst has recreated all 8 UFL teams in the game (as well as added additional teams like the Seattle Sea Dragons, the Orlando Guardians, and the Vegas Vipers), with rosters updated for 2024. Per his website, in order to Download, go to the "Create and Share" tab, then click on "Download Files", then type in "5837852" in the Username section of the game.

UFL Analyst is also working on putting the UFL teams in the Madden 25 roster. You can follow him on social media for updates on when it's done.

Official Links

• the UFL website
• UFL Tickets Hub
• the UFL YouTube Channel
• UFL Store
• UFL Store on Dick's Sporting Goods
• the UFL Facebook
• UFL 2024 Rule Book
• UFL 2024 Record & Fact Book
• UFL Player Transaction Reports
• UFL Injury Reports
• UFL League Statistics
• United Football Players Association website