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USA Football has finalized its 12-woman and 12-man rosters for the IFAF World Flag Championship in Düsseldorf, August 13 to 16, where two places in the LA28 Olympic draw are on the line.

TMRW Sports has named U.S. national team star and 2026 NAIA Player of the Year Ashlea Klam as its first professional flag football ambassador, making the 20-year-old a public face of the men's and women's pro league it is building with the NFL ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics voted to elevate women's flag football to championship status, its 30th, with the first national championship set for spring 2027 and roughly 60 schools expected to sponsor the sport in 2026-27.

Brand Velocity Group, the investment firm where two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning is a partner, has acquired RCX Sports, the licensed operator of NFL FLAG, from Raine Partners, channeling fresh private capital into the grassroots base of flag football ahead of LA 2028.

With flag football set to debut at the LA 2028 Olympics, NFL stars from Jalen Hurts to Joe Burrow are angling for roster spots. But the specialists who have won six world titles are not stepping aside, and USA Football, not the NFL, will decide who plays.

In the span of two days, Football Canada named the first Junior National Flag Football Teams in the country's history and U SPORTS approved women's flag football as a pilot sport for 2027-28, two moves that knit together a development pathway pointed squarely at the sport's Olympic debut at LA 2028.

A free, public reference of every college and pro flag football player we could document. Three hundred and fifteen athletes to start. Built for the players, not the recruiters, ahead of the sport's 2028 Olympic debut.

Kansas, Maryland, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Kentucky all voted to make girls' flag football an official high school sport between April 23 and May 6, pushing the national count to 23 sanctioning states ahead of the LA28 Olympic cycle.

NFL EVP Peter O'Reilly confirmed the league's upcoming professional men's and women's flag football leagues will feature a full combine and draft, with a launch targeted for late spring or early summer 2027 and $192 million in total backing.

The league has created its first senior-level position dedicated entirely to flag football, naming the veteran sports executive Senior Vice President, Global Flag Football as the sport prepares for its Olympic debut and a professional league launch.

Founded in 2012 with a handful of teams, Commissioner Shawn's Long Island Legends has grown into one of the New York area's premier adult flag football leagues, running year-round across Suffolk and Nassau counties with roughly 50 teams and plans for a new 7-man contact division.

The KSHSAA's 73-member board will vote April 23 on whether to sanction girls flag football, as the Kansas City Chiefs mobilize a statewide "Let Her Play" campaign urging fans to sign a petition in support.

Flag footballer Matt Bourke set out to do what started as a joke in a UK flag football Discord: play in two tournaments on the same Saturday. He ended the day with two trophies and an MVP award.

The Big South Conference makes history as the first Division I conference to officially sponsor women's flag football, signaling a major step forward for the sport at the collegiate level.

Eight Division I women's flag football programs from across the country will converge on Arizona State's campus in April for a two-day championship tournament presented by Oakley, marking a new milestone for the sport at the collegiate level.

From NCAA Tournament point guards to WNBA draft picks, elite women's basketball players are discovering a new path on the flag football field, and the participation data suggests they are far from alone.

Full profiles for every player on the men's and women's flag football national teams as they prepare for the IFAF World Championships in Dusseldorf and the road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

From Olympic inclusion to a professional league, flag football is mirroring the institutional trajectory that turned soccer into the world's most popular sport.

The 2011 Heisman Trophy winner and former No. 2 overall pick earned one of 24 spots on USA Football's men's national team, with eyes on the IFAF World Championship in Dusseldorf and the 2028 Olympic Games.

The U.S. men's national flag football team went 3-0 and outscored two rosters loaded with NFL talent 106-44 at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, proving that flag football is its own game.

The New Orleans Saints' girls flag football program has grown from a 10-team pilot to a 64-team statewide league in just two years, powered by an NFL partnership and the LHSAA's decision to sanction the sport.

The inaugural Fanatics Flag Football Classic brings three star-studded teams to BMO Stadium in Los Angeles on March 21, featuring Tom Brady, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, and the reigning IFAF World Champion U.S. Men's National Team.

North Dakota becomes the latest state to embrace the fastest-growing high school sport in America with the launch of its first girls flag football program.

The New York Jets expand their flag football footprint overseas with a new initiative in London, bringing the sport to an international audience.

Ireland emerges as a growing force in the international flag football community with participation surging across the country.

Binghamton University becomes the latest institution to launch women's flag football, adding its first new varsity sport in over two decades.

TMRW Sports wins the NFL's bid for a professional flag football league, with a $32 million investment from 32 Equity and a launch targeted ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

All 32 NFL owners unanimously approved a major investment in professional flag football leagues, signaling the sport's biggest leap yet.

Everything you need to know about flag football's Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games.