Introducing the FlagsOnly Player Index
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.
At a Glance
- The FlagsOnly Player Index goes live today with 315 college and pro flag football players, including the full U.S. men's and women's national teams and rosters from eight NAIA programs.
- Every player is searchable by school, position, conference, and state, with photos, official links, and YouTube highlights where available. Players can claim their profile, request changes, or remove themselves by email.
- Flag football debuts at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics with no public reference of the athletes building toward it. The FPI is built to fill that gap, free and open to every player who wants to be in it.
Flag football is twenty-four months from its Olympic debut and there is no public database of the players competing in the sport. Program rosters live scattered across athletics sites. National-team announcements live in press releases. League media kits live behind email walls. There is no single place to look up Ashlea Klam, or Vanita Krouch, or the full Mexico women's roster, or every college program now sponsoring varsity flag football.
Today, FlagsOnly is publishing the first attempt at that database. The FlagsOnly Player Index is a free, public reference of college and pro flag football players. It launches with 315 athletes. Three hundred and fifteen is not the full universe of the sport. But it is the largest single index of flag football players that has ever been published publicly, and it will grow.
A Direct Note to Players
If you are a flag football player in the index, claim your profile. The FlagsOnly Player Index is the record people will read about you as the sport climbs toward the 2028 Olympics. Coaches scouting transfers, fans looking you up, reporters writing about your team, scouts evaluating talent: this is what they will find. Take five minutes and make sure it is yours. Email hello@flagsonly.com with the subject "Verify my profile: [Your Name]" and any proof of identity (team-issued photo, locker-room selfie in team gear, anything that establishes you are who you say you are). Once we verify you, a green checkmark goes next to your name, and you can request edits, add a photo, and update your links any time. The profile that represents you should be yours to shape.
What's In It
The launch index covers six national programs and nine collegiate ones. Every player on the U.S. men's national team (24 players from the roster announced for the 2025 World Games) and the U.S. women's national team (24 players, 13 of whom currently play college ball and are listed at their school with a Team USA tag) is included. So are Canada's top 16 men and top 24 women as designated by Football Canada, five of Mexico's senior women including Diana Flores, the 2025 Great Britain women's roster of 13, and Italy's 2024 World Championship women's team of 12.
On the college side, the index includes full 2026 rosters from Warner University, Cumberland University (TN), St. Thomas University, Keiser University, Webber International, Ottawa University, Thomas University, and Hope International, plus the NAIA All-Americans announced May 5, 2026 from eight additional programs. Each player has a profile page with position, school, conference, state, eligibility, age, height, an editorial overview, and links to whatever public footprint they already have: Wikipedia, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Hudl, school athletic profile, USA Football, NAIA stats, Football Canada, Opendorse, and their FlagsOnly bio if one exists. Where we could find YouTube highlights, they embed inline on the profile.
Why Now
The infrastructure of flag football has not kept pace with the audience. In January 2026, the NCAA designated women's flag football as an Emerging Sport for Women. Roughly 60 colleges now sponsor varsity programs and the projection for 2028 is closer to 100. High school girls' flag football grew 60 percent in the 2024-25 season to nearly 69,000 participants, a figure up 388 percent from the first post-pandemic survey. The NFL invested through 32 Equity to launch professional men's and women's leagues. More than 40 states sponsor varsity flag football at the high school level.
The audience is forming faster than the infrastructure that serves it. A casual fan today cannot easily answer the simplest question: who plays this sport? A coach scouting a transfer cannot find one place to compare candidates. A reporter writing about flag football has no central reference for spelling, age, and position. A player who wants to be discoverable has no front door. That is the gap. The FPI is the front door.
Built for the Players
The Player Index offers four self-serve actions, all via email to hello@flagsonly.com: submit a new profile, claim and verify an existing one, add a photo, or request a correction. There is no paywall, no signup, no ad on the page today. Profiles are not ranked, scouted, or graded. Players are not the product being sold. Players are the readers being served.
What This Is Not
High school players are not included in this launch. The Player Index is not a complete map of every flag football player on earth, at least not yet. It is a starting catalog of the verifiable ones, biased toward the rosters that publish their information publicly. It is the work of a small team with a small budget, which means we will continue to build the Index over months as players claim their profiles and as new programs emerge.
What Comes Next
The launch index is a foundation. The natural next moves: expand college coverage as more NAIA, NCAA, and club programs publish 2026-27 rosters; add more national teams as they qualify for the 2027 World Games and 2028 Olympics; build out high school in a compliance-first way; and start linking the player profiles into the rest of the FlagsOnly site so a game recap and a player profile are one click apart. None of that is urgent today. The urgent thing was establishing that the database exists at all.
Flag football is two years from the Olympics. The world's best players are on the field right now. They deserve a reference catalog as serious as the sport they play. Today, they have one.