The latest flag football coverage — from youth leagues to the pros to the Olympics.
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. The venture is backed by $192 million in total funding ahead of flag football's 2028 Olympic debut.
Canada's women beat the United States 27-20 in Dusseldorf for their first world title since 2014, the United States men held off Italy 46-26, and four nations claimed the first quota places for flag football's Olympic debut.
Vanita Krouch, a three-time IFAF world champion and the most decorated athlete in U.S. women's flag football, will lead player relations for the professional league launching ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The pro flag football league backed by all 32 NFL owners has its two senior builders: longtime NBA executive Brendan Donohue as its first president, and veteran NFL personnel executive Champ Kelly leading football operations.
The third annual NFL Flag Championships drew 14.3 million unique viewers across ABC, ESPN and Disney platforms, and the Girls' High School final became the most-watched flag football game ever televised.
The Indianapolis Colts announced that 108 Indiana high schools now sponsor girls flag football, completing the franchise's Road to 100 initiative three years in the making.
More than 325 teams and 15 international squads converged on Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana, where the Los Angeles Seahawks won the girls' high school title in overtime and the Ocala Bucs ran away with the boys' 14U crown.
