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The flag football competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022, [1] in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. [2]Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
The 2028 Summer Olympics will introduce the sport of flag football for the first time. Two events, one for men and one for women, will be held. Flag football, a non-contact variant of American football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them, was previously contested at the 2022 World Games and will be featured at the 2025 World Games.
In July 2022, the National Football League (NFL) and the IFAF partnered on a bid for flag football to be included as an optional event during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The NFL had sponsored the inclusion of flag football as an invitational event during that month's 2022 World Games —a multi-sport event featuring sports and ...
The team is governed by USA Football. As of 2024, the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) ranks the United States men's team 1st worldwide. [2] Team USA has won the won the IFAF Flag Football World Championship six times, most recently in 2024. In 2022, Team USA won a gold medal at the World Games.
It was the 12th most popular girls sport in 2023-24 with 42,955 participants, according to the National Federation of High Schools, and almost a half million girls ages 6 to 17 played flag ...
Flag football was added for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and has gained momentum as a varsity high school sport. The Emerging Sports for Women program, established in 1994, is intended to help ...
The 2022 NAIA flag football season was the component of the 2022 college football season organized by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States. It was the second season of the NAIA sponsoring flag football as a varsity women's sport, in contrast with traditional, full-contact college football which is ...
In 2016, at the age of 18, she participated in the IFAF Flag Football World Championship held in Miami, Florida. The team won the bronze medal. [6] Flores also played for the Mexico national team in Panama in 2018, and Jerusalem in 2021. As quarterback, she took the team to gold at the 2022 World Games. [7]