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The United States Football League (USFL) was a professional American football league that played for three seasons, 1983 through 1985. The league played a spring/summer schedule in each of its active seasons.
Legally, nine of the 16 teams in two leagues remained in existence when the XFL and USFL merged: five from the XFL and four from the USFL, with eight of those nine teams playing the 2024 and 2025 seasons. The USFL's Houston Gamblers took on the identity and home city of the XFL's Houston Roughnecks, which folded. [5]
The league was created following the merger of the latest incarnations of the XFL and United States Football League (USFL). [3] It consists of eight teams, all of which were members of the XFL or USFL prior to the UFL's creation, concentrated in the Midwest and Southern United States. [4]
It is now one of the two conferences of the United Football League (UFL), along with the United States Football League (USFL). The XFL league headquarters were in Arlington, Texas. The league was founded by WWE executive Vince McMahon in 2018, as a continuation successor to the league of the same name he founded in 2001.
In 2023, the XFL—by this time owned by Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners—re-filed for the UFL and United Football League trademarks ahead of its proposed merger with the United States Football League. [60] On December 31, 2023, the XFL and USFL announced the formation of the modern United Football League. [61]
In September 2023, Axios reported that the XFL was in advanced talks with the USFL to merge the two leagues prior to the start of their 2024 seasons. [18] On September 28, 2023, the XFL and USFL announced their intent to merge with details surrounding the merger to be announced at a later date. [19] The merger would also require regulatory ...
The Spring League then rebranded itself as a second incarnation of the United States Football League in the 2022 offseason, returning to a professional format. The XFL (which resumed play in 2023 under Johnson and Garcia ownership) and USFL merged in 2024 to become a new league also named the United Football League .
The Arlington Renegades are a professional American football team based in Arlington, Texas. The Renegades compete in the United Football League (UFL) as a member of the XFL Conference. The team was founded as the Dallas Renegades by Vince McMahon's Alpha Entertainment and are owned-and-operated by Dwayne Johnson's Alpha Acquico and Fox ...