The new United Football League announced its full 43-game schedule Monday, kicking off with a March 30 matchup of the champions from the two leagues that formed it and concluding with a championship game June 16.
UFL teams will practice in a central location near Dallas but will play five games apiece in their home markets as part of a 10-game schedule. The league, formed last year via a merger between the XFL and USFL, will open with a March 30 game between the USFL champion Birmingham Stallions and the XFL champion Arlington Renegades at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington, Texas (1 p.m. ET/FOX).
The rest of the opening weekend’s schedule includes:
• St. Louis Battlehawks at Michigan Panthers (March 30, 4 p.m. ET/FOX)
• D.C. Defenders at San Antonio Brahmas (March 31, noon ET/ESPN)
• Memphis Showboats at Houston Roughnecks (March 31, 3 p.m. ET/ESPN)
The UFL will host two conference championship games the weekend of June 8-9 to determine the participants in its league championship game the following weekend.
Every UFL game will be televised on either ABC, Fox, ESPN, ESPN2 or FS1. ABC/ESPN games will be streamed on ESPN+, and Fox games will stream on the Fox Sports app. Nearly three-quarters of the games will air on either ABC or Fox.