The plan is to expand by four teams by 2027.
The United Football League is looking to add four teams to the business with two starting in 2026 and two starting in 2027 assuming the league survives the 2025 season. The eight team UFL will begin the 2025 season on March 28th and the league owner Rupert Murdoch and his FOX network will showing the opening game on a Friday night and in an effort to capture more TV viewers. FOX will be showing a weekly Friday night game during the 10-week season. The UFL wants to expand but it is unclear whether league executives will go to city to city looking for owners or owners will just materialize. The UFL has stayed away from America’s biggest cities except for Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Washington, D. C. and the St. Louis markets.
According to a league news release, “the UFL is …