The XFL is a professional American football minor league with eight teams situated all across United States in semi to key markets delivered by at least one other major professional team. Seasons span from February through April, with each team playing ten games during the regular season and four teams advancing to the playoffs to determine the season champion. It is centred in Arlington, Texas. Former WWE executive Vince McMahon founded the league in 2018, as a relaunch and predecessor to the league that had the same name, he founded in 2001. McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment previously owned the league as well as its teams.
The XFL is one of three pro leagues in the United States, the other two being the top-tier National Football League and the complicated United States Football League, which is owned by Fox Corporation. The XFL operates during the winter and early spring months, following the conclusion of the NFL season but before the start of the USFL season. The XFL has a player personnel collaboration with the Indoor Football League (IFL), with the league operating as its de-facto minor league.
Below are the six XFL sports teams, together with details about the stadiums and head coaching staff for each franchise:
- Arlington Renegades
Coach: Bob Stoops
Stoops is best known for his accomplishment as the head coach of the University of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2016. He restored national recognition to a floundering Sooners programme, capturing a title in 2000 and leading Oklahoma to 10 Big 12 titles in 18 seasons. Stoops gathered a 191-48 record with the Sooners, attempting to make him the greatest coach in Oklahoma history. In 2020, he coached the Dallas Renegades of the XFL, contributing them to a 2-3 record.
Stadium: Choctaw Stadium
- Houston Roughnecks
Coach: Wade Phillips
Phillips has trained pro football dating back to 1976, having served as a defending assistant head coach for 10 NFL franchises, most lately as the Los Angeles Rams’ coordinator from 2017 to 2019. Phillips has also coached in the NFL, where he went 83-69 in nine seasons (including playoffs) with the Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills, and Dallas Cowboys.
Stadium: TDECU Stadium
- San Antonio Brahmas
Coach: Hines Ward
Mentor and head coach after a prestigious 14-year footballing career for the Pittsburgh Steelers, wherein he made four Pro Bowls and served as the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XL. Ward had 1,000 completions for 12,083 yards and 85 touchdowns in his football career. He has four distinct seasons of mentoring experience, most lately as the receiver’s trainer at Florida Atlantic in 2021.
Stadium: Alamodome
- Seattle Sea Dragons
Coach: Jim Haslett
Together with attempting to play 8 seasons in the NFL as a defensive lineman for the Bills and New York Jets and mentoring the New Orleans Saints for six seasons from 2000 to 2005, Haslett has expertise with spinoff football leagues, as he prompted the United Football League’s Florida Tuskers to a 6-0 record in 2009. As a head coach, defensive coordinator, and line-backers coach in the NFL, Haslett has for almost three decades of experience.
Stadium: Lumen Field
- St. Louis BattleHawks
Coach: Anthony Becht
Becht was a first-round top prospect by the Jets in 2000 and managed to spend 11 seasons in the NFL as a right tackle for the Jets, Buccaneers, Rams, Arizona Cardinals and Kansas City Chiefs. Becht, a defensive backs trainer for the Alliance of American Football’s San Diego Fleet, had 188 career completions for 1,537 yards and 21 touchdown passes as a player.
Stadium: The Dome at America’s Center
- Vegas Vipers
Coach: Rod Woodson
Woodson was incorporated into the Hall of Fame of Pro Football in 2009, following a 17-year profession with the Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Ravens, and Raiders during which he established an NFL history with 12 interception returns for touchdown passes and finished third in league history with 71 turnovers. Woodson, who won the Super Bowl with the Ravens in 2000, spent 3 seasons as an assistant head coach with the Raiders from 2015 to 2017.
Stadium: TBA
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