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The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) has announced that Lahti, Finland, will host the 2024 Flag Football World Championships at the Pajulahti Olympic and Paralympic Training Center. The event will be held between August 25–30, 2024, bringing together the top men’s and women’s teams in one of the world’s fastest-growing sports. It follows the […]
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The newly formed “Vision28” Group has been created to lead flag football’s efforts towards inclusion at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles, it was announced during The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama. Pierre Trochet and Troy Vincent have been named co-chairs of the group. Trochet is president of the International Federation of […]
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USA Football has announced that the Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield, Indiana, will host “The One” flag football championship from July 23–25, 2021, in conjuction with the Hamilton County Sports Authority. The event is among the largest youth and adult flag football tournaments in the United States, featuring teams across 13 divisions from age […]
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The inaugural NAIA Women’s Flag Football Finals will be held May 4–8 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in conjuction with NFL Flag and Reigning Champs Experiences. Ten teams will compete: Milligan University, Kansas Wesleyan University, Keiser University College of Golf, University of Saint Mary, Midland University, St. Thomas University, Webber International University, Xavier University of […]
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The National Junior College Athletic Association has officially announced women’s flag football as an emerging sport in a joint effort with the National Football League and Reigning Champs Experiences, with the NFL providing a $150,000 grant to the NJCAA Foundation for distribution to member colleges that declare their intent to participate in the sport over […]
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Nike and the NFL have announced a new grant initiative to grow girls’ involvement in flag football, committing $5 million to grow the game within high school athletics. This multi-year initiative will provide a one-time donation of up to $100,000 in products that will be given to state athletic associations that offer girls flag football […]
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Flag football has joined the event program at The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama, the first time since 1981 that the international multisport event will be held in the United States. The announcement came in partnership with the International World Games Association, the National Football League and International Federation of American Football. With […]
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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics will start women’s flag football as an official sport by 2021 thanks to a two-year partnership between the NAIA, the National Football League and Reigning Champs Experiences. The agreement will give the NAIA the ability to develop league infrastructure and operations for the first women’s flag football competition governed by […]
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