
Oklahoma City is home to the reigning NBA champions, the increasingly popular Women’s College World Series in softball and will host softball and canoe slalom in the 2028 Summer Olympics. That same year the town will have another point of sporting pride with the birth of an expansion team in the United Football League.
The yet-to-be-named organization will be one of two expansion teams expected to start play in the fifth season of the UFL, which kicked off its third season last week with eight teams. The league launched in 2024 as the merger of the XFL and the United States Football League. Five teams remain from that inaugural season: the Birmingham Stallions, Dallas Renegades (formerly known as the Arlington Renegades), Houston Gamblers (formerly known as the Roughnecks), St. Louis Battlehawks and D.C. Defenders. Previous teams in Detroit, Memphis and San Antonio folded after last season and were replaced by new clubs in Columbus, Louisville and Orlando.
The league has designs on growing to 16 teams by 2035.
The new team in Oklahoma City will play at a new downtown venue: MAPS 4 Multipurpose Stadium, which is currently under development by Populous and is scheduled to open in 2028 with a capacity of just over 10,000. The groundbreaking will be held in June.




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