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NFL to launch professional flag football leagues ahead of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
NFL aims to engage young fans with separate men’s and women’s flag football leagues launching before the 2028 Olympics, marking the sport’s Olympic debut.
- On Thursday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL plans to launch women's and men's professional flag football leagues in the next couple of years ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
- The league says it has prioritized flag football to attract young fans, committing to both a women's professional league and a men's professional flag league.
- Playing a record-high seven games abroad this season, six of them in Europe, Goodell said the NFL must expand beyond Europe and the Americas at the Leaders in Sport conference at Twickenham Stadium.
- Goodell said football and sports bring communities together, while colleges in the United States and universities internationally seek to add flag football programs.
- Goodell reiterated plans to increase games abroad to 16, confirming returns to Mexico City and Australia next year, with Asia planned shortly thereafter.
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Men's and women's circuits will be born in two years' time, before the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028
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NFL to launch professional flag football leagues ahead of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league plans to launch women’s and men’s professional flag football leagues “in the next couple of years."
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