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Oct 13, 2024 Hot In the City - Day 1 at Nationals It wasn’t exactly like Melbourne footy weather, but in some ways, we had a Four Seasons in One Day opening session at the 2024 USAFL Nationals. The teams arrived for an 8am start in darkness, and with the temperature about 65F. Buy the time the day was over and the first 46 games had been played, it was blustery but also up near 95F. And tomorrow, both the action on the field and the atmosphere will be pretty hot. Read more » |
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Oct 10, 2024 2024 USAFL Nationals Viewing Guide For the second straight year, the USAFL is proud to partner with Gridiron Productions, LLC to bring you live, streaming coverage of the 2024 USAFL National Championships. A record 36 games will be shown live over the carnival’s two days including the Men's D1-D4 Grand Finals and the Women's Grand Final. All teams will have at least one game streamed, and streaming will be globally available via the Gridiron Productions YouTube Page. Read more » |
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Oct 9, 2024 2024 Nationals - Women's D1 and D2 Preview Women's football, just like everything else, is bigger in Texas. It's been nine years since the USAFL's women's competition expanded to a second division, featuring combined sides to go with D1's full slate. There's been some success and challenges, but there has also been some unforgetable results and matchups. Here in 2024, nineteen USAFL clubs and two from AFL Canada will come together to determine who will be queens of the oval. Both groups of champions will have their crowns challenged. Read more » |
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Oct 8, 2024 International Program Reappoints Head Coaches The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) International Program is excited to announce the reappointment of Andrew Donlen as head coach of the US Freedom women’s national team and Kyle Strenski as head coach of the US Revolution men’s national team. Both coaches had successful campaigns in 2024 when the program did a big reset after the COVID disruption led to a lapse in international competition. Read more » |
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Oct 8, 2024 2024 Nationals - Men's D1 and D2 Preview Austin, Texas. A capital city. Capital in many respects. It’s a great place to live. There is some damn good food here. Some of the best barebque and Tex-Mex I’ve had while grazing God’s green planet have been during one of our four previous trips to Austin for Nationals. The music scene is really good too, whether you like country or indie or rock or whatever. They are the Live Music Capital of the world after all. Maybe the air makes the notes sound sweeter. Who knows? Read more » |
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Sep 27, 2024 2024 USAFL Nationals Divisions Announced The USAFL is proud to announce the seedings for the seven divisions to be contested at the 2024 USAFL National Championships at the Onion Creek Soccer Complex in Austin, Texas. This year's tournament features 45 teams from across the USA and Canada. The divisions were announced live on the USAFL YouTube page on Thursday, September 26th, hosted by USAFL.com's Brian Barrish, USAFL President April Munn and USAFL International Program head Dan Sarbacker. Read more » |
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Sep 26, 2024 Dan Sarbacker Appointed to Lead International Program The USAFL is excited to announce the appointment of Dan “Sars” Sarbacker as the new lead of the International Program, following the successful 2024 Reset initiative. Sarbacker has a deep-rooted history with the USAFL garnering numerous accolades and making significant contributions to both club and country, as well as administrative positions with the league itself. He will step into this pivotal role as the organization prepares for an ambitious future. Read more » |
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Sep 16, 2024 2024 AFL Grand Final Watch Parties Every country in the world has it's one centerpiece sporting event. Its one climax where all eyeballs are on a strip of grass or hardwood or ice or whatever, between the two best teams dueling for supremacy. Here in the US we have a few, but the Super Bowl commands the most attention with its pomp and pathos and the like. Read more » |
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Aug 25, 2024 August 2024 Odin Mortgage Coaches Polls Time stops for no one, and rarely does the USAFL season. The 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup has dominated the attention of the international Aussie Rules world for the past month. But back home, the march towards Nationals carried on with sixteen men’s games and two women’s games. There were slight effects thereof upon the August edition of the Odin Mortgage Polls. The Women’s top 10 remained exactly the same as July, while the Men’s top 20 saw slight but significant movement up and down the table. Read more » |
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Aug 10, 2024 TAC Day 8 - Revos Rout Canada, Advance to Final There have been 25 years of USA Revolution football. Many unique moments of glory across many dozens of players in locations all over the world. But never have they played themselves into a tournament final. Archrival Canada, despite their best efforts, were no match for the Revos in the 2024 AFL Transatlantic Cup semifinal. Thanks to a 65-11 victory, Kyle Strenski’s team will face off against Ireland on Sunday at 1:45pm ET/10:45am PT in their first ever tournament Grand Final. Read more » |
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Aug 9, 2024 TAC Day 7 - Freedom Pip Canada For First Finals Berth Victory and defeat are fickle. They can be decided by wide gulfs or minute margins. The USA Freedom will be playing for a championship thanks to the knuckles of Amanda Boe. It wasn’t a knockout punch, but rather a timely jab of the football over the line in the dying seconds of Team USA’s semifinal match against Canada. The 14-13 win was the first for the Freedom over the Northern Lights in twelve years, and punched their ticket into the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup Grand Final. Read more » |
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Aug 7, 2024 TAC Day 6 - Revos Edge Ireland in Thriller Records are made to be broken. So are droughts. In six matches, the Irish Warriors have downed the USA Revolution four times. The last American victory was in the third place game IC05, which gave the Revos their best ever finish. After a scrappy game that was not for the faint of heart, the U.S. came from behind in a feverish fourth quarter to pip Ireland 53-51 in one of the best games in program history. The win left them as the best Americas side at the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup, and will roll them into a semifinal against Canada on Friday. Read more » |
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Aug 6, 2024 TAC Day 5 - Freedom Top Group with GB Win Being last is sometimes a good thing. For the USA Freedom, they had the last pool game of the women’s division against Great Britain. Coming in, they would know exactly what they would need to accomplish in order to advance to the semi-finals. And after Colombia’s opening day upset over France, there was the chance that there would be tie-breaker combinations at play. Read more » |
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