Spring Promise: The future looks bright for the UFL
It's been a long and difficult road for spring pro football over the past decade, but early results suggest the UFL could be the most promising league yet.
The UFL's regular season viewership has far surpassed spring football viewership in recent years, averaging 816,000 viewers for regular season games this season on FOX, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and FS1. The league not only surpassed the 2023 numbers of the USFL (601,000 viewers) and XFL (622,000 viewers), but also outperformed the USFL's 2022 performance (715,000 viewers) as its only spring league.
The increased viewership is a source of confidence for the production team, led by director Mitch Riggin and producer Mark Teitelman, and the operations team of Lindsay Wayne, Sarita Mainking, Phil Abrahams, Wilson Tenorman, Savannah Brotherton, Erin Knight, Carlos Gonzalez, Bill Moore, Eric Foster, Sean Kwashnain, Wes Berry, Jordan McFadden, Doug Fuchs, Ron McGuggins, Jamie Necranson and Tom Lynch.
“What this team has accomplished over the past three seasons, from the USFL to the UFL, has been amazing because they've had new challenges to overcome and new partners to work with,” Chaney said. “This year has been no different, and it's been great to watch the team grow and integrate so smoothly with their new partners.”
