The United Football League is back.
The UFL returns Friday with a matchup between the Houston Roughnecks and St. Louis Battlehawks. A merger between the USFL and XFL that was announced in September 2023 created the league.
ESPN will be broadcasting Sunday’s games, beginning with the Michigan Panthers playing at the Memphis Showboats at noon ET, followed by the Birmingham Stallions at the D.C. Defenders at 3 p.m. ET.
Here’s a look at what each team will be wearing this season, plus their records wearing each combination last season.
Arlington Renegades
The Renegades alternated their looks last season and it’s a similar trend this time around.
Their home uniforms include baby blue jersey and matching pants with a slightly darker blue helmet that has a black stripe from back to front. On the road, the uniforms and pants turn white while the helmet color remains.
Arlington went 2-4 in its home threads and 1-4 in its road unis last season.
Birmingham Stallions
The defending champion Stallions return their familiar red, gold and white color scheme. They wore red jerseys with gold pants and helmets at home last season. On the road, Birmingham wore white jerseys with white pants.
The helmet decal serves as the difference between their present uniforms and its original from the 1983 USFL season. Birmingham originally had a red stallion, but switched to a stallion head when the league returned in 2022. The Stallions went 6-1 wearing red last season, 5-0 in white, including in the UFL Championship game.
DC Defenders
Since making their XFL debut in the 2020 version of the league that was shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Defenders have worn the same colors on the road and at home. However, in the 2023 version of the XFL, DC stopped wearing its all-white combination from 2020, instead going with red pants home and away. The helmet logo also changed from two lightning bolts intersecting to a capital “D” with a star inside it.
The Defenders brought those uniforms to the UFL last season and it’s the same this time around. DC will rock all-red jerseys and pants with white helmets at home and white threads with red pants and white helmets on the road. They went 2-3 while wearing white jerseys and 2-3 in red.
Houston Roughnecks
The chest is navy while the shoulders are white, creating a clean contrast. A red shadow looms over the numbers to pair with the white pants, offering a nice aesthetic at home. The colors alternate on the road with white on the chest and navy along the shoulders with navy pants.
The helmet is the real star, with the design resembling the Texas state flag. One side features the logo and the other has the player’s number. The Roughnecks went 1-5 in navy uniforms, 0-4 in white.
Memphis Showboats
Memphis has a similar style of jersey to Houston, with a primary color on the chest and another on the shoulders. At home, Memphis wears navy uniforms and pants with yellow across the shoulder. On the road, it flips to white uniforms and pants with navy across the shoulder.
The Showboats went 1-4 last season when it wore primarily navy and 1-4 in primarily white.
Michigan Panthers
Michigan and Birmingham are the only two teams from the first season of the original USFL in 1983 to play in the UFL. Just like the Stallions, the Panthers’ uniforms are similar to what they wore decades ago.
Michigan has kept its plum, gold and white color palette largely untouched. It will wear plum with gold pants at home and white with plum pants on the road.
The Panthers had a 3-3 record in white, 4-1 in plum.
San Antonio Brahmas
San Antonio rocks yellow jerseys with dark gray pants and helmets on the road, and all gray at home. The Brahmas have one of the best helmet decals in the league — a brahma bullhorn that pops in yellow.
When the uniforms were revealed in December 2022, the colorways were influenced by then-head coach Hines Ward, who spent his entire NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The “Blood, Sweat, Respect,” slogan on the collar of the jerseys is a message from the ownership to the players.
The Brahmans went 6-1 in yellow and and 3-2 in all gray.
St. Louis Battlehawks
St. Louis has arguably the cleanest home uniforms in the UFL — all-blue jerseys and pants matched with silver helmets. It’s slightly similar to the Indianapolis Colts‘ “Indiana Nights” uniforms that debuted in 2023. However, the Battlehawks opt for silver rather than the Colts’ black.
Their uniforms are all blue at home, all silver on the road, though they did wear blue pants with silver for one game last season.
The Battlehawks were 5-1 in blue uniforms, 2-3 in silver.
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