2022 USFL Season

The 2022 USFL Season was the first season of the revived USFL. Season begun play on April 16 2022 and will end on July 3 2022 with the USFL Championship. For 2022, the entire league is held in Birmingham, Alabama at Protective Stadium (Week 1-7 and 9) and Legion Field (Week 8 and 10), with the Playoffs taking place in Canton.

## Location

The Entire League was played to be held in Birmingham for 2022.

For Week 1-7 and 9, the season will take place at Protective Stadium and Week 8 and 10 will be at Legion Field with the 3 playoff matches at Tom Benson Hall of Fame stadium. Protective Stadium hosted scrimmage matches to test out broadcasting for FOX and NBC in March 2022.

The First Game of the season was between the Michigan Panthers and the Birmingham Stallions and had a 26,000 attendance. However during the opening weekend, the attendances begin to rapidly drop. Reasons were probably that it was in just one location and not much attendance unless its a Birmingham Stallions games.

However, the attendance really increased in the opening playoff game, with a 20,000 attendance at Tom Benson Hall Of Fame Stadium, when the Panthers defeated the Generals 20-13. In the South Division Championship, it was even higher, with a total attendance of 22,000. Similar attendance took place in South Division Championship. The Championship game saw a sold out crowd of 23,000.

## Draft

The 2022 USFL Draft was held for the teams to fill out their rosters in February 2022, there were position based rounds and then a supplemental draft.

## Season Schedule

In November 2021, the league announced each team would play a 10 game schedule making up 40 games and 3 playoff matches.

## Playoffs

The 2022 USFL Playoffs are set to be held from June 25 to July 3. The entire tournament will be held in canton. It is a Four Team Playoff Bracket of 1st vs 2nd in both North and South divisions, with the winners playing for the league championship.

### Division Championship

 Network
(millions)
 June 25, 3:00 p.m.
 June 25, 8:00 p.m.

### League Championship

 Network
(millions)
 July 3, 7:30 p.m.

## League Finances

For the 2022 regular season, tickets cost $10 per person, with children aged 15 and under free. However, for the 2 division finals games tickets will cost $15 per person with children aged 15 and under $5, for the championship game those prices are increased by $5 (meaning $20 per person and $10 for children 15 and under) Tickets provide access to all games scheduled for the same day. On March 3, 2022, the league announced that 15 states have approved legal, regulated betting on USFL games.

## References

1. ↑ USFL Stadiums for 2022
2. ↑ USFL 2022 Dates confirmed
3. ↑ USFL 2022: Birmingham to host regular season and the playoffs are set to be held in Canton
4. ↑ USFL Attendances for 2022
5. ↑ Why do USFL attendances seem not that big?
6. ↑ USFL Playoffs: Attendance high for North Division Championship
7. ↑ USFL CHAMPIONSHIP REACHES SOLD OUT CROWD
8. ↑ 23,000 saw the USFL Championship
9. ↑ 2022 USFL Draft
10. ↑ USFL 2022: Playoffs
11. ↑ How does the USFL Playoffs work for 2022?
12. ↑ Panthers-Generals and Breakers-Stallions confirmed playoff matches and winners of them face off in the Final. 2022 USFL Playoffs
13. ↑ USFL Championship review
14. ↑ USFL Finances for 2022