Flag football is the 18th sport NFHS has provided a set of rules, and the first since lacrosse (boys in 2000, girls in 2016) to be added. “The NFHS looks forward to being involved with the ...

The rules are going to closely follow those of high school football, in which there will be four 12-minute quarters and touchdowns counting for six points. What differs now is when teams decide to ...

You can add another sport for girls to play in high school this fall. Flag football is set to be an emerging sport for the girls, with practices getting underway on August 4th and games taking place ...

According to the national governing body for high school sports, girls flag football has more than doubled in participants since from 2022-23 (20,875) to 2023-24 (42,955), an increase of 105 percent.

Some of the world's best youth flag football players are competing for a championship this weekend, including a team from Waldorf. "What makes it so special is you take a homegrown kid, somebody who ...

Olympics flag football will come with its own set of tweaked American football rules: a shorter field, fewer players and no linemen, to name a few. NFL STATS CENTRAL: The latest NFL scores ...

This decision comes two years after an amendment that would have added girls’ flag football to the list of sanctioned school sports failed to advance in 2023. When WIAA, made up of 53 district ...

NFL teams will allow players to participate in the Olympic debut of flag football at the 2028 Los Angeles Games under a set of conditions. “It’s an incredible honor for any athlete to represent their ...

The flag football camp is part of the same non-profit that created the Pro Football Camp, a popular youth football camp that has attracted hundreds of kids for the past 20 years. This year’s Pro ...

In 2023, about 500,000 girls ages 6-17 played flag football, according to an NFHS report in January 2025 — an increase of 63% from 2019. In high school alone, the number of girls double from ...

In 2023, about 500,000 girls ages 6-17 played flag football, according to an NFHS report in January 2025 — an increase of 63% from 2019.