Fall Experimental Football League

Fall Experimental Football League
SportAmerican football
FoundedMay 7, 2014
First season2014
Ceased2016
CEOBrian Woods
No. of teams3
CountryUnited States
Last
champion(s)		Brooklyn Bolts
TV partner(s)ESPN3
Regional channels
Related
competitions		TSL, USFL
Official websitegofxfl.com

The Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL) was a professional football minor league that played two seasons in 2014 and 2015. This league's stated goal was to become a professional feeder-system for the National Football League (NFL).

The league claimed 44 out of 126 players ended up on NFL rosters.[1] After the FXFL ceased operations, FXFL founder and CEO Brian Woods made another attempt at an NFL feeder-system by creating The Spring League in 2017.[2]

Woods and the FXFL were subject to lawsuit after folding, claiming he did not pay players, assistant coaches, cheerleaders and officials. In 2019 Woods settled and agreed to pay the plaintiffs $300,000.[3]

  1. ^ Clayton, John (December 23, 2016). "Spring league kicking off 4-team, 3-week development plan in April". ABC News. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference espn-tsl was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "A new USFL intends to relaunch. Can it avoid the overpopulated graveyard of failed football leagues?".