The 2025 UFL season is set to begin Friday amid an ongoing labor dispute between the league and its players. The UFL and the United Football Players Association (UFPA) do not have a CBA in place ...

UFL players will open the season without a CBA, a source told ESPN, but they planned to present a letter to league co-owner Dwayne Johnson asking for help.

Players from the St. Louis Battlehawks and Houston Roughnecks in the UFL wrote a letter personally appealing to UFL co-owner Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson amid the league's labor dispute. ESPN's Kevin ...

The United Football Players Association has hammered out its first collective bargaining agreement with the UFL, ratifying a ...

The UFL and its union had been trying — and failing — to craft a new labor deal. With the players not inclined to strike, it became harder to get a deal done. With nearly a third of the 2025 ...

The deal, which is pending final approval from the UFL, is retroactive to the start of training camp, which opened March 2, and will extend through the end of the 2026 season. The new CBA includes ...

The sides have been working for months on the CBA and hoped to reach agreement before players reported to training camp earlier this month. After listing a series of complaints against UFL ...