The UFL 2025 Regular Season has concluded. The UFL’s average TV rating for the 2025 season after 10 weeks and 40 games is 651,000 viewers per game across FOX, ABC, ESPN, and FS1. Representing a 19% decrease from the UFL’s 2024 ratings average, including the postseason at 816,000.
Internally, the hope is that the UFL playoffs, including two conference championship clashes this coming Sunday on ABC and FOX, plus the UFL Championship game on Saturday, June 14th, will help send the merged USFL-XFL league’s second season on a high note.
Week 10 had a tough act to follow in viewership, sandwiched between the league’s highest weekly average viewership (951k) and this coming Sunday’s highly pivotal conference championship games.
UFL 2025 Season: Week 10 TV Ratings On FOX/ESPN/ABC
This past Friday night’s UFL on FOX Regular Season Finale featuring the St. Louis Battlehawks and DC Defenders averaged 670,000 viewers. It was the league’s highest rated Friday night game on FOX since Week 4. The 5/30 telecast peaked at 814,000 viewers during the game’s opening 15 minutes, which came shortly before a lengthy weather delay. St. Louis and DC will square off again on FOX this coming Sunday at 6 pm ET, with a berth in the UFL title game on June 14th at stake.
For the season, FOX weekly UFL games on Fridays averaged 613,000 viewers.
On Saturday afternoon 5/31, the UFL game featuring the Michigan Panthers and Houston Roughnecks averaged 324,000 viewers. The game only aired as scheduled on ESPN for 98 minutes. (4:32-6:10 p ET) The telecast was bumped from ESPN to ESPN News at its original start time at 3 pm ET due to the continuation of NCAA Baseball. ESPN News is a network not charted by Nielsen Media Research.
Sunday’s noon ET UFL game on ABC, featuring the Arlington Renegades and San Antonio Brahmas, averaged 741,000 viewers. The game peaked at 837,000 viewers in its final 15 minutes. (2:45-3 pm).
In terms of full-year viewership, ABC ended the regular season with eight of the top 10 most-viewed UFL games. ABC will air the USFL conference championship game this Sunday at 3 pm ET, followed by the 2025 UFL Championship Game on Saturday, June 14th.
This past Sunday’s UFL regular season finale on FOX, which saw the Birmingham Stallions decimate the Memphis Showboats 46-9, was watched by an average of 625,000 viewers. The blowout contest reached its peak quarter-hour of viewership from 5:00 to 5:15, with 703,000 viewers.
The Stallions are aiming to become the first outdoor professional football team to win four consecutive league championships since the CFL’s Edmonton franchise achieved this feat in the late 1970s to early 1980s, en route to winning five straight Grey Cups. Birmingham gets their chance to get back to a fourth straight title game this Sunday on ABC when it meets up with Michigan.
The Week 10 overall viewership average for the UFL was 594,500.
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by 4th&long
The UFL is snake bit this season. No NBA or NHL game Friday and there’s a 47min weather delay and rain trenched 1st half with a kow scoring game… UGH
The Sat ESPN game is delayed 1.5 hours for due to a college baseball game with Wake forest and who? Starts on ESPNNEWS? Ugh. This game should have been the ABC game.
ABC had so-so viewership for them. Was the game preempted in SA again? Still 741k was ok.
And Fox getting 625k for a blowout by Bham? not too bad for them but needs to do better.
BTW for the week I have 590k avg not 594.5k
Reg season I have 645k, better than USFL/XFL in 2023, but way down from UFL 2025.
The USFL conf champ game has 1 hr overlap with NBA finals – I hope that doesn’t hit the game too hard.
Lets see if UFL can have a strong playoff and lift viewership above the 2023 634/631 XFL/USFL avg.