How Much Do UFL Coaches Make?

First things first, the UFL does not publish coaching salaries so alot of information speaks to ranges

Best available reporting points to six figures on the high end. Pro Football Network, put claims of UFL coaches salary sitting around $55,000 – $90,000 back in 2025.

NFL head coaches sit in a different universe: Andy Reid and John Harbaugh earn roughly $20 million a year.

The UFL spent a big part of 2026 selling stability to fans, TV partners and investors. It’s fair to say that the coaches have far less autonomy inside a league that has complete ownership of all teams.

In some ways, it’s fair to consider NFL coaches to be operating in a some sort contract agreement with teams while UFL coaches are essentially high-salaried employees of the UFL ownership group.

UFL Head Coaches: 2026 Results and 2027 Moves

Here is quick look at some of the head coaching moves for the current United Football League coaches.

Team	2026 head coach	2026 record	2027 assignment
Orlando Storm	Anthony Becht	8-2	–
St. Louis Battlehawks	Ricky Proehl	6-4	–
Louisville Kings	Chris Redman	6-4	–
DC Defenders	Shannon Harris	5-5	–
Dallas Renegades	Rick Neuheisel	4-6	Colorado (2027)
Birmingham Stallions	A.J. McCarron	4-6	Rhode Island Breakers
Houston Gamblers	Kevin Sumlin	4-6	Dallas Renegades
Columbus Aviators	Ted Ginn Jr.	3-7	–

Browse every franchise on the Sports Monetize UFL teams index.

Why UFL Coaches Make a Fraction of NFL Pay

It’s quite obvious that the UFL is a developmental spring league that isn’t intended to compete with the NFL, but rather compliment it.

The structure of the UFL could expand to bring more revenue while allowing somewhat even distribution to coaches in all market sizes. Which some could see as a positive.

As the league evolves, maybe there is space to organize advocacy for players and coaches. American football is very dangerous at every level.

Revenue is small. The league averaged roughly 10,800 fans per game in 2026, playoffs included, in venues ranging from 11,000 seats in Frisco to 67,000 in St. Louis (see the UFL stadium index), and TV audiences averaged about half a million viewers per window. Viewership was up about 3% through the first five weeks, a modest gain, not a breakout.

The new owners are cutting costs. Mike Repole’s Impact Capital bought a large minority stake in July 2025 and took over business operations. The league then liquidated rosters, redrafted every player, trimmed regular-season rosters to 45 and kept its centralized hub model. Only one head coach, Shannon Harris in D.C., kept the same job he held in 2025.

The hiring pool looks different. Three 2026 hires had little or no coaching experience: Ginn had never coached, Redman’s only prior coaching was at the high school assistant level, and McCarron’s was youth flag football. That suggests the job is not priced like an NFL or major-college head coaching search.

What About UFL Players Pay?

Player pay is public. Under the current collective bargaining agreement, the minimum is $6,400 per game. Over a 10-game regular season, that works out to $64,000 in base pay for a player active every week. Players on the title-winning team earned a $5,000 bonus each.

FAQs

There is no verified reporting. Stoops was the best-known earner of the XFL era at more than $1 million in 2020, but he retired in December 2025, and current UFL deals are not public.

The league has not disclosed it. XFL head coaches earned six figures a year in 2023, and UFL coaches have taken pay reductions since, so six figures is the ceiling the reporting supports. Pro Football Network’s 2025 estimate of $55,000 to $90,000 cites no contract data.

Yes. The 2026 season was the first in which every head coach had a year-long contract rather than a seasonal one.

NFL head coaches at the top of the market earn about $20 million a year. Even by the most generous reading of the UFL reporting, its head coaches earn a small fraction of that.

Sources

Coaching salaries are undisclosed; this article will be updated if figures are reported.

More UFL data: teams and stadiums.

Jamie Freya

Hey, I’m a digital publisher based in Arizona. Various web projects spanning fantasy football to entrepreneurship since 2019. Worker-owner in Pecan Milk Cooperative since 2021. Go Bears!