Tournament size
6 + 6 teams
One six-team women's tournament and one six-team men's tournament.
Olympic flag football
LA28.
Flag football's Olympic debut
Six women's teams and six men's teams will play at the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Here is what is settled, what is still open, and where each update came from.
LA28 lists flag football as a new Olympic sport with six-team tournaments for women and men. The official LA28 sport page is the format anchor. The schedule can still move, so every date below carries its source.
Want the mechanics rather than the headlines? Read the LA28 qualification explainer.
First preliminaries
July 15, 2028
Exposition Park Stadium in Los Angeles, subject to the published schedule.
Medal games
July 21–22, 2028
Men's medals are scheduled for July 21; women's medals for July 22.
Format: LA28 · Schedule: IFAF, July 14, 2026
Qualification tracker
Places already earned
These are national-team places, not named athlete selections. The Olympic rosters will come later.
Women's field
- United StatesHost place
- Canada2026 IFAF World Championship
- Mexico2026 IFAF World Championship
Men's field
- United StatesHost place
- Italy2026 IFAF World Championship
- Canada2026 IFAF World Championship
Source: IFAF, August 16, 2026
The road from here
Q-Series, then Los Angeles
Ten teams per gender enter the Q-Series after the 2027 continental competitions. Two places per gender are awarded in Montreal; the last place per gender is decided in Orlando.
See every stage and dateMontreal
June 1–4, 2028
Two Olympic places per gender.
Orlando
June 8–11, 2028
The final Olympic place per gender.
Tokyo + Shanghai
Other Q-Series hosts
Flag football features at Montreal and Orlando, the final two stops, not these events.
Düsseldorf
2026 Worlds
Canada won the women's final; the United States won the men's final.
Sources: IFAF Q-Series venues · IOC Q-Series host cities
Read the reporting trail
We keep the Olympic updates in the same dated feed as college, pro and state news. See all sourced news or read USA Football's Worlds recap.