High school · 2025–26 season

Girls' high school flag football state champions, 2025–26

Updated November 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Girls' flag football is now one of the 10 most popular high school sports for girls in the US: 102,360 played in 2025–26, up 48.7% in a year, at 3,990 schools. These are the state finals of the 2025–26 season we could confirm from the state associations and local press.

Players 2025–26

102,360

Growth in a year

+48.7%

Schools

3,990

States (by 2026–27)

37

Results

What stood out

• Florida (finals May 16, 2026, at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' AdventHealth Training Center): Lennard won its first state title; Seminole Ridge repeated in 3A; Robinson won its 10th straight Florida title. The 2A score comes from a single source, and we couldn't find the 1A final result (Somerset Canyons vs Miami Edison).
• Georgia (December 15–17, 2025): five girls' flag champions were crowned at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, alongside the tackle football finals.
• Alabama (December 3, 2025, Protective Stadium, Birmingham): Moody won its first title; Central-Phenix City won its third in a row. The AHSAA headline says 28–17, but its article and scoreboard say 27–18.
• New York (June 6–7, 2026, Cortland): the third NYSPHSAA girls' flag championships. We couldn't find the final scores.
• California: JSerra finished 28–0 by beating defending champion Orange Lutheran 25–20 in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 final on November 8, 2025. The 2026 final is Oxnard vs Palos Verdes on November 7, 2026. There is no CIF statewide final yet.

Why it matters

Five years ago, NFHS counted about 15,700 girls in high school flag football. Now it's over 100,000, and 37 states will sanction it or run pilot programs by 2026–27. The players in these finals are the next college and Olympic generation.

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