The Birmingham Stallions are holding a free youth football camp on Wednesday at Legion Field. There’s a flag-football clinic for youngsters in the fifth- through 12th-graders from 2 to 4 p.m. CDT, and a football-skills clinic for seventh- through 12th-graders from 5 to 7 p.m.

Will it be the last thing the Stallions do in Birmingham?

On Tuesday night, UFL News Hub and Pro Football Newsroom reported the United Football League was planning to relocate four of its eight teams, including the Stallions. The other teams slated for relocation, the reports said, were the Houston Roughnecks, Memphis Showboats and Michigan Panthers. The four teams form the United Football League’s USFL Conference.

The UFL reacted to Tuesday night’s reports with a statement: “The league office is in the planning stages for next season and beyond. At this point, we have nothing to report on any unauthorized speculation.”

The reports said the teams could wind up in Columbus, Ohio; Boise, Idaho; Louisville or Lexington, Kentucky; and an unspecified Florida city.

But during an appearance on WJOX-FM’s “Three-Man Front” on Monday, Birmingham coach Skip Holtz addressed rumors about the team’s future and said the Stallions weren’t going anywhere.

“There has not been anything to let me know that it’s on shaky ground,” Holtz said. “I was told when I asked the question, because I hear the rumors just like everybody else, and I just went to the horse’s mouth and was told, ‘Absolutely not. Birmingham’s not going anywhere.’ That’s what I was told, and I feel comfortable with it, and we’re moving forward and business as usual.

“When you look at it, there have been some criticisms, maybe the way some of the markets have drawn and potentially looking to re-establish those maybe in new markets. But everything I have heard, Birmingham is not in that conversation. But I would also say to make sure we’re never in it in the future, let’s continue to grow attendance. Let’s continue to grow it and put people in that stadium, because that’s the excitement and the energy. The more the merrier. The more that are there, the more good time everybody’s to have.

“And I think as these players have built a product on the field that deserves to be one of the most heavily attended programs in the league. And so that’s the thing. I would love to see it continue to grow. The people of Birmingham have been awesome. I loved having the opportunity to live there for two years, but unfortunately now we’re only there on the weekends. I just want to see it continue to grow because the Birmingham Stallion name, I mean, it’s synonymous with spring football. When you look at all the different leagues going all the way back to the ’80s, have had the Birmingham Stallions. And right now for us to have this success that we’ve had – there’ve been four seasons that we played – two in the UFL and two in the USFL – and the Birmingham Stallions are the only team that have been in all four playoffs. And so I think we’ve created a product on the field, I just want to see it continue to grow. But I am looking forward to being back in Birmingham in the 2026 season.”

Birmingham’s average attendance for its six home games, including a playoff contest, for the 2025 season was 9,149. The only teams with lower averages were Memphis at 3,992 and Houston at 5,712. Michigan had an average attendance of 11,681, the third-best in the UFL in 2025.

The United Football League completed its second season in June. The league has had the same eight franchises for both seasons but was born by disbanding eight teams. The USFL and XFL merged their eight-team leagues into a single eight-team league in 2024 to form the United Football League.

The UFL is owned by FOX Sports, RedBird Capital Partners, Dany Garcia and actor/wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

With four seasons, the Stallions have had a longer tenure than any of Birmingham’s spring-football entries. The original USFL also fielded a Birmingham Stallions franchise in 1983, 1984 and 1985. The original Stallions had been preceded in Birmingham by the World Football League’s Americans in 1974 and Vulcans in 1975 and were followed in the Magic City by the World League of American Football’s Fire in 1991 and 1992, Canadian Football League’s Barracudas in 1995, the original XFL’s Thunderbolts in 2001 and the Alliance of American Football’s Iron in 2019.

The Stallions won the USFL championship in 2022 and 2023 and the UFL championship in 2024 before being eliminated in the UFL semifinals in 2025.

In 2022, the USFL played its entire regular-season schedule in Birmingham. In 2023, the USFL moved its teams into four hubs, with Birmingham hosting the Stallions and the New Orleans Breakers.

The UFL centered its spring operation in Arlington, Texas. The teams train and practice there during the week before traveling to home-team cities to play the games.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.