ArenaBowl XXXI
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| Date | July 28, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Arena | Royal Farms Arena Baltimore, Maryland | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Arvell Nelson, Washington | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 8,183 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Winning coach | Benji McDowell | ||||||||||||||||||
| Losing coach | Omarr Smith | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS Sports Network | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Brent Stover, Sherdrick Bonner and Ari Wolfe | ||||||||||||||||||
ArenaBowl XXXI was the championship game of the 2018 Arena Football League season. The game was broadcast on CBS Sports Network, AFLNow and Twitter. It featured the fourth-seeded Washington Valor and the second-seeded Baltimore Brigade at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore. It was the first ArenaBowl championship for both teams as they were expansion teams in the previous season. Both teams were owned by Ted Leonsis, giving him his second league championship in six weeks following his Washington Capitals team's victory in the NHL's 2018 Stanley Cup Finals. The title sponsor for the game was Bud Light.
The paid attendance was 8,183, the smallest in ArenaBowl history.