United Football Players Association

The United Football Players Association, or U.F.P.A., is a nonprofit organization representing American professional football players outside of the National Football League and Canadian Football League. The UFPA is led by presidents Kenneth Farrow II and Nick Temple and Board Executives Ryan Cave and Don Povia.

Founded in 2020, after the XFL bankruptcy, to become a "collective voice for professional players in potential leagues who are not covered by contracts like those in the National Football League Players Association or the Canadian Football League Players' Association and in order to avoid more negative situations similar to those that followed the bankruptcies of the XFL and Alliance of American Football".

The UFPA was not, at the time of its launch, a legal union. Instead, it was billed as an advisory organization that is meant to advise players and advocate leagues on behalf of players, especially in the realms of pay scales, schedules, safety protocols and legal concerns. In 2022 the union announced its affiliation with the United Steelworkers in order to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the United States Football League. The CBA between the league and the players was signed on January 9, 2023. After a contentious falling out with the USW in 2024, the UFPA became a legal union when the United Football League players ratified the UFPA to serve as their union in November of that year.