| 2022 Fan Controlled Football season | |
| League: | Fan Controlled Football |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Tv: | Twitch, VENN, DAZN LX, and Peacock |
| No Of Teams: | 8 |
| No Of Games: | 31 |
| Hosts: | Pullman Yards |
| Sport: | Indoor American football |
| Season Champ Name: | Season champions |
| Season Champs: | Bored Ape FC |
| Finals Champ: | Zappers |
| Finals Mvp Name: | Finals MVP |
| Finals Mvp: | Kelly Bryant |
| Finals Runner-Up: | Bored Ape FC |
| Finals: | The People's Championship v2.0 |
| Seasonslistnames: | FCF |
| Prevseason Year: | 2021 |
The 2022 Fan Controlled Football season is the second season of the Fan Controlled Football (FCF), a professional indoor football league. In the 2022 championship game, the Zappers beat the Bored Ape FC to win The People's Championship v2.0.
The FCF's second season, nicknamed "Season v.2.0" by the league, was scheduled to begin in fall 2021[1] but was postponed to Spring 2022 to follow after the NFL's Super Bowl.[2] The season began on April 16, thus putting FCF in direct competition with the 2022 USFL season that launched on the same night.[3] [4]
The league announced they were expanding to eight teams for the 2022 season and announced a new broadcast deal with NBCUniversal subsidiary NBCLX and Peacock to broadcast every game of the 2022 season.[5] [6] In October 2021, the FCF announced the Ballerz Collective and two of the four expansion teams, Team KoD and Team 8oki, later to be given names by the fans.[7] The final two expansion teams were announced on January 12, 2022, Team Gutter Cats, and Team Bored Apes, also later to be given names by the fans. The defending champion Wild Aces reorganized and rebranded as the Shoulda Been Stars following the departure of one of its co-owners.
On January 12, 2022, the FCF announced a $40 million investment—led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital—for spectator-controlled football games.[8] Ahead of the 2022 season, the league began construction on a 1,500-seat arena at Pullman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia.[9]
| Team[10] [11] | Colors | Joined | Owners | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Marshawn Lynch, Todd Gurley, Miro, Marcus Peters, and Renee Montgomery[12] | |||
| Richard Sherman, Quavo, Deestroying, and Adin Ross[13] | ||||
| Trevor May, Dalvin Cook, Bob Menery, and Ronnie 2k[14] | ||||
| 8oki | 2022 | Steve Aoki and 888 Crypto.[15] | ||
| Knights of Degen | Drew Austin, Jack Settleman, Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Cynthia Frelund, Blake Jamieson, Shara Senderoff, Mike O'Day, Jared Augustine, and Jasmine Maetta | |||
| Bored Ape Football Club | Lyndsey Byrnes, beijingdou (Josh Ong), JerseyBorn (Sean Semola), tropoFarmer, ElectionDayMad1 and KingKhah (AJ Khah) | |||
| Kingpins | Jamal Anderson, SPOTTIE WIFI, Dr. Leo DiCatrio (Cory Teer), and ABigThingBadly | |||
| Shoulda Been Stars (originally the Wild Aces) | 2021 | Austin Ekeler, Rachel Lindsay, Druski, and Altered State Machines.[16] |
Before the start of the season, it was announced that Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Owens, age 48, would come out of retirement to play for the Zappers.[17] He would later be traded to the Knights of Degen.[18] On May 20, it was reported that Michael Vick would join him in the league,[19] but he later denied the rumors.[20]
| 2022 Fan Controlled Football standings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | W | L | Pct. | PF | PA | PD | |
| 5 | 2 | 190 | 166 | ||||
| Knights of Degen | 4 | 3 | 256 | 198 | |||
| 4 | 3 | 168 | 144 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | 202 | 224 | ||||
| Glacier Boyz | 3 | 4 | 186 | 180 | |||
| Kingpins | 3 | 4 | 182 | 216 | |||
| 3 | 4 | 166 | 204 | ||||
| Beasts | 2 | 5 | 180 | 198 |
x – Bold indicates playoff participant