IFL Lands Streaming Deals With FanDuel and Yahoo!Sports Ahead of 2026 Season

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When the Fishers Freight were announced as a new franchise joining the Indoor Football League (IFL) for the 2025 season, I wanted to learn more about the league—its rules, its style of play, and how fans followed the action. In 2024, every IFL game was available for free on YouTube, giving anyone with an Internet connection easy access and significantly boosting the league’s visibility.

For 2025, the league shifted its media strategy. Partnering with a San Diego tech firm, the IFL launched the subscription-based IFL Network. While putting games behind a paywall reduced the league’s casual reach, it also added value to its content. By April of last year, the league announced it had attracted 15,000 subscribers—a solid start for a brand-new platform.

Before the Freight’s inaugural season, I interviewed IFL Commissioner Todd Tryon, who emphasized the league’s long-term objective: securing broadcast and streaming contracts to elevate the IFL’s national profile. Two recent announcements show how the league plans to expand its television presence beginning in 2026.

On November 20, the IFL and FanDuel revealed a major deal to stream 60 games on the FanDuel streaming service next season, including a weekly Sunday night matchup. FanDuel will also carry the league’s championship game and the Western Conference title game.

That left 59 additional games to be placed elsewhere. On December 9, the IFL announced a second partnership—this time with Yahoo!Sports. The league will produce those remaining games for distribution on the new Yahoo!Sports streaming network, which will also broadcast the Eastern Conference Championship.

Yahoo!Sports is a relatively new streaming platform available on numerous services, including Amazon Fire TV, Fubo, LG Channels, Plex, Prime Video, Sling Freestream, and The Roku Channel.

A full game-by-game broadcast schedule has not yet been released, but the league has time before the 2026 season kicks off in March. The Fishers Freight open their season at home on Saturday, March 14, against the Quad City Steamwheelers.