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The Los Angeles Wildcats (LA Wildcats) are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California. The team is a franchise of the new XFL founded by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment and plays its home games at the Dignity Health Sports Park, which is also home to the MLS’s LA Galaxy. -
XFL and Wildcats Covid-19 Shutdown
The Wildcats inaugural season was cut short due to the 2019 – 2020 coronavirus pandemic and the XFL officially suspended operations for the remainder of the season on March 20, 2020.
History of the Wildcats
The Los Angeles Wildcats (LA Wildcats) are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The team was founded by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment and is an owned-and-operated member of the new XFL owned by Dwayne Johnson’s Alpha Acquico. The Wildcats play their home games at Dignity Health Sports Park.
Los Angeles joined New York, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, and Washington, D.C. as the league's inaugural cities. Teams have 40-man active rosters and play a 10-week season. Vince McMahon said "the game will feature simplified rules for a faster pace of the game that should be complete in under three hours," and drawn from former college and NFL players.
On May 7, 2019, Winston Moss was announced as the team's head coach.
On August 21, 2019, the team revealed its name, logos, and identity as the Los Angeles Wildcats, alongside the rest of the XFL teams. A secondary logo was released on August 24.
On February 8, 2020, the team played its first game losing to the Houston Roughnecks 37–17 in Houston. Chad Kanoff scored the first touchdown in franchise history with a scramble left for a five-yard score.
Established
2020
City
Los Angeles
League History
2020 - Present / XFL
Team History
2020 - Present / Los Angeles Wildcats
Nickname
Wildcats – The XFL brought back the Los Angeles Wildcats name who was a traveling team in the '20s of the first American Football League that was not based in its nominal home city but in Chicago, Illinois.
Championship
XFL Championships 0
Stadium
2020 - Present / Dignity Health Sports Park
Owner
2020 - Present / Alpha Entertainment, LLC
Coach
2020 - Present / Winston Moss
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Retired Number
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