Football Coaching Staffs to Wear AFCA Patch on Opening Weekend Games for Ninth Straight Year
August 25, 2025
For a ninth straight year, football coaching staffs will wear American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) patches on their shirts to promote the association and bring awareness to its programs. Over 600 high school, junior college and four-year college football programs are participating and will wear the AFCA patch during games on Labor Day weekend.
“For a ninth straight year, football coaching staffs will wear AFCA patches on Labor Day weekend to help bring awareness of and information about the association to the general public,” AFCA Executive Director Craig Bohl said. “The AFCA has been around for over 100 years. We are a worldwide organization that educates career football coaches and helps promote the football coaching profession.”
Founded in 1922, the AFCA currently has more than 11,000 members around the world ranging from the high school level to the professional ranks. According to its constitution, the AFCA was formed, in part, to “maintain the highest possible standards in football and in the coaching profession” and to “provide a forum for the discussion and study of all matters pertaining to football.”
Some of the early leaders of the AFCA were college football royalty, such as John Heisman and Amos Alonzo Stagg. Major Charles Daly, head coach at Army, organized the first meeting of college football coaches on December 27, 1921, which eventually led to the organization of the AFCA the following year. Daly served as the association’s first president. Virtually all of the great coaches in college football have actively participated in the AFCA. Past presidents include such respected coaches as Alabama’s Bear Bryant, Texas’ Darrell Royal, Yale’s Carmen Cozza and Grambling State’s Eddie Robinson. The 2025 AFCA president is Bobby Hauck, head coach at Montana.
The AFCA has numerous programs that honor coaches and players, or help promote the game and the coaching profession. The AFCA works with USA TODAY Sports to administer the US LBM Coaches Poll, which has a panel of FBS-level coaches who vote on the Top 25 teams in FBS each week during the season. The AFCA’s first Top 25 poll was established in 1950, 15 years after the association started selecting a National Coach of the Year. The association also honors Regional Coaches of the Year and Assistant Coaches of the Year in FBS, FCS, Division II, Division III and the NAIA.
On the player side, the AFCA began selecting an All-America Team in 1945 and now has first and second teams for all five of the four-year collegiate divisions. The association also honors student-athletes for their community service with the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®.
The AFCA will coordinate a multi-platform social media campaign by tagging us (@WeAreAFCA) on X, (weareafca) Instagram and Facebook. For more information on the AFCA and its promotional patch weekend, visit www.afca.com or follow AFCA on social media.
For more information about the AFCA, visit www.AFCA.com. For more interesting articles, check out The Insider and subscribe to our weekly email.
If you are interested in more in-depth articles and videos, please become an AFCA member. You can find out more information about membership and specific member benefits on the AFCA Membership Overview page. If you are ready to join, please fill out the AFCA Membership Application.
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For a ninth straight year, football coaching staffs will wear American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) patches on their shirts to promote the association and bring awareness to its programs. Over 600 high school, junior college and four-year college football programs are participating and will wear the AFCA patch during games on Labor Day weekend.
“For a ninth straight year, football coaching staffs will wear AFCA patches on Labor Day weekend to help bring awareness of and information about the association to the general public,” AFCA Executive Director Craig Bohl said. “The AFCA has been around for over 100 years. We are a worldwide organization that educates career football coaches and helps promote the football coaching profession.”
Founded in 1922, the AFCA currently has more than 11,000 members around the world ranging from the high school level to the professional ranks. According to its constitution, the AFCA was formed, in part, to “maintain the highest possible standards in football and in the coaching profession” and to “provide a forum for the discussion and study of all matters pertaining to football.”
Some of the early leaders of the AFCA were college football royalty, such as John Heisman and Amos Alonzo Stagg. Major Charles Daly, head coach at Army, organized the first meeting of college football coaches on December 27, 1921, which eventually led to the organization of the AFCA the following year. Daly served as the association’s first president. Virtually all of the great coaches in college football have actively participated in the AFCA. Past presidents include such respected coaches as Alabama’s Bear Bryant, Texas’ Darrell Royal, Yale’s Carmen Cozza and Grambling State’s Eddie Robinson. The 2025 AFCA president is Bobby Hauck, head coach at Montana.
The AFCA has numerous programs that honor coaches and players, or help promote the game and the coaching profession. The AFCA works with USA TODAY Sports to administer the US LBM Coaches Poll, which has a panel of FBS-level coaches who vote on the Top 25 teams in FBS each week during the season. The AFCA’s first Top 25 poll was established in 1950, 15 years after the association started selecting a National Coach of the Year. The association also honors Regional Coaches of the Year and Assistant Coaches of the Year in FBS, FCS, Division II, Division III and the NAIA.
On the player side, the AFCA began selecting an All-America Team in 1945 and now has first and second teams for all five of the four-year collegiate divisions. The association also honors student-athletes for their community service with the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®.
The AFCA will coordinate a multi-platform social media campaign by tagging us (@WeAreAFCA) on X, (weareafca) Instagram and Facebook. For more information on the AFCA and its promotional patch weekend, visit www.afca.com or follow AFCA on social media.
For more information about the AFCA, visit www.AFCA.com. For more interesting articles, check out The Insider and subscribe to our weekly email.
If you are interested in more in-depth articles and videos, please become an AFCA member. You can find out more information about membership and specific member benefits on the AFCA Membership Overview page. If you are ready to join, please fill out the AFCA Membership Application.
