Come and celebrate St. Patricks day with the Columbus Cats! We will be there all day getting amongst the community. We’d love to see you!

To begin our 2026 season we are holding an indoor session that serves as recruitment and training. If you’re new, come down and join in. No experience needed! Everyone is welcome. Sports Ohio in Dublin are gracious enough to let us use their space. You will need to sign a waiver ahead of time (it’s a requirement from the venue). We will follow up this clinic with a social at Rusty Bucket in Dublin to further get to know everyone who comes out.

Details:

Address: 6400 Dublin Park Drive.

Indoor Clinic Time: 10:00am-12:00pm (please get there early if possible)

Socials at Rusty Bucket: 12:00pm - 1:00pm

No cleats, only turf shoes. This includes any type of sneaker. No open toe shoes. No tackling.

To follow our first clinic, to begin our 2026 season we are holding another indoor session that serves as recruitment and training. If you’re new, come down and join in. No experience needed! Everyone is welcome. Sports Ohio in Dublin are gracious enough to let us use their space. You will need to sign a waiver ahead of time (it’s a requirement from the venue). We will follow up this clinic with a social at Rusty Bucket in Dublin to further get to know everyone who comes out.

Details:

Address: 6400 Dublin Park Drive.

Indoor Clinic Time: 10:00am-12:00pm (please get there early if possible)

Socials at Rusty Bucket: 12:00pm - 1:00pm

No cleats, only turf shoes. This includes any type of sneaker. No open toe shoes. No tackling.

Our OHAFL Metro League will be kicking off this season in Cincinnati. This match falls on the date of Anzac Day (An Australian Holiday) therefore there will be some form of celebration for that, concluding the game. OHAFL (which is separate from the USAFL official games) is a great way for new people who are interested in the sport to come and check out. It is a way in which we promote USAFL and AFL as a general sport within Ohio. These matches are more or less “local” matches and tend to be lower intensity. If you are interested in participating this is a great way to begin. These games do count towards Nationals.

Following preparations from the pre season, this is the first of three rounds of the OHAFL competition, which was created in 2025 to grow the game in the Buckeye State.

Teams include:

Columbus Cats

Cleveland Cannons

Cincinatti Docker

and the University of Cincinnati Bearcats.

Field Location will be posted soon.

For our FIRST official game of the season, Chicago will be traveling down to Cats home territory. We always look forward to playing Chicago. We will be looking for revenge after the swans took the chocolates in the day 2 matchup at Nationals in 2025. The Cats and the Swans split the 2025 2-2, with each side winning at home and the Cats taking the MidWest Cup in 2025, (which we hope to retain this year). That will make it even more important for the Cats to come out firing for the 2026 opener.

More Details to come!

Our OHAFL Metro League will be continuing with round 2 at home in Columbus. OHAFL (which is separate from the USAFL official games) is a great way for new people who are interested in the sport to come and check out. It is a way in which we promote USAFL and AFL as a general sport within Ohio. These matches are more or less “local” matches and tend to be lower intensity. If you are interested in participating this is a great way to begin. These games DO count towards Nationals.

We intend to host afters as well. All are welcome.

Field Location will be posted soon.

We will be seeking to defend the MidWest Cup trophy against the likely field of Cincinnati, Chicago and Nashville in Indianapolis with members of the Indianapolis Giants and the Cleveland Cannons potentially adding manpower to some of the participating clubs.

Full details to be determined and released at a later date.

The first away USAFL friendly will be at the DC Eagles. As the DC Eagles women’s side has had a continuous presence in the league, the Cats will be hoping to get the clubs existing members some expanded game action.

June will close the final leg of the OHAFL competition in Cleveland. The mid-season USAFL Central/Eastern Super Regionals near Minneapolis-St Paul (Woodbury), Minnesota will take place on July 11th, with the Columbus Cats’ level of participation to be determined. However, regardless of whether the full team travels, those that make the trip will get a near-Nationals level playing experience.

In honor of an important late member of the Chicago Swans who passed in 2022, comes the Hendrie Cup. In 2025, the Cats played a friendly at the Swans and, in 2024, the Nashville Kangaroos also played in a friendly at the Swans in honor of Anthony Hendrie. Thus, it is quite likely that the Kangaroos will also be at the event in addition to the Cats and the Swans, as well as other nearby clubs such as the Minnesota Freeze or members of the Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati Clubs.