Collection: Official AF1 On Field Collection

The AF1 On Field Collection — Sideline-Spec Arena Football One Gear

The Official Store of Arena Football One. On-Field Spec, Not Fan-Tier. Performance Tees $49.99. On Field Hoodies $79.99. Eight AF1 Franchises. Tees S–4XL, Hoodies S–2XL.

This is the narrow one. Royal Retros' AF1 On Field Collection is not the fan shop — that lives in AF1 League Gear. This is the sideline line: 18 active pieces built to the specification of Arena Football One's on-field apparel program, in the same colorways the league's athletes, coaches and staff wear for team activities. Eight on-field performance tees at $49.99 flat, one for each of the eight AF1 franchises represented. Nine on-field hoodies at $79.99 flat — eight team pieces plus the league-branded AF1 On Field Hoodie. And the AF1 Backpack at $79.99, an officially licensed team-travel bag. Three price points, no discount tiers, no clearance rack. Tees run Small through 4XL; hoodies run Small through 2XL. Royal Retros is the official store of Arena Football One, and every piece on this page is officially licensed. If you want the shirt the sideline is actually wearing rather than a graphic printed for the merch table, this is the page.

What You Can Shop in the AF1 On Field Collection

AF1 On Field Performance Tees — Eight tees, $49.99 flat, one for each AF1 franchise in the line: Albany Firebirds, Beaumont Renegades, Kentucky Barrels, Michigan Arsenal, Minnesota Monsters, Nashville Kats, Oceanside Bombers and Washington Wolfpack. Moisture-wicking performance knit rather than cotton jersey, cut as athletic wear rather than as a boxy fan tee, and finished in a single disciplined colorway: Castlerock with white. Sizes S–4XL. The price sits above a standard graphic tee for the obvious reason — this is not a standard graphic tee. It is the shirt spec, and it behaves like one: it moves moisture, it holds shape through a wash cycle, and it does not go translucent in a hot arena in June.

AF1 On Field Hoodies — Nine hoodies, $79.99 flat. Eight are team pieces, one for each franchise above; the ninth is the league-branded AF1 On Field Hoodie, which carries the Arena Football One mark instead of a club identity. All nine are midweight performance fleece in Castlerock Grey Light Heather with white, sized S–2XL. This is the single most-worn silhouette in professional indoor football: an arena floor in April is cold, the concourse behind it is colder, and the hooded pullover is what everyone in the league lives in from load-in to kickoff. Compare the build against our fan-tier pullovers in the hoodies collection, or browse sweatshirts for crewnecks and quarter-zips.

The AF1 Backpack — $79.99, in Black, Midnight Navy or Castlerock. The one non-apparel item in the collection and the most spec-heavy thing on the page: an officially licensed bag built on an Under Armour chassis, with the LEVELED strap system for even weight distribution, a 93% polyester and 7% nylon UA Storm shell that is highly water- and stain-resistant, a 16-inch laptop sleeve and a 32 oz bottle pocket. Full measured dimensions are in the FAQ below. It is a team-travel bag, which is a specific category — big enough for a full game-day kit, structured enough to sit upright in a locker room, and finished to survive a bus bay.

The colorway discipline — Everything in the apparel line is one color. Not one color per team; one color, full stop. Castlerock for the tees, Castlerock Grey Light Heather for the hoodies, team identity carried by the mark rather than the base fabric. That is a deliberate on-field convention, not a stock shortage: sideline programs are built around a neutral base so an entire league can be outfitted from one production run and still look coherent on a broadcast. If you have been wondering why the team hoodie is not in team colors, that is the answer — it is not supposed to be.

Sizes — Tees run S–4XL. Hoodies run S–2XL. We state that plainly because the sizing here genuinely differs from the rest of the Royal Retros catalog, where S–5XL is the norm: on-field product is produced against the league's program sizing rather than our own. No big & tall upcharge on anything in the range that exists. If you need 5XL, our fan-tier tees in AF1 League Gear go further up the scale.

What is not in this collection — Three honest notes, because this page used to advertise things it does not carry. There are no performance polos here; the AF1 and AF1-team polos are $54.99 and live in the Royal Retros activewear collection and in each team's own shop. There are no fleece shorts; those are $39.99 and sit inside the individual team collections. And there are no jerseys — the customizable AF1 throwback jerseys are $84.99 and live in the team collections, where the name-and-number option appears on the listing.

Shop AF1 On Field Gear by Team

Eight AF1 franchises are represented, and every one gets the same two pieces: the $49.99 performance tee and the $79.99 hoodie.

Nashville Kats — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 33 active products across the full team shop. The 2026 Arena Crown champions. The Kats went 11–1, closed the regular season on a nine-game winning streak, took the No. 1 seed, and beat Albany 59–53 on August 9, 2026 to win the title. The on-field pieces are the program layer the club wore through that run rather than the commemorative print produced afterwards — a distinction that matters a great deal to the buyers it matters to. The full Nashville Kats collection carries the complete line including the championship product.

Albany Firebirds — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 32 active products across the team shop. The defending champions, and the club that came within a goal-line stop of back-to-back titles: undefeated inaugural champions in 2025, beaten by six in the 2026 Arena Crown. Albany is also the league's administrative home, and the city the on-field apparel partnership was announced from. Full line at the Albany Firebirds collection.

Washington Wolfpack — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 23 active products across the team shop. Everett's team, playing out of Angel of the Winds Arena, and one of the eight founding franchises that walked out of the 2024 Arena Football League to build Arena Football One. The Wolfpack have been in every version of this league since the beginning, which makes their on-field gear the closest thing AF1 has to continuous institutional kit. Full line at the Washington Wolfpack collection.

Beaumont Renegades — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 20 active products across the team shop. Southeast Texas football, in a part of the country where the sport is not a hobby. Beaumont is one of the AF1 brands Royal Retros builds for most directly, which is why the team shop runs deeper than the raw market size would suggest. Full line at the Beaumont Renegades collection.

Kentucky Barrels — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 24 active products across the team shop. Northern Kentucky's expansion club, which kicked off its inaugural season in April 2026 and reached the postseason in year one. The bourbon-barrel identity is the strongest new logo package in the league and one of the few marks on this page that actively gains from a muted Castlerock base rather than merely surviving it. Full line at the Kentucky Barrels collection.

Michigan Arsenal — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 24 active products across the team shop. A 2026 expansion franchise that brought arena football back to Michigan and made the playoffs in its first year of existence. Expansion-season on-field gear is its own collecting category: there is exactly one inaugural run, and this is it. Full line at the Michigan Arsenal collection.

Minnesota Monsters — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 23 active products across the team shop. The Monsters arrived in AF1 for 2026 already holding a trophy: as the Duluth Harbor Monsters they won The Arena League title in 2025 before rebranding and moving up. Their first AF1 on-field kit is therefore also their first kit under the current name. Full line at the Minnesota Monsters collection.

Oceanside Bombers — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 19 active products across the team shop. The most interesting piece on the page from a collecting standpoint, and it is not close. The Oceanside franchise was acquired mid-2026 by local business leaders Alberto and Margaret Gean and rebranded on July 13, 2026 as the Oceanside Stealth, with new colors, logos and uniforms announced. That makes the Bombers-marked on-field tee and hoodie a closed run — a single-identity, single-season piece of an AF1 club that no longer wears that name. Full line at the Oceanside Bombers collection.

Two on-field pieces from a ninth franchise, Oregon Lightning, were produced in this run and are no longer available; they are not counted anywhere in this page's numbers. If you want everything AF1 in one place, the full AF1 collection runs to 322 products.

Why Royal Retros for AF1 On Field Gear

• The official store of Arena Football One. Royal Retros is AF1's official store, and every AF1 team is licensed — league-branded and team-branded product alike. This is the real thing, not a workaround.
• On-field spec, not fan-tier print. This collection exists specifically to separate the sideline program from the merch table. Performance knit, performance fleece, program colorways, program sizing.
• Eight franchises, complete coverage. Every team in the line gets both pieces. No club is represented by a single orphaned SKU.
• Flat, honest pricing. $49.99 for every tee. $79.99 for every hoodie. $79.99 for the backpack. Three numbers, no championship premium, no team-by-team price variation because one club had a better season.
• Accurate sizing information, stated up front. Tees S–4XL, hoodies S–2XL. We would rather tell you the range is narrower here than let you find out at checkout.
• Real spec detail on the bag. UA Storm shell, LEVELED strap system, 16-inch laptop sleeve, 32 oz bottle pocket, measured dimensions. Not "roomy and durable."
• Arena football history as well as arena football present. Royal Retros carries 75 Arena Football League heritage pieces spanning 1987–2019 and an af2 collection alongside the current league. Nobody else covers the whole timeline.
• The rest of the league, one click away. AF1 League Gear for the fan-tier and team line, AF1 Postseason for the 30-piece playoff run, Activewear for the performance polos.

Quick Buying FAQ

Is AF1 gear from Royal Retros officially licensed?

Yes. Royal Retros is the official store of Arena Football One, and every AF1 team's product is officially licensed.

What does "on field" actually mean on this page?

It means the gear is built to the specification of Arena Football One's on-field apparel program rather than to fan-tier retail spec — performance knit and fleece instead of cotton jersey, program colorways instead of team colors, program sizing instead of our usual retail size run. AF1's official apparel partnership with Game One and Under Armour, effective January 1, 2026, outfits the league's athletes, coaches and staff in uniforms, performance wear and sideline apparel. This collection is the retail expression of that program, not a claim that any individual garment came off a player's back.

What sizes does AF1 On Field gear come in?

Performance tees run Small through 4XL. On Field hoodies run Small through 2XL. This is narrower than the S–5XL range you will find across most of the Royal Retros catalog, because on-field product follows the league program's size run rather than ours. There is no big & tall upcharge on any size we carry. If you need larger, the fan-tier tees in AF1 League Gear extend further. Each product page carries its own size chart.

How does an on-field cut fit compared with a replica or fan-tier tee?

Closer to the body. This is the oldest point of confusion in sports apparel and it applies here exactly as it applies to a baseball jersey. A replica or fan-tier garment is cut generously, because it is designed to be bought by someone who wants it comfortable and forgiving. An authentic or on-field garment is cut to athletic proportions, because it is designed to be worn by someone about to move in it. In practice: if you take a Large in a soft cotton graphic tee and want that same relaxed drape, take an XL here. If you want it to sit the way it sits on the sideline, take your true size. The hoodies are more forgiving than the tees, but the same principle holds.

What are the on-field tees and hoodies made from?

The performance tees are a moisture-wicking synthetic performance knit, engineered to move sweat off the skin and dry fast, rather than the pre-shrunk cotton and cotton-blend jersey used on our fan-tier graphic tees. The hoodies are a midweight performance fleece pullover. The AF1 Backpack is 93% polyester and 7% nylon in UA Storm water-resistant and stain-resistant fabric. Each product page carries the specific fabric callout for that item.

Can I add a name and number to AF1 On Field gear?

No — and that is a function of what this line is. On-field performance pieces are program garments with fixed league or club marks; there is no name-and-number layer in the spec. If you want a personalized piece, the customizable AF1 throwback jerseys are $84.99 and live inside the individual team collections — Nashville Kats, Albany Firebirds, Washington Wolfpack and the rest — where the custom option appears directly on the eligible listing. Custom items are made to order and final sale.

Why is there only one colorway?

Because that is how sideline programs are built. A single neutral base — Castlerock on the tees, Castlerock Grey Light Heather on the hoodies — lets an entire league be outfitted from one production run while staying visually coherent on broadcast. Team identity is carried by the mark, not the fabric. The AF1 Backpack is the exception, offered in Black, Midnight Navy and Castlerock, because bags are not part of the on-camera uniform picture.

What exactly do I get with the AF1 Backpack?

An officially licensed team-travel backpack at $79.99. Under Armour LEVELED strap system for even weight distribution, 93% polyester and 7% nylon UA Storm shell that is highly water- and stain-resistant, external dimensions of 20.1 inches high by 12.6 inches wide by 6.6 inches deep, a soft-lined laptop pocket that fits a 16-inch machine, a side water bottle pocket sized for a 32 oz bottle, and secure zip front pockets. Available in Black, Midnight Navy and Castlerock.

How fast does AF1 On Field gear ship, and what is the return policy?

Everything here is a stocked item — no made-to-order pieces on this page — so orders ship within 3–5 business days. Standard returns apply, handled through /pages/returns. Because nothing here is personalized, nothing here is final sale.

Will the 2026 on-field pieces be restocked?

Program apparel is produced against a season, not a continuous retail forecast. The league-branded AF1 On Field Hoodie and the AF1 Backpack are the most likely to carry forward. Club-marked pieces are tied to the club's identity in that season — which is precisely why the Oceanside Bombers pieces are now a closed run. When a size sells through on a club-marked on-field item, assume it is gone rather than reordered.

What Makes an Arena Football On-Field Uniform Different

Every uniform is a solution to a problem. Outdoor American football's kit is a solution to weather, distance and a hundred-yard field. Arena football's kit is a solution to something else entirely: a hockey rink with walls, eight men a side, no way out of bounds, and a building that has already been heated for a crowd before anyone starts running.

The field is half the size, and the consequences run all the way down to the fabric. An arena football field is 50 yards long and roughly 28 yards wide — about the width of an NBA court — with 8-yard end zones instead of the outdoor game's 10. That is a playing surface less than a quarter the area of an NFL field. Everything happens closer together and faster. The physical demand is not the sustained aerobic grind of the outdoor game; it is repeated maximal effort in a compressed space, over and over, for four quarters. Kit built for that has to move moisture aggressively and it has to not chafe, because there is no down where a player is jogging.

The walls are in play, and there is no such thing as stepping out of bounds. Padded boards run the length of the field where sidelines would be. Receivers work off them, defenders pin against them, and a player who wants to stop the clock or avoid a hit cannot simply run out — the option does not exist. This is the origin of Arena Football One's slogan, No Sidelines, No Limits, and it is also the single biggest difference in how gear wears out. Arena football abrades. Shoulders, hips and elbows take contact with a padded vertical surface in a way no outdoor code produces, and anything worn over the shoulder pads gets scuffed rather than merely dirtied.

Rebound nets flank each goalpost, standing roughly 30 feet high and 20 feet wide. A forward pass that hits the net stays live, and a receiver who catches it before it touches the ground or the wall keeps the play alive. It produces the sport's signature highlight, the carom touchdown, and it is one of the reasons arena football never reads as a scaled-down version of anything.

The padding is the other half of the equipment story. The boards themselves are padded, the goalpost uprights are padded, and players still wear the full shoulder-and-hip complement despite the shorter field, because contact in a confined space arrives from angles the outdoor game rarely produces. That is why the sideline layer over the top has to be a thin, fast-drying shell rather than a bulky one — there is already a great deal of foam between a player and the world.

Ironman football is the cultural signature. Historically most arena players had to be capable of playing both offense and defense, with only designated specialists such as kickers exempt. The requirement has been loosened and tightened across the sport's history, but the shadow it casts over conditioning is permanent. An arena footballer is fast enough to cover, strong enough to block, and conditioned to do both without leaving the floor. Apparel sized for that body is not apparel sized for a fan on a sofa.

And then there is the building. Arena football is played indoors, in venues designed for hockey and basketball, with the season running through spring into high summer. No wind, no rain, and no cold once the doors open and four thousand people file in — just a room that gets warmer and more humid as the night goes on, under lighting rigs that add real heat, with no evaporative relief at all. Outdoor football gear is engineered against exposure. Indoor football gear is engineered against a sauna. That is why the arena game's sideline layer is a performance knit rather than a heavy cotton tee.

The Uniform Through Arena Football's Eras

The look of arena football has changed more than the rules have, and the through-line is worth knowing if you are collecting.

The founding era, 1987 to the mid-1990s. The Arena Football League launched in 1987 without any of the apparel infrastructure a modern league takes for granted. Early kit was functional and heavily sourced from existing football supply — the same shells, the same mesh, the same numbering conventions as college and semi-pro outdoor football, adapted rather than designed. The sideline layer barely existed as a category. Those first-generation franchises live on Royal Retros in the Arena Football League heritage collection, which spans 75 products across the league's entire 1987–2019 run.

The maximalist era, mid-1990s to mid-2000s. This is the period arena football is remembered for aesthetically, and it is why the heritage market for it is so strong. Team identities in this window were designed to be legible from the cheap seats of a hockey arena under bad lighting, which pushed everything toward saturation: electric colorways, heavy outlines, aggressive angular marks, wordmarks that ran the full chest. VooDoo. Fighting Pike. Piranhas. Rage. Terror. Thunderbears. No committee would approve those palettes today, and that is exactly the appeal — uniform design doing something outdoor football's more conservative visual culture would not permit.

The af2 era, 2000 to 2009. Arena football's developmental league ran the same rules in smaller cities and smaller buildings, with the ArenaCup as its championship. Its kit program was correspondingly leaner: simpler marks, fewer colors per team, more single-supplier consistency across the league than the parent circuit ever managed. Royal Retros carries an af2 collection covering that window.

The second AFL, 2010 to 2019. The reconstituted league professionalized its apparel operation considerably, and this is roughly when the modern three-tier structure — on-field, sideline, fan-tier — arrived properly in arena football. Sideline apparel became a real product line rather than an afterthought. That era ended with the league's Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2019.

The 2024 interruption, and what came after. The revived Arena Football League that launched in April 2024 with sixteen teams lost five of them within three weeks and three more before the regular season ended. When clubs are folding mid-season, kit consistency is the first thing to go; it is genuinely difficult to talk about a 2024 league-wide on-field spec, because in practice there was not one. The eight surviving franchises left on September 6, 2024 and built Arena Football One. And then, for 2026, AF1 did the thing the 2024 league never managed and the 1987 league could not have afforded: it put a single, unified, league-wide apparel program in place before the season started.

AF1's Uniform Program — Game One and Under Armour

On November 26, 2025, Arena Football One announced a multi-year partnership with Game One and Under Armour as the league's Official Apparel Providers, effective January 1, 2026.

The terms of the announcement matter more than the headline. Game One outfits all AF1 athletes, coaches and staff in Under Armour uniforms, performance wear and sideline apparel, for all team activities. That is not a jersey deal. It is the entire vertical: what players wear on the floor, what they wear warming up, what the coaching staff wears on the sideline, what the equipment and operations people wear at load-in. One program, one supplier, one spec, across every club in the league.

For a league in its second season, that is an unusually mature piece of infrastructure. The agreement was led on AF1's side by long-time industry executive Jerry Kurz, by Mike Kwarta of the AF1 Management Group, and by league staff members Gary Compton and Christie McEwen. Commissioner Jeff Fisher — the former NFL head coach who came into arena football as interim commissioner during the 2024 collapse and stayed — framed it as structural rather than merchandising: "this agreement with Game One and Under Armour is more than a uniform deal, it is a long-term investment in the future of Arena Football One." Pat Weber, President and CEO of Game One, called it "a partnership built on performance and passion." The timing was neat on Under Armour's side too: 2026 is the brand's thirtieth anniversary year.

And the release closed with the sentence that is, functionally, the reason this collection exists. Fans, it said, would soon see Under Armour merchandise available online and through team retail outlets, giving them more ways to support their teams with premium performance product.

This page is that sentence, made into a shopping page. The AF1 On Field Collection is the retail side of the league's on-field apparel program — the same performance-knit tee spec, the same fleece pullover spec, the same neutral program colorways, the same officially licensed team-travel bag, made available to the people in the stands rather than only to the people on the floor. That is a genuinely rare thing in alternative football. Spring and indoor leagues have historically been unable to fund a unified apparel program at all, let alone open it to retail in their first full year. AF1 did both, in the same season it crowned a champion in front of a sell-out crowd.

Authentic Versus Replica — A Short History of On-Field Spec

The distinction this collection is built on is more than a century old, and it is the single most misunderstood idea in the sports apparel business.

In the beginning there was no distinction at all. For the first several decades of American professional sport, the equipment manufacturers who supplied teams — the athletic goods houses that made the balls, the gloves, the pads and the shoes — also made the uniforms, and they made them in exactly one grade: the grade a professional wore. Uniforms were equipment, ordered by the dozen, sized to a roster, recycled between seasons. There was no consumer version because there was no consumer market.

The fan market arrived, and it arrived cheap. The mid-century expansion of televised sport created a mass audience with a previously unserviceable desire: to wear the thing the players wear. The manufacturers' answer was not to sell the professional garment. It was to build a second, cheaper garment that looked like it from ten feet away — lighter fabric, simpler construction, printed rather than sewn graphics, cut generously so a single size would fit a wide range of bodies. That garment was the replica, and it is the ancestor of essentially every piece of licensed sports apparel sold today.

Then the tiers formalized. By the late twentieth century the major American leagues had settled into a structure that persists in every sport, including this one. At the top sits the authentic or on-field tier: the same specification as the professional garment, in the same materials, with the same construction and the same cut. Below it sits the replica tier — same look, meaningfully different build, lower price, forgiving fit. Below or beside that sits the broad fan-tier category: the graphic tees, the novelty prints, the commemoratives, the things that carry a team's identity without pretending to be a team's kit. The licensed apparel boom of the 1990s turned that hierarchy into something people cared about socially as well as functionally, and that is when the phrase "on-field" started doing real commercial work. It has never stopped.

The sizing divergence is the part everybody trips over. Authentic and on-field garments are sized to athletes. Replica and fan-tier garments are sized to a retail bell curve. The gap between the two is not consistent and it is not always documented, which is why the same nominal size can fit dramatically differently across the tiers of a single team's own product line. The rule of thumb that has held for thirty years is simple: if you are buying authentic and you want a relaxed fit, go up a size. It holds here.

The performance era changed the materials but not the logic. From the 1990s onward, on-field apparel across every sport moved decisively from cotton and wool to engineered synthetics — moisture management, four-way stretch, antimicrobial finishes, bonded seams. Replica and fan-tier product followed at a distance and mostly still sits in cotton blends. So today the tier difference is not only cut and construction. It is fiber. A performance-knit tee and a cotton graphic tee are two different objects that happen to share a silhouette.

And this is why on-field product holds value. Replica and fan-tier product is manufactured to demand and reprinted freely. On-field product is manufactured against a program, in a season, in the sizes a program needs, and when the program changes it stops. A club rebrands. A league changes suppliers. A colorway is retired. There is no reissue, because the thing being reissued no longer exists as a spec. That is why the Oceanside Bombers pieces on this page became a closed run the moment the franchise rebranded in July 2026, and why arena football's older on-field product from the Arena Football League and af2 eras is now the most sought-after material in the category.

How to Tell On-Field Spec From Fan-Tier

• Check the fiber first. On-field and sideline apparel is almost always an engineered synthetic performance knit or fleece. If the tag says 100% cotton, it is fan-tier — which is fine, but it is not the same thing.
• Look at the colorway. Program apparel is built around neutral bases so a whole league can be outfitted coherently. A team piece in muted gray with the mark carried by the logo is a program signal; a team piece in the club's brightest primary is usually retail.
• Look at the size run. Program sizing follows roster needs, not a retail curve. A narrower range — stopping at 2XL or 4XL rather than running to 5XL.
• Check whether the item is customizable. On-field program pieces carry fixed league or club marks. If a listing offers name-and-number personalization, it is a retail jersey product, not a sideline piece.
• Check who is selling it, and at what price. Program apparel reaches retail through the league's official channel or not at all — Royal Retros is the official store of Arena Football One, which is why this line is here. And a meaningful price gap against the same team's printed cotton tee is the material difference showing up honestly.
• Royal Retros standard: every product in this collection is listed with its actual fabric content, actual measured spec where we have it, and the actual size run — not the size run we wish it had.

The 2026 AF1 Season — What This Gear Was Worn Through

The on-field program's first season was also the best season Arena Football One has had, which is a useful coincidence for anyone buying a piece of it. The league expanded for 2026 and reinstated a scoring rule it had gone without in its inaugural year: "the one," historically the rouge or the single, awarding the kicking team a point when the receiving team is tackled without getting the ball out of its own end zone — a rule that only makes sense in a sport where field position is measured in feet.

The Nashville Kats went 11–1, won their final nine, and took the No. 1 seed. In the 2026 Arena Crown — Arena Football One's championship game — they beat the defending champion Albany Firebirds 59–53 before a sell-out crowd at F&M Bank Arena on August 9, 2026. It came down to a goal-line stop on the final play. Albany, undefeated champions of the inaugural 2025 season, lost the title by six points and one tackle.

Expansion clubs Kentucky and Michigan both reached the postseason in their first year of existence. Minnesota arrived from The Arena League holding a 2025 title under a previous identity. Oceanside changed hands and changed names in the middle of it all. Eight clubs, one apparel program, one championship, and one closed production run of gear that will never be made in this exact configuration again. If you want the commemorative side of that season — the championship tee, the Chase The Crown series, the playoff trucker hats — it is in AF1 League Gear and the AF1 Postseason collection. If you want what the sideline was actually wearing while it happened, you are already on the right page.

More Frequently Asked Questions About AF1 and On-Field Apparel

What does AF1 stand for?

AF1 is Arena Football One — the indoor football league founded on September 6, 2024, when eight surviving franchises left the Arena Football League to form a new organization. AF1 played its inaugural season in 2025 and expanded for 2026.

Is AF1 the same as the AFL?

No, and on Royal Retros they are deliberately separate collections. AF1 is Arena Football One, the current league, founded 2024, playing now. "AFL" on this store means the Arena Football League — the historic indoor league that ran 1987–2008 and again 2010–2019 before closing permanently in bankruptcy. The AFL collection is arena football heritage, not any other league that has ever used those three letters. If you are shopping the current league you are already in the right place.

Who supplies AF1's uniforms and sideline apparel?

Game One and Under Armour, under a multi-year partnership announced on November 26, 2025 and effective January 1, 2026. Game One outfits all AF1 athletes, coaches and staff in Under Armour uniforms, performance wear and sideline apparel for all team activities. The agreement was led by Jerry Kurz, Mike Kwarta of the AF1 Management Group, and league staff members Gary Compton and Christie McEwen.

Is this the actual gear the players wear?

This is retail product built to the league's on-field apparel program spec — the same performance construction, the same program colorways, the same officially licensed marks. It is not game-worn, and we would never describe it as such. Game-worn is a different category with a different chain of custody. What this collection offers is the specification, sold honestly, through the league's official store.

Why does an on-field tee cost more than a graphic tee?

Because it is a different garment. An engineered performance knit costs meaningfully more to produce than pre-shrunk cotton jersey. The gap between $49.99 here and $29.99 on a fan-tier AF1 tee is material and construction, not margin.

Why do the hoodies only go to 2XL?

Because program apparel is produced against the league's size run rather than a retail one. It is a genuine limitation of buying program spec and we would rather state it clearly than have you discover it at checkout. Our fan-tier AF1 hoodies in AF1 League Gear extend further up the size scale.

Where are the AF1 performance polos?

In the Royal Retros activewear collection and in each club's own team shop, at $54.99. They carry the "activewear" tag rather than the "on field" tag, so they fall outside this collection's rules. There is a league-branded AF1 Performance Polo as well as team versions for most AF1 clubs.

Where are the AF1 fleece shorts?

Inside the individual team collections, at $39.99. Like the polos, they are not tagged as on-field product and so do not appear on this page.

What is the difference between the AF1 On Field, AF1 League Gear and AF1 Postseason collections?

Three different jobs. AF1 On Field — this page — is the sideline program line: performance tees, hoodies and the team-travel backpack across eight franchises, 18 active pieces. AF1 League Gear is the broad fan shop. AF1 Postseason is the 30-piece 2026 playoff and championship run. The full AF1 collection at 322 products contains all three plus every team shop.

Why did the Oceanside team change its name?

The franchise was acquired by local business leaders Alberto and Margaret Gean and rebranded from the Oceanside Bombers to the Oceanside Stealth on July 13, 2026, mid-season, with new colors, logos and uniforms announced as part of a broader relaunch of the organization. The Oceanside collection on Royal Retros still carries the Bombers identity, which makes the Bombers-marked on-field tee and hoodie a single-season closed run.

What is af2?

af2, or arenafootball2, was the Arena Football League's developmental league — founded in 1999, first played in 2000, run on the same rules in smaller markets, with the ArenaCup as its championship. It was effectively disbanded in September 2009. Royal Retros carries an af2 collection covering that era.

Do you carry gear for other alternative football leagues?

Yes. Beyond arena football, Royal Retros covers the USFL, the XFL and the UFL. Arena football is the indoor branch of that same story — American football's long, stubborn history of leagues that were not the NFL.

Shop AF1 On Field by Team

• Albany Firebirds — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. Undefeated inaugural AF1 champions, 2025. Arena Crown runners-up, 2026. 32 active products in the team shop.
• Beaumont Renegades — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. Southeast Texas AF1 franchise. 20 active products in the team shop.
• Kentucky Barrels — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. Northern Kentucky expansion club, inaugural season 2026, playoff qualifier in year one. 24 active products in the team shop.
• Michigan Arsenal — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 2026 expansion franchise, playoff qualifier in year one. 24 active products in the team shop.
• Minnesota Monsters — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 2025 Arena League champions as the Duluth Harbor Monsters, AF1 from 2026. 23 active products in the team shop.
• Nashville Kats — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. 2026 Arena Crown champions. 11–1, nine straight wins to close the season. 33 active products in the team shop.
• Oceanside Bombers — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. Closed run: the franchise rebranded as the Oceanside Stealth in July 2026. 19 active products in the team shop.
• Washington Wolfpack — On Field Performance Tee $49.99, On Field Hoodie $79.99. Everett, Washington. Founding AF1 franchise. 23 active products in the team shop.

Shop Related AF1 and Football Collections

• AF1 — Full Collection — Every Arena Football One product on Royal Retros. 322 products across the whole league.
• AF1 League Gear — The fan shop. League-branded and team-branded tees, trucker hats, hoodies, quarter-zip, performance polo, satin jacket and tumbler. 30 active products.
• AF1 Postseason — The complete 2026 playoff and championship line, 30 products.
• Royal Retros Activewear — Where the AF1 performance polos live, alongside performance product from across the football catalog. 25 active products.
• Arena Football League (1987–2019) — 75 heritage products from the historic indoor league. The founding franchises, the maximalist 1990s identities and the deep-cut extinct clubs.
• af2 (2000–2009) — The Arena Football League's developmental circuit and the ArenaCup era.
• Royal Retros Hoodies — Pullovers across every league we cover, fan-tier and performance.
• Royal Retros Sweatshirts — Crewnecks, quarter-zips and heavyweight fleece across the full catalog.
• Royal Retros Hats — Trucker hats, snapbacks and fitted caps across every league we cover.
• USFL — The spring league, 1983–85 and the modern revival.
• XFL — Both XFL eras.
• UFL — The current spring league.

The AF1 On Field Collection at Royal Retros — The Official Store of Arena Football One. Sideline-Spec Performance Tees $49.99 & Hoodies $79.99. Eight AF1 Franchises. Tees S–4XL, Hoodies S–2XL.