Fayetteville Mustangs

Fayetteville Mustangs
Founded	2022
Folded	2023
Based in	Fayetteville, North Carolina; at the Crown Coliseum
Home arena	Crown Coliseum (2023)
League	National Arena League (2023)
Personnel
Head coach	Charles Gunnings
Owners	Dr. Robert Twaddell; Jack Smith

Founded2022

Folded2023

Based inFayetteville, North Carolina
at the Crown Coliseum

Home arenaCrown Coliseum (2023)

The Fayetteville Mustangs were a professional indoor football team based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, playing their home games at Crown Coliseum. The Mustangs began play as members of the National Arena League in 2023.

On August 24, 2022, the National Arena League announced the Fayetteville Mustangs as an expansion franchise for the upcoming 2023 National Arena League season^[1] However, the team withdrew from their inaugural season after playing eight games due to financial difficulties with hopes to return in 2024.^[2]^[3]

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Original schedule
Week	Day	Date	Opponent	Results		Location
Week	Day	Date	Opponent	Score	Record	Location
1	Saturday	April 8	at Orlando Predators	W 68–43	1–0	Amway Center
2	Bye
3	Sunday	April 23	Jacksonville Sharks	L 53–73	1–1	Crown Coliseum
4	Saturday	April 29	at West Texas Warbirds	W 50–18	2–1	Ector County Coliseum
5	Sunday	May 7	San Antonio Gunslingers	L 27–40	2–2	Crown Coliseum
6	Bye
7	Friday	May 19	Carolina Cobras	L 34–72	2–3	Crown Coliseum
8	Saturday	May 27	at Albany Empire	W 49-27	3–3	MVP Arena
9	Saturday	June 3	at Carolina Cobras	W 70–41	4–3	Greensboro Coliseum
10	Saturday	June 10	at Jacksonville Sharks	L 35–63	4–4	VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
11	Bye
12	Saturday	June 24	West Texas Warbirds			Crown Coliseum
13	Saturday	July 1	at Albany Empire			MVP Arena
14	Saturday	June 15	Carolina Cobras			Crown Coliseum
15	Saturday	July 15	Orlando Predators			Crown Coliseum
16	Saturday	July 22	at San Antonio Gunslingers			Freeman Coliseum
17	Saturday	July 29	Albany Empire			Crown Coliseum

v t e National Arena League
Teams	Amarillo Warbirds Colorado Spartans Dallas Bulls Louisiana Rouxgaroux Omaha Beef Pueblo Punishers Salina Liberty Sioux City Bandits Southwest Kansas Storm
Venues	Amarillo Civic Center (Amarillo) Brookshire Grocery Arena (Louisiana) Denver Coliseum (Colorado) Fair Park Coliseum (Dallas) Liberty First Credit Union Arena (Omaha) Southwest Motors Events Center (Pueblo) Tony's Pizza Events Center (Salina) Tyson Events Center (Sioux City) United Wireless Arena (Southwest Kansas)
Former teams	Albany Empire (2021–2023) Beaumont Renegades (2025) Carolina Cobras (2018–2025) Columbus Lions (2017-2022, 2025) Corpus Christi Rage (2017) Dayton Wolfpack (2017) Fayetteville Mustangs (2023) Georgia Firebirds (2017) High Country Grizzlies (2017) Idaho Horsemen (2024–2025) Jacksonville Sharks (2017–2023) Jersey Flight (2020–2021) Lehigh Valley Steelhawks (2017–2018) Maine Mammoths (2018) Massachusetts Pirates (2018–2020) Monterrey Steel (2017) New York Streets (2019) Oklahoma Flying Aces (2024) Orlando Predators (2019–2023) San Antonio Gunslingers (2022–2023) West Virginia Roughriders (2020) Wheeling Miners (2025)
Former venues	Albany Civic Center (Georgia) Amway Center (Orlando) Arena Monterrey (Monterrey) Chisholm Trail Coliseum (Oklahoma) Columbus Civic Center (Columbus) Cross Insurance Arena (Maine) Crown Coliseum (Fayetteville) CURE Insurance Arena (Jersey) DCU Center (Massachusetts) Ector County Coliseum (West Texas) Ford Arena (Beaumont) Ford Idaho Center (Idaho) Freeman Coliseum (San Antonio) Greensboro Coliseum Complex (Carolina) Holmes Center (High Country) MVP Arena (Albany) PPL Center (Lehigh Valley) VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena (Jacksonville) WesBanco Arena (Wheeling) Westchester County Center (New York)
Seasons	2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

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