Houston Roughnecks (2024)

Houston Roughnecks
Current season
Established November 22, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11-22) Play in Rice Stadium (Houston, Texas)
League/conference affiliations
United States Football League (2022–2023) South Division (2022–2023) United Football League (2024–present) USFL Conference (2024–present)
Current uniform
Team colors	Navy, red[1]
Personnel
Owner(s)	Fox Corporation (50%), Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson, RedBird Capital Partners (50%)
Head coach	Curtis Johnson
Team history
Houston Gamblers (2022–2023) Houston Roughnecks (2024–present)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (0)
Home stadium(s)
Protective Stadium/Legion Field (2022) Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (2023) Rice Stadium (2024–present)

The Houston Roughnecks are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Roughnecks compete in the United Football League (UFL). The team is owned-and-operated by Dwayne Johnson's Alpha Acquico and Fox Corporation. The team was a founding member of the USFL, as the Houston Gamblers in 2022, named after the 1980s USFL team of the same name. Though named after the city of Houston, the 2020s Gamblers never played there under that brand, instead playing its home games as the guest of other USFL teams in Birmingham, Alabama in 2022 and Memphis, Tennessee in 2023. When the USFL and XFL merged to form the UFL in 2024, the Gamblers took over the branding of the original Houston Roughnecks that had played the 2020 and 2023 seasons in the XFL and will play in Houston at Rice Stadium.