The Dallas Sound are a

women's American football Women's gridiron football, more commonly known as women's tackle football, women's American football, women's Canadian football, or simply women's football, is a form of gridiron football (American or Canadian) played by women. Most leagues pla ...

team in the Extreme Football League ( X League) based in

Dallas, Texas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

History

The Extreme Football League ( X League) was announced in December 2019, as a successor to the

Legends Football League The Extreme Football League (X League) is a women's Semi-professional sports, semi-professional indoor American football league operating in the United States. The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and ...

(LFL). The announcement included the Austin Sound, a successor to the LFL's Austin Acoustic. The X League's 2020 season was postponed, and the league also did not operate during 2021, amid the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. The Sound first competed during the

2022 X League season The 2022 X League season was the inaugural season of the Extreme Football League (commonly known as the XLeague) in the United States. It began in June and concluded in September with the Chicago Blitz winning the inaugural "X Cup" championship g ...

, defeating the

Los Angeles Black Storm The Los Angeles Black Storm are a women's American football team in the Extreme Football League ( X League) based in Irvine, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. History The Extreme Football League ( X League) was announced in Dece ...

and losing to the Atlanta Empire during the regular season. The Sound advanced to the postseason, where they again lost to Atlanta, ending their season. On October 10, 2024, the X League officially announced the Austin Sound would move to Dallas, Texas for the 2025 season.

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* {{Extreme Football League 2022 establishments in Texas American football teams established in 2022 American football teams in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex X League US teams Women's sports in Dallas