Virginia Armada

The Virginia Armada are a professional American football team based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The team is a member of the Major League Football (MLFB), a publicly traded professional football league, and plays its home games at Virginia Beach Sportsplex.

Virginia Armada

Founded	2022; 3 years ago (2022)
Based in	Virginia Beach, Virginia
Home stadium	Virginia Beach Sportsplex
Head coach	Terry Shea
Owner(s)	Major League Football, Inc. (publicly traded company)
League	Major League Football
Website	www.mlfb.com/Virginia

The Force are part of the league "Core Four" teams.^[1] They are the first pro football team in Virginia since the United Football League Virginia Destroyers.

History

On March 18, 2022, Major League Football launched a new website and revealed that there will be only four teams for the first season.^[2] On March 22 the league reveled their second coach in Terry Shea.^[3] The league would later reveal he will coach the Virginia Armada.^[4]

The Armada started their training camp on July 21.^[5] One week later, the team was evicted from its hotel amid unpaid bills and reports of the league shutting down.^[6]

Staff

Virginia Armada staff

	Head coaches Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator – Terry Shea Offensive coaches Offensive Line - Art Valero Wide Receivers/Tight Ends - Mike Wilson Offensive Intern - Kyle Gallagher[7] Defensive coaches Defensive Coordinator - Dennis Creehan Defensive Line - Eric Hicks Defensive Backs – Robert Trott Defensive Intern - Mike James[8]

Players

Virginia Armada roster
Quarterbacks  7 George Bowen  4 Tyquell Fields 12 D'Angelo Fulford  5 Nik Rango Running backs 31 Tomas Newman  3 BJ Smith 22 Elliott Taylor 21 Leroy Wilson Wide receivers  1 Erick Brundidge 11 Marquise Irvin 18 Arthur Jackson III 16 Charlie Jones 13 Alexis Rosario 25 Cole Thurness  2 Jaetavian Toles 15 Melvin Vaughn  8 Tevon Wright Tight ends 83 Quentin Chaplin 88 Daniel Crawford 80 Ceejhay French-Love 85 Taron Mallard		Offensive linemen 65 Pailake Aiono OL 68 Terrance Ames OL 72 Chris Boles OG 63 Dustin Burns C/T 77 Shane Carpenter OG 60 Niko Culnan C 62 Brad-Edward Davis G/C 71 Daishawn Dixon OG 74 Joseph Park OG 76 T.J. Roundtree OG 51 Taylor Tappin OT Defensive linemen 91 Javier Edwards DT 93 Kaiona Fuiava DT 95 Sha-Ki Holines DL 96 Avien Peah DT 90 Nick Raby DE 48 Ethan Skarnas DE 97 Shymere Vesels DT 98 Lionell Wiggins DT 94 John Williams DT 99 Savian Williams DE		Linebackers 44 Blair Brown 46 Denzel Feaster 49 Chrishom Frazier 41 Patrick Howell 45 Mark McLaurin 40 Manoa Pikula 47 Talyor Powell 42 Phillip Redwine Defensive backs 27 M.J. Hampton 20 David Jones 41 Michael Palmer 29 Derrion Rakestraw 10 Delon Smith 19 Kaseem Smith 17 Boniface Stevens 24 Roman Tatum 28 Alex Thomas 32 Jaylen Thomas 14 Michael Witherspoon 33 Coray Williams Special teams  9 Tyler Basch K 50 Clay Dzizkan LS  6 Clark Riedel P		Injured reserve Currently vacant Practice squad Currently vacant Inactive Currently vacant Rookies in italics Roster updated July 24, 2022 66 Active, 0 Inactive → More rosters