Nebraska flag football to play home games at Barbara Hibner Field

Nebraska flag football will play its home games at Barbara Hibner Field, giving the program a fixed campus venue with 2,500 seats, berms and standing room before it takes the field in spring 2028.

The setup is more than a scheduling note. Barbara Hibner Stadium & Field includes reserved chair-back seating, general admission bench-back seating, wheelchair seating, a Nebraska student section, a press box, concessions, restrooms, home and visitor benches, and separate west and east entrances. The venue is shared with Nebraska soccer, which has already used the facility for match day events.

Nebraska Athletics announced women’s flag football as a varsity sport on Jan. 16, 2026, and the Huskers said the first season of competition is set for spring 2028. Nebraska is the first Power Four program to add women’s flag football as a varsity team, a distinction that gives the program immediate visibility as it builds toward its debut season.

Barbara Hibner Field sits in the Hibner Stadium and Barbara Hibner Field complex on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus in Lincoln. Nebraska Athletics and project partner RDG Planning & Design have described the soccer and tennis complex as a state-of-the-art facility and a front door to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, language that underlines how centrally the school is positioning the space on campus.

That matters for a sport still in its early varsity phase. A home venue with a defined seating bowl, student section and game-day infrastructure gives Husker Flag Football a public face before the first snap in 2028, and it ties the program to a facility already used for high-profile women’s sports on campus. The Barbara Hibner name also connects the new team to a venue that has become part of Nebraska’s broader athletics footprint, rather than a temporary or improvised setup.

The decision places flag football alongside soccer in a multi-use environment built for fans as well as players, with the kind of seating options and access points that signal long-term planning. For Nebraska, the move turns an announcement about a new varsity sport into something more durable: a home field, a game-day setting and a visible commitment to making flag football part of the Huskers’ athletic identity.