North Alabama Lions football

First season1912 (1912)Athletic directorJosh LooneyHead coachBrent Dearmon
4th season, 8–27 (.229)LocationFlorence, AlabamaStadiumBobby Wallace Field at Bank Independent Stadium
(capacity: 10,000)NCAA divisionDivision I FCSConferenceUACColorsPurple and gold
All-time record488–325–16 (.598)Playoff record35–18 (.660)NCAA Division II championships1993, 1994, 1995Conference championshipsGSC: 1980, 1983, 1985, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016Consensus All-Americans63RivalriesWest Alabama (rivalry)Fight songGo! Fight! U-N-A!MascotLeo and UnaMarching bandMarching Pride of North AlabamaOutfitterAdidasWebsiteroarlions.com

The North Alabama Lions football program represents the University of North Alabama (UNA) in college football as the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level as a member of the United Athletic Conference (UAC). The current UAC is a rebranding of the conference that operated as the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) from its formation in 1962 through the 2025–26 school year. The all-sports UAC absorbed a football-only UAC that played from 2023–2025 as a merger of the football leagues of UNA's previous primary home of the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) and the WAC. UNA had played the 2022 season in the ASUN, and before that had played football in the Big South Conference for three seasons. After the 2025–26 school year, the WAC rebranded as the UAC, with the initial membership of the all-sports UAC consisting of UNA, four other football-sponsoring schools from the ASUN (Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and West Georgia), three schools from the WAC (Abilene Christian, Tarleton State, and non-football UT Arlington), and non-football Little Rock from the Ohio Valley Conference. The all-sports UAC later added Division II upgrader West Florida as a football-only affiliate starting in the 2026 season.

UNA plays its home games at Bobby Wallace Field at Bank Independent Stadium in Florence, Alabama. The team's head coach is Brent Dearmon. UNA was an NCAA Division II member from 1972 to 2017.

The Lions are distinguished as the only team to win three consecutive football national championships in NCAA Division II. UNA's 27 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the Division II polls also comprise the longest stretch of consecutive No. 1 rankings in football in NCAA history on any level. UNA was the last Division II team to beat a Division I-A (FBS) team, defeating Southwestern Louisiana (now Louisiana) on October 11, 1997. In 2016, UNA won their fourth consecutive Gulf South Conference championship — a conference record.