The 2013 Arena Football League season will be the twenty-sixth season in the history of the league. The regular season will begin on March 23, 2013 with a five game slate, the first of which to kickoff being between the Utah Blaze and the Pittsburgh Power, and will end on July 27, 2013 with the Utah Blaze and Cleveland Gladiators as the last game scheduled to kickoff. The league's playoffs will conclude with ArenaBowl XXVI to be played in Orlando, Florida on August 17, 2013.