Missouri Baptist University (MBU) has introduced a football program beginning this fall. Jason Burianek, has been appointed as the program's head coach.

The football program will start with the creation of a club team with around 30 student-athletes. The university plans to convert the team into a varsity college program by 2014 with approximately 80 to 100 players to begin playing in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

The university currently has 25 varsity sports teams.

The university hopes to increase its enrollments with the launch of the football program and at the same time strengthen the school's cheering program and poms and marching band.

Burianek is a former player of the University of Colorado and has served as an assistant coach at McKendree University.

He said that students will have to sign a documentation citing their Christian faith in order to be recruited in the team.

MBU is collaborating with the CBC High School to play all of its home games on their field and to access its facilities for soccer, lacrosse, track and field and wrestling matches.

Missouri Baptist University's athletic teams are known as the Spartans, which comprises of 11 men's and 12 women's sports. The university is a member of the NAIA.

Missouri Baptist University is a private orthodox Christian university. In August 2002, the Missouri Baptist College was officially renamed as Missouri Baptist University.

The university, which sits on an 81 acre land, currently offers undergraduate and graduate degrees for around 4,800 students. Its campus at West County and several satellite campuses in Greater St. Louis provide adult and evening education.