USL General News thread

Thank you for the correction. The USL teams still swept the NASL which was the important part of my post.

 

Not really no. Hadn't even looked at PDL. I was going off incorrect information in an article that stated that USL was on their third game.

 

http://louisvillecityfc.com/collin-fernandez-loaned-to-lou-city-from-chicago-fire/

Chicago Fire send player to USL ... but not to affiliate St. Louis. Interesting ... and another reason all of the "haters" can suck a lemon when calling the USL just a MLS Reserve/Minor League ... MLS teams and USL teams are still figuring it out as to what's best for the paticular player involved and not being forced or obligated to send them down to a team just because of an "affiliation".

SKC sent 2 players to an NASL team (San Antonio). So teams still are doing what's best for themselves and the player, which I think is good.

 

Several displays of support this weekend for the Charleston community :
http://www.uslsoccer.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=32800&ATCLID=210162187

 

30-game schedule for 2016.

Division III schedule lengths over time:

1994: 18
1995: 20
1996: 16
1997-2001: 18
2002-2010: 20
2011-2012: 24
2013: 26
2014-2015: 28
2016: 30

 

That should help with total league attendance!

 

A 30 game season would make for a tidy 16 team West/East. That necessitates adding 8 teams but that doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.

 

My thoughts aswell

 

Rhinos 2015 USL Champion

 

I just saw on Twitter that MLS owned teams in the USL will not be eligible to compete in the 2016 Open Club. They did not have a link. Anyone else heard anything about this.

 

http://thecup.us/2015/11/04/mls-own...d-in-2016-us-open-cup-per-ussf-policy-change/

 

thanx

 

Four days of league meetings next week: http://www.uslsoccer.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=32800&ATCLID=210477291

 

Needed to happen eventually. Unfortunate for Bethlehem Steel, I was rooting for em' to go deep next year...

 

with the sudden expansion of USL teams, i'm really curious what changes we see coming out of these 4 days of meetings.

Will any of the teams fold or move? will we see any major improvements to the league? that's what I want to know.

 

Well, USL announced the W League will cease operations before the 2016 season.

Bummer for women's soccer in the States.

 

the benefits of local ownership...be warned that this is a fluffy piece:

http://www.uslsoccer.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=32800&ATCLID=210483223

 

http://cityislanders.com/club-news/islanders-club-president-tiago-lopes-leaving-harrisburg/

President of HCI leaving.
HCI has lost some big pieces in the last few months... not sure what the future holds for them.

 

here comes the Players Union:

http://sbisoccer.com/2015/12/usl-players-move-towards-unionization

 

i'm sure this had the backing of the MLS PU