It was sarcasm and jab at people like tinfoil Ted who blamed all of usl/nasl problems on mls and lack of pro/rel.
Does your ISP not offer Google Depends. But there have been very few true “moves” as we traditionally think of them. Austin moved to Orlando, that was clear enough. The “spot in the league” bit is less so. (Nashville selling its A-League rights so that Virginia Beach could fulfill a commitment to putting a team back in the SportsPlex is a different animal. The Colorado Foxes bailing for San Diego is in the middle somewhere.) That’s either paperwork or what they call a “phoenix club” (like Accrington Stanley). Rangers were wound up, too, but the only effective difference was a detour to the lower levels. Then again, many English clubs, obviously ones in the league but some outside it, too, are able to find a buyer because they are actually meaningful to their communities or “too big to fail.” Here in the US, teams are disposable. As the Guardian article notes, actual sales (new owner, same market, continuity) are fairly rare here below MLS. (The relatively recent trend of “leaving the history behind for the next guy” muddies the waters a bit, too.)
FC Tucson is a very forgettable name. If they were called Tucson Tattletailers or Tucson Shakeastickats I might notice them in the table.
FC Montreal was CF Montreal's (fka Montreal Impact) reserve team that played in USL. I wouldn't include them in the list of folded treams.
In case if anyone was wondering, the New York Cosmos just started their first regular season match in over six years. Stadium looks...half empty. Terrible camera quality, player names and numbers are completely illegible from the broadcast angle. The livestream cuts off occasionally.
They're all forgettable names anymore. They did go away, obviously, and weren't viable. But, yeah, it's not completely fair to categorize those reserve teams the same way. Financial viability was always secondary for those teams. Well, duh. They can't get promoted (yet). That would fix everything. Hinchliffe is a historic venue, but, yeah....that's a bad start.
55 minutes in and tickets are still available on the Cosmos website. Hinchcliffe was home to the New York Black Yankees. Announced attendance 4,099.
Both teams having numbers like that is insane. It looks like both went with a solid color that blends into the shirt instead of an outline around the primary color. DC did that in the super league the first half of the first season and then changed them over the break so that people could tell what number players were wearing.
See this is one of the huge problems with the usl . There plenty of smaller minor league towns like witchita , Sioux Falls etc… that have no pro soccer at any level and yet they are adding 3 teams that already has 2 mls teams that struggle with attendance and media attention.
Wichita and Sioux Falls might be on USL's list. They just have to find some real estate development deals to jump on the back of.
Putting teams in tiny places is part of the problem, not the solution. The USSF standards require certain metro sizes for D1 and D2 leagues, >75% of teams in 750k metros for D2, >75% of teams in 1m metros for D1. If USL really wants to give pro/rel a try, then they've got to keep most teams based in large metros.
There are 5 men's soccer teams for 22 million people in the NYC metro. That's 2x the population of Belgium or 3.5x the population of Denmark. London has 14 teams serving 9 million, 7 D1, 3 D2, 2 D3 and 2 D4 plus several more in the suburbs. Even if you add the other 9 Major League teams and 2 or 3 significant women's teams, there's still room for a bit of minor league fun.
Have you ever asked yourself why Wichita and Sioux Falls have no pro soccer at any level? Leagues don't just say "That market would be good, put a team there." Someone has to actually want to pony up for a team there. (Or want to go in on a real estate venture there.)
Yep, and they've announced a privately funded stadium (who knows what that really means?) with 15k capacity but have no announced time frame that I can find anywhere.
They're supposed to be breaking ground in the first quarter of 2025. Oopsie! Is this the link you meant to post?
No, I posted the article that was updated on March 3. Also, they had to find a tatted up dude in a wife beater, who just recently moved there, to complain about the potential traffic.
Massive news out of Louisville City FC as former Union player and head USL coach Danny Cruz moves on from his coaching duties a day ahead of the team’s U.S. Open Cup match against Southern Indiana. Cruz departs to "pursue a new opportunity in professional soccer." Cruz was… pic.twitter.com/bwrAzc5cqR— José Roberto Nuñez (@JoserNunez91) March 17, 2026 Danny Cruz steps down as Louisville City Head Coach.
News: #MNUFC is expected to hire former Louisville City head coach Danny Cruz to join Cameron Knowles’ staff in Minnesota, sources told @PioneerPress. The USL club said Cruz was leaving Tuesday.Context: Cruz interviewed for #Loons head coaching job before Eric Ramsay was hired.— Andy Greder (@andygreder) March 17, 2026