US Soccer’s Club Structure – Bonus: The NASL Situation
US Soccer’s Club Structure: Series PostsBreakdown of the Structure – Behind the Structure – Inland NW Teams in the Structure – Introduction What was the NASL Situation? Well, that is an extremely sticky, complicated mess to explain. If you wanna dive deep into a rabbit hole read on. The seeds start in 2006 with the […]
US Soccer’s Club Structure – The Local Teams
US Soccer’s Club Structure: Series PostsBehind the Structure – Breakdown of the Structure – Introduction MEN Spokane Velocity – An expansion USL League One franchise set to kick off play in 2024. Spokane Shadow – Locally, the Spokane Shadow have participated in four of the leagues in the ‘fourth tier’ and remain members of EPLWA. […]
US Soccer’s Club Structure – Behind the System
And now for the boring stuff. Why the system is what it is and why it is not so simple to match what is done around most of the world. US Soccer’s Club Structure: Series PostsBreakdown of the Structure – Inland NW Teams in the Structure – Introduction Anti-Trust Law: This is perhaps the biggest […]
US Soccer’s Club Structure – The Breakdown
First of all, there are some basic factors to understand about the structure and why teams are in certain leagues, especially in comparison to most other leagues around the world. US club soccer is a closed system due to anti-trust law and many more of these factors – for a further exploration of those factors […]
US Soccer’s Club Structure: An Introduction
How complex is the US Soccer structure to explain. Well, on one hand it is kinda simple when you just list out the tiers and leagues. But I wanted to provide more background and context. And that, well, took a bit of work, chipping away at the following over the past week or so, including […]