Cincinnati a big soccer town? Two years ago, no one would have said that. But after the success of the USL’s FC Cincinnati with four 30,000-plus crowds this season, the U.S. women’s national teamshould play before its largest crowd since 2015 when it hosts New Zealand Tuesday night at Nippert Stadium. A crowd of more […]
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What They're Saying: Jill Ellis
“I’m sure I just pissed someone off saying that. Sorry.” — U.S. women’s national team Jill Ellis, saying she was sure FC Cincinnati would get an MLS expansion team, beforeTuesday’s friendly against New Zealand in Cincinnati. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
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Crowd Count: USL tops 1.5 million mark
The USL passed the 1.5 million mark in attendance as Wednesday’s five games drew an average of more than 9,700 fans. FC Cincinnati’s crowd of 20,058 at Nippert Stadium for its 3-1 win over Ottawa washigher than the crowds for four MLS games. MLS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 ATT. MATCH (SCORE) 28,645 TorontoFC vs. Philadelphia (3-0) […]
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Stadium hangup hinders even hottest new soccer market
Of the 12 MLS expansion candidates, none has come farther in a shorter period of time than Cincinnati. Second-year USL club FC Cincinnati has shattered all attendance records forminor-league soccer — it is averaging 20,466 fans in 2017 — and drew three crowds of greater than 30,000 for its home Open Cup games. But that […]
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Even in defeat, FC Cincinnati galvanizes soccer support
For 75 minutes, everything was going great for FC Cincinnati. Before a sellout crowd of 33,250 fans at Nippert Stadium, the USL upstarts led the New York Red Bulls, 2-0, and appeared to be headed tothe U.S. Open Cup final with its sixth shutout in six games. But then it was 2-1 and after that […]
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Fever pitch: Open Cup excitement at new heights
It will be one of the biggest matches in the history of the U.S. Open Cup: FC Cincinnati vs. New York Red Bulls before a sellout crowd of more than 36,000 at Nippert Stadium. Tuesday’ssemifinal will also be one of the biggest sporting events of the year in Cincinnati and will have everything but a […]
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Crowd Count: FC Cincinnati sets new USL mark
FC Cincinnati broke its own USL regular-season attendance record when it drew 25,308 fans at Nippert Stadium for its 2-2 tie with with Orlando City B on Saturday. The crowd was larger than all but oneMLS crowd over the weekend. New York City drew 33,679 fans at Yankee Stadium for its derby against the Red […]
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Open Cup: Cincy set for another possible date with history
Senegalese globetrotter Djiby Fall scored his fourth game-winner of the 2017 competition in the 68th minute to give the USL’s FC Cincinnati a 1-0 win at NASL spring champion Miami FC anda berth in the semifinals of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Fall also scored the deciders in the first three Cincy games — […]
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USL Rewind: Charlotte's unbeaten streak at 10 games
The top of the USL’s Eastern Conference is getting mighty tight. Led by two Lewis Hilton goals, Charlotte closed to within a point of leader Charleston byblasting Bethlehem Steel, 4-0, and is part of a logjam atop the conference by which four teams are each separated by just a point. The Independence ran its unbeaten […]