Columbia graduate and car-dealership owner Tim Kelly helped found Chattanooga FC in 2009. The NPSL team has averaged several thousand fans per game since it started operations and reached, andlost, four championship games. It runs operations on a very lean budget and does not employ professional players. One of the team’s founders, general manager Sean […]
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Obituary: NISA co-founder Jack Cummins
Jack Cummins, the co-founder of the National Independent Soccer Association that has been seeking to get a new Division 3 pro league off the ground, died unexpectedly after a brief illness. NISA co-founder Peter Wilt announced the news of Cummins’ death in a tweet. I am sorry to passon news this morning that NISA Co-founder […]
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NISA pushes back launch plans after only three D3 pro applications were accepted
The NISA has postponed plans to begin in the spring of 2018 after only three of the eight teams that submitted applications to the new Division 3 men’s pro league were accepted: Chattanooga,Connecticut and Miami. In a letter released on Friday, Peter Wilt, who has been spearheading the effort to get the league off the […]
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Pro/rel, the look from the bottom up
Much of the talk about promotion-relegation has focused on the top. How do you compensate owners for their investment in MLS? How do you handle contractual obligations made based on a club’s positionin MLS? And how do you compensate public authorities for moneys spent on the basis that a club would be in MLS? You […]
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New Division 3 league NISA places first eight markers
NISA (National Independent Soccer Association), a new Division 3 men’s pro league, revealed eight markets that have submitted applications to be part of its launch. It originally planned to start inthe spring of 2018, but it announced its inaugural season will be in 2018 or 2019, subject to U.S. Soccer sanctioning. Markets. Themost notable market […]