U.S. Soccer has awarded 36 open slots for the 2016 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. That covers all teams other than those in MLS, the NASL and USL, which qualify automatically. Eight slots will go to localqualifying teams (out of 56 entrants in a new qualifying process), 15 to PDL teams and 13 to NPSL […]
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What those big soccer crowds mean, and don't mean
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Soccer’s summer of 2015 has seen some extraordinary attendance figuresacross the United States. Major League Soccer remains on course to smash itsall-time average attendance record set in 2014. The 2015 average is up to 21,292 a game and showing no sign of dropping as seven of the nine crowds last weekend […]
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What They're Saying: NPSL chairman Joe Barone
“At the present time we are trying to come up with creative ways where Major League Soccer doesn’t crush us down. But all credit to MLS because if they weren’t around, we wouldn’t be around gettingthis hype now. MLS has done a tremendous job over the past five years but there are new realities to […]
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What They're Saying: Chattanooga FC head coach Bill Elliott
“I grew up in Chattanooga so it is very personal to me. For us to get over 18,000 fans in this stadium for an amateur soccer match is something I never thought I would see. It’soverwhelming, unbelievable. I don’t even know what to say.” — Chattanooga FC head coach Bill Elliott after his team drew […]
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NPSL championship draws 18,227 fans in Chattanooga
A year after the New York Red Bulls U23 beat Chattanooga FC to capture the NPSL championship, the New York Cosmos B spoiled the Tennessee club’s title hopes with a 3-2 win in overtime in front of arecord-breaking crowd of 18,227. The first-year Cosmos B got two goals from midfielder Ibrahim Diaby and one from […]
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Neeskens and Bover make All-NPSL First Team
John Neeskens, son of former Dutch great Johan Neeskens, and New York Cosmos B teammate Ruben Bover, formerly of MLS’s New York Red Bulls, are among the players named to the All-NPSL First Team. Gregory Hartley and Sean Rutter from Chattanooga FC, which will host the Cosmos B in Saturday’s league final, made the All-NPSL […]
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Crowd Count: Chattanooga FC draws record 9,236 fans
For the second year in a row, Chattanooga FC set a National Premier Soccer League attendance record in the national semifinals, but once against it could have to travel to a face a New York secondteam and not host the final. Saturday’s crowd of 9,236 at Finley Stadium watched CFC defeat the Indiana Fire 3-0. […]
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What They're Saying: Chattahooligans member Donny Stiefel
“The wonderful thing about this soccer team is that it brings people together from all different backgrounds, and that’s never more important than right now. That’s the great thing about soccer. It’sa unifying sport.” — Air Force veteran Donny Stiefel, a member of Chattanooga FC’s support group, The Chattahooligans, on the amateur NPSLteam that drew […]
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Gold Cup: Official rosters submitted
The 12 finalists for the 2015 Gold Cup have submitted their 23-player rosters for the tournament, which kicks off July 7. The selections include 45 players from MLS, six from the NASL,four from the USL and one from the NPSL. The rosters come entirely from the original 35-player provisional rosters submitted earlier this month. Following […]
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Open Cup: Five amateur teams pull upsets
Five amateur teams — the PDL’s Jersey Express and Ventura County Fusion, USASA’s PSA Elite and Chula Vista FC and NPSL’s Chattanooga FC — knocked off pro USL teams to advance tothe third round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The night also featured a record crowd. Sacramento Republic FC set another mark when […]