2019 USL League One season

The 2019 USL League One season will be the inaugural season of USL League One.

Teams

Possible teams

In 2017, league executives toured the southeast and midwest United States for good soccer markets. Throughout their tour, they explored the cities of Lexington, Kentucky, Knoxville, Tennessee, Asheville, North Carolina, Greenville, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina in the southeast[1] and Dayton, Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Lansing, Michigan, and Grand Rapids, Michigan in the midwest.[2] The league executives also met with Premier Development clubs Tormenta FC[3] and Des Moines Menace[4] to discuss joining League One for the inaugural season. The cities of Fayetteville, North Carolina and High Point, North Carolina were visited in August 2017.[5]

Stadium sites

During the tour of the southeast and the midwest, the USL league executives visited the following stadiums in their southeastern tour:

Stadium City Capacity
Regal Soccer Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee 3,000
Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Complex[6] Lexington, Kentucky 3,000
Memorial Stadium Asheville, North Carolina 5,000
Fluor Field at the West End* Greenville, South Carolina 5,900
Eugene E. Stone III Stadium Columbia, South Carolina 5,000
Cumberland County Coliseum Fayetteville, North Carolina 10,880
*Baseball specific stadium

No confirmed stadiums have been found for the midwest tour.

Existing teams

One team from the Premier Development League is currently speculating a deal to move to League One to start in the inaugural season.

Team City Stadium Capacity Founded Owner
Midwest
Des Moines Menace West Des Moines, Iowa Valley Stadium 8,000 1994 Kyle Krause

See also

References

  1. ↑ "USL DIII VP Short reflects on southeast expansion tour". USL D3. May 10, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ "USL DIII expansion tour visits midwest". USL D3. May 22, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Tormenta FC to explore USL DIII possibilities". USL D3. May 5, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Homonoff: Menace 'Evaluation' USL's DIII". USL D3. June 16, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Short Shares Thoughts on North Carolina Visits". USL D3. August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Complex". University of Kentucky. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
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