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Major League Soccer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MLS was formed on December 17, 1993, in fulfillment of U.S. Soccer's promise to FIFA to establish a "Division One" professional football (soccer) league in exchange for the staging of the FIFA World Cup USA 1994 in the United States. Major League Soccer (MLS) is the top soccer league in the United States in the American Soccer Pyramid. However this is a considerable expense to the league, and to provide better facilities as well as to control revenue for the stadium, a major goal of MLS management is to build its own stadiums, which are often called "soccer-specific stadiums". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_League_Soccer   (3159 words)

National Soccer League (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Soccer League, or NSL, was the former national soccer (association football) competition in Australia, overseen by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. This structure is similar to that of Major League Soccer in the United States, and to the major leagues of other popular football codes in Australia. A new league — the Hyundai A-League — commenced in August 2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Soccer_League_(Australia)   (573 words)

Premier Soccer League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Premier Soccer League is the trading name of the National Soccer League of South Africa, also known by its initials (PSL). The PSL, under the auspices of SAFA, is sponsoring the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which will be played at the home stadia of the PSL league teams. Until the end of the 2001-2002 season the league had 18 clubs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_African_Football_League_teams   (314 words)

Canadian Soccer League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Canadian Soccer League was a professional soccer league in Canada from 1987 to 1992. Edmonton Brickmen (1987-1990) (formerly of the Western Soccer Alliance) Three of its teams, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, went on to join the APSL in 1993. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Soccer_League   (144 words)

USL First Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American Professional Soccer League was formed in 1990 with the merger of the Western Soccer League and the third incarnation of the American Soccer League. It is the second division of soccer in the United States league pyramid behind Major League Soccer, and is effectively the top division in Canada. The APSL was officially sanctioned as an outdoor pro league in 1992 by United States Soccer Federation and changed its name to A-League Soccer in 1995. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_League_Soccer   (562 words)

Major League Soccer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Major League Soccer (MLS) is the top soccer league in the United States in the American Soccer Pyramid, sanctioned by the professional division of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer), a member of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). MLS was formed on December 17, 1993, in fulfillment of U.S. Soccer's promise to FIFA to establish a "Division One" professional football league in exchange for the staging of the FIFA World Cup USA 1994 in the United States. However this is a considerable expense to the league, and to provide better facilities as well as to control revenue for the stadium, a major goal of MLS management is to build its own stadiums, which are often called "soccer-specific stadiums". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_League_Soccer   (2194 words)

Major Soccer League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Major Soccer League should not be confused with Major League Soccer, the highest level outdoor soccer league in the USA, or with the current Major Indoor Soccer League. The Major Soccer League, originally called the Major Indoor Soccer League, was an indoor soccer league in the USA from 1978 to 1992. After the league folded in 1992, the Cleveland and Wichita teams joined the National Professional Soccer League. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_Soccer_League   (503 words)

Regional Canadian Soccer Leagues In a country as vast as Canada the geographical extent of viable amateur and semi-pro soccer leagues is going to be limited to the distance that can comfortably be travelled in a single round trip by bus or car during the players time away from their regular jobs on weekends. At the end of the 1992 season the three top franchises in the CSL from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal defected to a US based league called the American Professional Soccer League (later renamed the A League). Despite this the CSA decided to try to proceed anyway and nine months later after 156 meetings and 71 pizza dinners involving soccer enthusiasts from various cities from coast to coast it was announced that a new 8 team pro league called the Canadian United Soccer League would be formed based on a blueprint document. www.geocities.com /london_ontario_soccer_fan   (1324 words)

Soccer Frame The Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL) The league was formed as a result of an study completed in 1996 that identified professional soccer as a major priority and that it should be developed from the bottom up with strong links to a now well established and identifiable grass roots club program. The A-League is part of the umbrella organization of the United Soccer Leagues with the League offices in Tampa, Florida. The Toronto Eagles Soccer Club Inc. is a volunteer based, community run youth soccer club operating in the Central/South area of Toronto since 1997. www.canucklinks.com /mainsoccerlinks.htm   (653 words)

Major League Soccer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American soccer leagues have not generally been considered to be successes, for a variety of reasons. Unlike most other nations, there is currently no system of promotion and relegation in American soccer; although repeated suggestions for such a system have been made, such an organization does not exist in any sport in America, and the disparity in attendance between divisions makes such a vertical integration impractical. American Soccer Pyramid, sanctioned by the professional division of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer), a member of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_League_Soccer   (653 words)

Garden Little League Soccer Although this non-profit league is sanctioned by the school (and uses the school's fields plus other facilities), Garden Little League Soccer is managed and operated by a group of parents on a voluntary basis. The Garden Little League Soccer was formed with the approval of the school in April 2000. The League's intent is to help develop the children's soccer skills, teamwork and sportsmanship. www.angelfire.com /space/gis_lls   (487 words)

Encyclopedia: Canadian Soccer League Canadian Soccer League was a professional soccer league in Canada from 1987 to 1992. Toronto Blizzard is a name given to two former professional soccer teams based in Toronto who played in two now defunct leagues, and briefly in a third that changed its name. The Vancouver Whitecaps (officially Whitecaps F.C.) are a Canadian professional soccer team, which currently plays in the USL First Division (formerly the A-League) of the United Soccer Leagues (USL), the largest system of national soccer leagues in North America. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canadian-Soccer-League   (301 words)

Club Profile: Coast Soccer League Premier: Getting It Right The Premier League is a 2-year-old offshoot of the Coast Soccer League, a 1,000-team competitive league stretching 300 miles north from San Luis Obispo to the Mexican border. Officials vie to work Premier League games for several reasons: They have their own tent; three-man teams are paid at the rate of $1.20 per minute - and they are guaranteed at least three games a day. Though it is perhaps the most innovative in the country, the CSL Premier League refuses to rest on its laurels. www.cslpremier.com /socam/article.html   (1602 words)

Michigan Premier Soccer League The Michigan Premier Soccer League (MPSL) was established in 1995. soccer Association (MSA) in order to establish a league utilizing the best of those leagues while avoiding their problems. Decisions made by the Board are done so with the vote approval of the membership of the league and all members have the right to bring to the floor their opinions and concerns. www.mipsl.com /about.htm   (731 words)

United Soccer Leagues (USL) United Soccer Leagues announced Friday that Daniel Frias of the PDL finalist El Paso Patriots has been honored as the 2005 Most Valuable Player for the past regular season as voted on by team coaches and general managers. United Soccer Leagues announced Wednesday the Delaware Dynasty Soccer Club has officially acquired the franchise rights from USL for a team in the PDL beginning in the 2006 season. United Soccer Leagues announced Thursday the Premier Development League Coach of the Year award as voted on by the league’s coaches and general managers, honoring Indiana Invaders coach Methembe Ndlovu. pdl.uslsoccer.com   (369 words)

National Women's Soccer League 2002 saw the introduction of the National Women's Soccer League, an eight-team round-robin affair which replaced the long-standing National Women's Soccer Tournament as the provincial showpiece of the women's soccer season. Capital Soccer (Wellington), as winners of the last National Tournament, were deemed the inaugural holders of the trophy, and made their first defence of it in their first home game of the 2002 NWSL season, against Mainland Soccer (Canterbury). The old National Tournament championship trophy was also utilised in the new competition, and given a new lease of life as the New Zealand Women's Soccer Challenge Cup. www.ultimatenzsoccer.com /id986.htm   (199 words)

PM - National Soccer League restructured Just like we have restructured the Soccer Australia we are restructuring the league. Soccer Australia, as it then was, was the first casualty of the multi-millionaire's ambitious plan to save soccer. A taskforce established by multi-millionaire Frank Lowy to work out how to make soccer a success has identified big spending cashed-up national soccer clubs as the key; a minimum of ten teams, each with two million dollars' capital and a budget of $5.5 million within five years of being accepted in to the competition. www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s1005929.htm   (724 words)

Canadian National Soccer League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Canadian National Soccer League, originally just the National Soccer League, until 1993, was a professional soccer league in Canada that existed from 1922 to 1997. A different league, the Canadian Professional Soccer League, started in 1998 and a few of the CNSL teams joined that league. This page was last modified 02:16, 18 October 2004. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_National_Soccer_League   (82 words)

National Soccer League National Soccer League is the name given to several existing or historical Soccer (Association football) around the world, including: www.free-download-soft.com /info/voice-effects.html   (39 words)

National Soccer League (Chicago) The National Soccer League (and its predecessor) for years was one of the top amateur leagues in the country, along with the St. Louis League, the German American League of New York and the Greater Los Angeles League. Although the National League (like all other amateur leagues) has taken a lower profile since the modern advent of major league soccer in 1967, the league remains as one of the top three amateur circuits in the country with a long and proud history. The NSL was formed in 1920 as the International Soccer Football League of Chicago, with Frank Foldi as its first president. www.sover.net /~spectrum/nsl.html   (346 words)

Stephane MOT - MLS The NASL decides to recycle north american major league receipes : showtime, cheerleaders and a "franchises" system where the clubs are first of all corporations likely to move anytime to another city in order to follow their market. Soccer radiates beyond the latino and european minorities and the evolution seems a durable one. The sports risk is reduced to the minimum : neither relegation nor promotion, the league remains composed of the same teams whatever their results, the cast and number can change in case of league expansions (every member accepting the new member) or bankrupcies. www.geocities.com /stephanemot/E-stephanemot-MLS.html   (2202 words)

Major League Soccer :: MLS Major League Soccer was formed in 1996 to bring a professional element to soccer in the United States of America. A Major League Soccer season starts in early April ends in late October with the MLS Cup. The length of Major League Soccer games is two 45-minute halves with allotments for injury time and overtime. www.soccer-1st.com /9500-major-league-soccer.htm   (239 words)

Major League Soccer (MLS) Major League Soccer has allowed the sport to enjoy unprecedented success during its first eight campaigns on the field, in the stands, on television and among the League's numerous commercial affiliates. The league's goal is to become the world's most competitive and prestigious soccer leagues as well as one of America's premier sports and entertainment properties. As the League for the New America, MLS strives to unite soccer's young, ethnic, digital and hard-core fans in the U.S., fueling their passion and providing aspiration - and inspiration - to a rapidly expanding soccer culture. www.soccerhall.org /MLS_Info.htm   (2223 words)

CTV.ca - Plans for Canadian professional soccer league - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television The proposed league's board of directors includes former national team coach Tony Waiters; Dino Madonis, president of the Quebec soccer federation; Angelo Bitondo of the Royal Group; Brian Avey, executive director of the Ontario Soccer Association; and Bruno Hartrell, owner of the Toronto Lynx. TORONTO - Plans for a domestic professional soccer league have progressed to a blueprint for an eight-team league kicking off in 2003, according to the chairman of the planned Canadian United Soccer League. The 12-team Canadian Professional Soccer League, which has 11 teams in Ontario and one in Montreal, would serve as a second division of the new league. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1027388242158_22797442?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory   (353 words)

Voyageurs Soccer Talk Soon after the planners of the proposed league revised their blueprint to join forces with the Canadian Professional Soccer League, a 12-team semi-pro circuit with all but one team in Ontario.  The CUSL's original plan was to add teams to the existing A-League franchises and form a Canadian division that would play an interlocking schedule with the largely American A-League, which operates as a feeder circuit to Major League Soccer.  The four A-League teams, which currently represent the highest level of soccer in Canada, have told the Canadian United Soccer League planners they are no longer in the picture. www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=4693&messageid=1007604421   (919 words)

Canadian Soccer League The CSL is the only truly full-scale attempt to create a top level professional soccer league in Canada. Team struggled constantly under financial losses and finally the league folded after only 6 years of existence, with three remaining teams joining the American Professional Soccer League. Edmonton joined the league from the Western Soccer Alliance. www.rsssf.com /usadave/csl.html   (179 words)

SOCCER WORLD SYSTEMS -COMPANY BACKGROUND Gibson's background in the local soccer community is vast, spending several years coaching youth competitive teams, senior amateur, professionally in the Canadian Soccer League and then at the collegiate level with Mohawk College. His professional coaching debut was in 1988 with the Hamilton Steelers of the Canadian Soccer League. McGrane's playing career spanned 10 years in the North American Soccer League, playing with the likes of Pele, George Best, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff and Carlos Alberto, who were all captains of their World Cup teams. www.soccerworldsystems.com /company.asp   (421 words)

LOOP48 NUKE SOCCER - Web - Pro Soccer Success, A Notion Our main focus was not to create new teams and a new soccer league. The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum was incorporated by the OSA as a Celebration of Canadian Soccer. He was appointed historian at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1997 and also serves as the historian at The Soccer Hall of Fame in Canada. soccer.loop48.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1764   (1283 words)

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