List of United States soccer teams

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Different levels of men's soccer [change]

A league is a group of teams that play against each other. There are three professional leagues of soccer teams in the Professional Division of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer). (A professional team has players who get paid for playing; an amateur team has players who do not get paid.) The top level league is Major League Soccer (MLS). The second level is the current North American Soccer League. The United Soccer Leagues make up the lower divisions; USL Pro is the third-division league and the USL Premier Development League is at the fourth level.

Teams from Canada, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and Antigua and Barbuda also compete in the U.S. league system. However, none of these teams can play in the United States' cup competition, the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. That tournament is open only to teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. Also, only teams from the United States proper (excluding U.S. possessions such as Puerto Rico) can represent the country in the CONCACAF Champions League.

Major League Soccer [change]

North American Soccer League [change]

USL Pro [change]

USL Premier Development League [change]

Structure of women's soccer [change]

The professional division of U.S. Soccer has had two different first-division women's leagues. The first, the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), was founded in 2001, but folded due to large debts after the 2003 season. The second, Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), was effectively a successor to WUSA, although it did not begin until 2009. Like WUSA before it, WPS played three seasons, but also lost large amounts of money; it first decided not to play its planned 2012 season, and then completely folded in May of that year.

Today, the top level of women's soccer in the U.S. is WPSL Elite, a "semi-pro" league that has both professional and amateur teams. WPSL Elite was created by the Women's Premier Soccer League, one of two second-division women's leagues, as an outlet for former WPS teams, as well as WPSL teams that wanted to play professionally. WPSL Elite began in 2012 with eight teams; six of them are professional, and three once played in WPS. The other second-division league is the W-League, part of the United Soccer Leagues.

Women's United Soccer Association [change]

Operated from 2001–2003.

Women's Professional Soccer [change]

Operated from 2009–2011.

WPSL Elite [change]

W-League [change]

Professional indoor soccer [change]

Indoor soccer is a form of soccer played inside a building, sometimes called an arena, instead of in a stadium on a grass field. There is one national league playing indoor soccer in North America, the Major Indoor Soccer League. The MISL is part of the USSF. It is also the only league in the United States to have a Mexican team.

Major Indoor Soccer League [change]

Other pages [change]

Other websites [change]

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