Shared during the community benefits meeting Here's a link: https://detroitmi.gov/document/dcfc-cbo-community-meeting-presentation For those wanting to get more details

Points I found interesting. They're looking for 100 acres for a stadium project because they don't just want a stadium that's going to be near impossible in the city. He also says they will implement division 1 and then 4 years later implement pro/rel with one up one down. I don't know if that's ironed out yet or that's just his opinion p

https://medium.com/the-union-report-fan-based-reporting-on-the/the-3-players-who-will-be-key-to-monterey-bay-fc-making-the-2025-usl-championship-playoffs-3eaf97db64b4?sk=617caa02a4afa8e322348c317b37bf66

New majority owner of UFL wants to move Michigan Panthers to Detroit City’s new stadium.

Has anyone heard any new rumors or updates?

Apologies if this was posted already. I searched for it in the thread and didn't see it.

As a Texoma fan I would consider us to be an extremely small professional sports market. This question is relevant because Tormenta who are another very small market team won League One in 2022.

What would happen in the Pro/Rel contest, if by some miracle we won League One, then went to win the Championship the next year. (a long shot admittedly). Would we be allowed to compete in “USL Premier” given that our market is so small?

Edit: I have moved all Championship expansion teams to the correct league. Thanks for pointing out this error. I wanted to use team popularity for the leagues, so I went with attendance. Club table records, ownership, and finances would also be a good measure.

USL Premiership

1.      New Mexico United

2.      Sacramento Republic FC

3.      Louisville City FC

4.      Indy Eleven

5.      Oakland Roots SC

6.      Rhode Island FC

7.      Colorado Switchbacks FC

8.      Detroit City FC

9.      San Antonio FC

1. Portland Hearts of Pine

2. El Paso Locomotive FC

3. Tampa Bay Rowdies

4. Pittsburg Riverhounds SC

5. Hartford Athletic

6. Phoenix Rising FC

7. Richmond Kickers

Regular season: 30 games (home-and-away)

Playoffs: 7 teams. (Regular season winner gets 1^st round bye)

Relegation: 3 teams (Bottom 2 teams automatically relegated. Bottom 3^rd team plays against 3^rd place Championship playoff winner)

USL Championship

1.      Birmingham Legion FC

2.      Orange County SC

3.      AV Alta FC

4.      Lexington SC

5.      Forward Madison FC

6.      Charleston Battery

7.      FC Naples

8.      One Knoxville SC

9.      Monterey Bay FC

1. Sporting Club Jacksonville

2. Atletico Dallas

3. Santa Barbara Sky

4. Milwaukee Pro Soccer

5. Brooklyn FC

6. OKC Energy FC

7. USL Pro Iowa

Regular season: 30 games (home-and-away)

Playoffs: 7 teams. (Regular season winner gets 1^st round bye)

Promotion: 2 playoff winners (automatic) and 3^rd place winner (relegation match)

Relegation: 3 teams (Bottom 2 teams automatically relegated. Bottom 3^rd team plays against 3^rd place Championship playoff winner)

USL League One

Eastern Conference

1.      North Carolina FC

2.      Loudoun United FC

3.      Greenville Triumph FC

4.      Westchester SC

5.      Miami FC 

6.      Charlotte Independence

7.      South Georgia Tormenta FC

8.      New York Cosmos

9.      Fort Lauderdale United FC

1. Sarasota Paradise

Western Conference

1.      FC Tulsa

2.      Union Omaha

3.      Las Vegas Lights FC

4.      Spokane Velocity FC

5.      Chattanooga Red Wolves SC

6.      Texoma FC

7.      Fort Wayne FC

8.      Athletic Club Boise

9.      Corpus Christi FC

1. Sporting Cascades FC

Regular season: 28 games (Conference: home-and-away, Non-conference: home-or-away)

Playoffs: 10 teams (East & West play-in games. 5 teams from each conference)

Promotion: 2 playoff winners (East & West) (automatic) and 3^rd place winner(East vs. West)  (relegation match)

Conferences: Redrawn each season, with the 10 closest teams for East & West

Let me know any I missed

I feel like we get NOTHING these days. Another redditor suggested that it’s the players union choking off information for the sake of the players. Sounds like BS, but wtfdik?🤷‍♂️

What if the last place finisher of the lowest league in USL earns an "Anti-trophy." An example being a wooden paddle or cricket bat labled as "USL Paddle '29." It's a mild humiliation that sticks with the club until they're promoted or win a major trophy. At which time they could have a ceremonial fire to burn the trophy and memory of being last place.

Example: A club could theoretically finish last in L1 3 times earning 3 paddles. They could burn their last one as they win USL Premiere. Or get promoted to Championship back and forth 3 times.

Check out the RootsBlog preview of today’s match against Lexington. Or don’t! Honestly, probably don’t!

https://oaklandrootsblog.com/2025/08/23/lexington-s-c-vs-oakland-roots-match-preview-august-23-2025/

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