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While centered on Chicago, the league expanded to include teams from towns surrounding the city. In 1950, the National Soccer League created the first indoor soccer league in the United States. Chicago leagues had played indoor tournaments for decades but this was the first time an annual competitive indoor season was founded.
It seated 2,500 for indoor soccer, football or lacrosse, and up to 5,500 for boxing, MMA/UFC, wrestling, and concerts. In addition, the Odeum Expo Center featured two mezzanines, the lower with 4,340 square feet (403 m 2 ) and the upper mezzanine with 13,024 square feet (1,210 m 2 ) and a roof up to 40 feet (12 m).
Major League Indoor Soccer (MLIS) is an indoor soccer league that began play in 2022 and based in the United States. On August 18, 2022, Chicago (Mustangs) , Cleveland (Crunch) and Grand Rapids (Rapid City FC) were officially announced as charter teams.
The league fielded men's and women's divisions. [1] On March 24, 2021, the league announced its partnership with Nike yet internal sources state that the partnership never materialized based on the business practices of the NISL management and ownership. [2] On March 29, 2024, the league announced a merger with Major League Indoor Soccer. [3]
The MISL was founded by businessmen Ed Tepper and Earl Foreman in October 1977.. The league fielded six teams for its inaugural 1978–79 season. Before folding after 14 seasons of competition, at the conclusion of the 1991–92 season, a total of 24 franchises – under 31 team names (seven teams changed city/name) – had played in the MISL.
In November 1983, a Kalamazoo, Michigan–based group called Soccer Leagues Unlimited unveiled a plan for an indoor league composed exclusively of American players. The group's president, Bob Lemieux (later AISA commissioner), announced that Kalamazoo, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Springfield, Illinois, were on board in what was he said was intended to be a sort of farm system, or developmental ...
A.A.C. Eagles is an American soccer team based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1940, the team plays in Region II of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. They joined the United Premier Soccer League in 2022.
By 2011, INFC created its first youth and adult league programs and assembled its first travel soccer program in 2014. On November 18, 2016, it was announced in conjuncture with Richard Askey and Jomo Cromwell, INFC bought a franchise for the National Premier Soccer League and begin to field a senior men's team in 2017. [1]