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United Soccer League (USL) is an organizer of soccer leagues in the United States of America. It operates both men's and women's leagues, both professional. Men's leagues currently organized are the USL Championship, USL League One, USL League Two, and the youth league, USL Youth. A women's league, the USL W League, began play in 2022. [2]
Since 1996, Major League Soccer (MLS) has been the only sanctioned USSF Division I men's outdoor soccer league in the United States. MLS has grown from 10 teams in 1996 to 30 teams in 2025. The USL Championship (USLC) is the only sanctioned Division II men's outdoor
The 2025 USL League One season will be the seventh season of USL League One, a professional men's soccer league in the third tier of the United States league system. Fourteen teams will participate in the 2025 season. Five teams, AV Alta FC, [1] FC Naples, [2] Portland Hearts of Pine, [3] Texoma FC, [4] and Westchester SC, [5] joined as ...
The USL Championship was granted second division sanctioning by the United States Soccer Federation in January 2017, leaving the third tier of American soccer unoccupied. . From 1996 to 2009, the United Soccer League operated leagues at the lower divisions under various names, including the USL Second Division in the third tier
USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is a semi-professional soccer league sponsored by United Soccer Leagues in the United States and Canada, forming part of the United States soccer league system. The league will feature 144 teams for the 2025 season, split into nineteen regional divisions across four conferences.
On September 8, 2010, the United Soccer Leagues formally announced the creation of USL Pro in a press release. [3] Prior to the official announcement of the new league, on August 11, 2010, the Dayton Dutch Lions FC revealed they would be joining the "USL-Pro Championship Division (former USL-2)" at a press conference, revealing the name of the new league before its official announcement. [4]
USL Championship, the second level of the U.S. men's soccer league system, which used the "United Soccer League" name from 2015–2018; USL League One, the third level of said system; USL League Two, the fourth level of said system; USL Super League, a planned U.S. top-level women's league set to start play in 2024; United States League, a ...
The USL W League (USLW) is a women's soccer league in the United States. It began play in May 2022 and follows the USL W-League , a similar league that existed from 1995 to 2015. [ 1 ] It is currently not sanctioned by the US Soccer Federation , meaning it doesn't have a position in the US soccer pyramid .