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Riverhounds majority owner Tuffy Shallenberger stated that the voluntary filing was necessary to reorganize and alleviate financial stresses on the club that stemmed from additional spending which was incurred to increase construction speed at Highmark Stadium which was not part of the original $10.6 million budget.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC is an American professional soccer team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded and beginning play in 1999, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] the club plays in the Eastern Conference of the USL Championship , the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. [ 9 ]
The 2024 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season was the club's twenty-fifth season of existence, their eighth season in the second tier of American soccer, and their fourteenth season in the league now named the USL Championship (USLC). Bob Lilley returns for his seventh season as Riverhounds manager.
Highmark Stadium as seen from Mount Washington. Since the team's creation, there had been no official announcement concerning a permanent home for the Hounds, but much had been speculated since GM and manager Gene Klein, on 13 July 2007, said that the Riverhounds "are to the point on the stadium complex where it is a matter of paperwork and it will get done.
On November 2, 2015, it was announced that Richard Nightingale was no longer with the team and that Shallenberger had taken over as acting president. [1] After one season without an MLS affiliate, it was announced that the club had formed an affiliate partnership with the reigning Eastern Conference playoff champion and MLS Cup runner-up Columbus Crew SC for the 2016 season.
Tuffy Shallenberger: Head coach: Bob Lilley: USL Championship: Conference: 3rd ... The 2020 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season was the club's twenty-first season of ...
On November 26, the Riverhounds officially formed an affiliate partnership with Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer, becoming the fifth USL club to have an MLS affiliate. The partnership will be effective immediately, and "will enable the Dynamo to loan a minimum of four MLS-contracted players to Pittsburgh for the 2014 USL PRO season."
The 2018 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC season was the club's nineteenth season of existence, and their eighth consecutive season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of American soccer. Pittsburgh also competed in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covered the period from October 15, 2017, to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.