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United Soccer League (USL) is an organizer of soccer leagues in the United States. It operates several 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]
Toledo Villa FC is a pre-professional soccer club in Toledo, Ohio competing in the Valley Division of the Central Conference in USL League Two. They previously played in the Premier League of America, United Premier Soccer League, and National Premier Soccer League.
Five professional leagues of men's soccer teams [citation needed] are sanctioned by the Professional Division of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer). The top-level men's league is Major League Soccer (MLS) and the second level men's league is the USL Championship.
USL Pro debuted in 2011, starting with 15 teams playing a 24-game regular season schedule. American and National Division teams played a home-and-away series against all opponents from the two divisions (totaling 18 games), and 2 additional regional rivalry matches, with each team making an additional trip to either Los Angeles or the Caribbean to play two games while hosting International ...
The 2025 USL Championship season will be the 15th season of the USL Championship and the eighth season under Division II sanctioning. 24 teams in two conferences will compete in the regular season. [1] Lexington SC joined from USL League One. Memphis 901 FC withdrew because it was unable to secure construction of a soccer-specific stadium.
In 2020, they added a U23 team in the Ohio Valley Premier League, [3] winning the league's inaugural season in the Fall of 2020. [4] In 2021, they joined USL League Two , the top amateur division in the United States, while still planning to operate their OVPL team.
USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is an amateur/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 featured 128 teams for 2024, split into eighteen regional divisions across four conferences.
On June 21, 2021, Major League Soccer announced the formation of a new professional league, which would act as a developmental program for its clubs. [158] The new league, which was unveiled on December 6, 2021, would be named MLS Next Pro and the Crew's team would be Columbus Crew 2. [159] The league and club compete at the Division III level.