The 2019

Tacoma Defiance Tacoma Defiance, formerly Seattle Sounders FC 2, is an American professional soccer team based in Tacoma, Washington, U.S. that competes in the MLS Next Pro, the third tier of the national soccer pyramid, as the reserve team of Seattle Sounder ...

season is the club's fifth year of existence, previously for the last four seasons as Seattle Sounders FC 2, and their fifth season in the

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, p ...

, the second tier of the

United States Soccer Pyramid The United States soccer league system is a series of professional and amateur soccer leagues based, in whole or in part, in the United States. Sometimes called the American soccer pyramid, teams and leagues are not linked by the system of pro ...

. This is the second season of the soccer team playing in the Tacoma, Washington. Defiance is majority owned by

Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders Football Club is an American professional men's soccer club based in Seattle. The Sounders compete as a member of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). The club was established on November 13, 2007, and began ...

Current roster

Out on loan

Competitions

Preseason

Friendlies

USL regular season

Standings

Results summary

Results by matchday

Matches

U.S. Open Cup

Due to their ownership by a higher division professional club (

), Tacoma is one of 13 teams expressly forbidden from entering the Cup competition.

Statistics

Appearances and goals

''Numbers after plus-sign(+) denote appearances as a substitute.''

Top scorers

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Justin Dhillon Justin Dhillon (born June 6, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for USL Championship club Colorado Springs Switchbacks. Career Dhillon began his career with the LA Galaxy Academy team where he led the Under 16 ...

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Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez (born March 25, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club Austin FC. Club career Ocampo-Chavez was raised in Merced, California to Mexican parents, playing in the ...

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Azriel Gonzalez Azriel, Asriel or Ezriel may refer to: People * Azriel of Gerona (c. 1160–c. 1238), Catalan kabbalist * Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), German rabbi * Azriel Rabinowitz (1905–1941), Lithuanian rabbi and Holocaust victim * Azriel Rosenfeld ...

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Will Bruin William Christopher Bruin (born October 24, 1989) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC. Prior to joining Seattle, he spent 6 seasons playing for the Houston Dynamo. ...

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Henry Wingo Henry Swenson Wingo (born October 4, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Ferencvárosi TC in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. Career Early career Henry Wingo spent time as a youth playing for Northwest Nati ...

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Alec Díaz Alec Díaz (born December 7, 2001) is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a forward who currently plays for MLS Next Pro club Colorado Rapids 2 and the Puerto Rico national team. Early life Díaz began playing soccer at age three or four. ...

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Ethan Dobbelaere Ethan Christopher Dobbelaere (born November 14, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder. Professional career An academy product, Dobbelaere signed with the Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders Football ...

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Handwalla Bwana Handwalla Bwana (born June 25, 1999) is a Somali professional footballer who plays for Memphis 901 on loan from Nashville SC of Major League Soccer. Early life Bwana was born in Mombasa, Kenya but spent six years of his childhood at a refugee ca ...

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Josh Atencio Joshua Ryan "Josh" Atencio (born January 31, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC. Career Atencio joined the Seattle Sounders FC academy in 2016. He made hi ...

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Top assists

Nick Hinds Nicholas Hinds (born October 15, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Career Youth Hinds began his youth career with Plantation FC and Kendell SC before joining ...

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Disciplinary record

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Aleks Berkolds Aleksander Berkolds (born 27 April 1996) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a defender. Career Tacoma Defiance Berkolds was selected by the Seattle Sounders in the third round of the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, but would not sign a ...

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Honors and awards

Goal of the Week

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Team of the Week

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USL 20 under 20

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Transfers

For transfers in, dates listed are when Tacoma Defiance officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Defiance officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Tacoma Defiance roster.

In

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Out

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References

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