The 2021 USL League Two season is the 27th season of the
USL League Two, the top pre-professional
soccer
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league in the United States, since its establishment in 1995. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The regular season started on May 5 and concluded on July 18. 75 teams participated in this season. The Southwest Division teams elected not to play due to
COVID-19 concerns.
Team changes
New teams
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FC Málaga City
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(LaGrangeville, NY)
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FC Motown (Morristown, NJ)
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FC Wichita
FC Wichita is a soccer club based in Wichita, Kansas that plays in USL League Two's Heartland Conference. The club was a member of the Heartland Conference in the National Premier Soccer League, a national semi-professional league at the fourth ...
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Fort Wayne FC
Fort Wayne Football Club is a pre-professional soccer club in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. The club currently competes in the Valley Division of the USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. Fort Wayne FC played hom ...
*
Kalamazoo FC
Kalamazoo FC (KZFC) is a semi-professional soccer club from Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The club competes in USL League Two, the fourth-tier soccer league of the American soccer pyramid. Soisson-Rapacz-Clason Field (also known as Mayor's ...
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Kings Hammer FC
Kings Hammer FC is a pre-professional soccer club that plays in Cincinnati, Ohio and based in Covington, Kentucky competing in the Great Lakes Division in USL League Two.
History
The club was founded in 2013 through the merger of Kings Soccer ...
(Covington, KY)
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Little Rock Rangers
The Little Rock Rangers Soccer Club is an American soccer team based in Little Rock, Arkansas. The team was founded in 2016 and played its inaugural season in 2016. The team plays in the USL League Two, a national semi-professional league at the f ...
*
Morris Elite SC
Morris Elite Soccer Club is an American soccer club based in Union, New Jersey that competes in the Metropolitan Division of USL League Two. They will begin play in the 2021 USL League Two season
The 2021 USL League Two season is the 27th sea ...
(Madison, NJ)
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New Jersey Copa FC
New Jersey Copa FC are an American pro-am soccer club fielded by the soccer/football academy FC Copa Academy from Metuchen, New Jersey. It was founded in 2004 and fields men's, women's, and youth teams in a number of different amateur and semi-p ...
(Metuchen, NJ)
*
PDX FC
PDX Football Club is an American soccer club from Portland, Oregon, United States. The club was established in 2017 and currently plays in USL League Two. The club previously played in the National Premier Soccer League's West Region, Northwest C ...
(Portland, OR)
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Real Central New Jersey (Mercer County, NJ)
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Project 51O
Project 51O is a soccer club from Oakland, California competing in the Southwest Division of USL League Two. They are the reserve club of USL Championship club Oakland Roots SC. The name 51O is partly inspired by Oakland's 510 area code, althou ...
(Oakland, CA)
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Round Rock SC
Round Rock SC is a semi-pro soccer club in Round Rock, Texas competing in the Lone Star Division of the Southern Conference in USL League Two. They previously played in the United Premier Soccer League in 2018 and 2019.
History
Founded in 2 ...
(Round Rock. TX)
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St. Louis Scott Gallagher SC (Fenton, MO)
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Tampa Bay United
Tampa Bay United Soccer Club is a soccer club from Tampa, Florida that plays in the Southeast Division in USL League Two.
History
The club was founded as a youth soccer club in Tampa, Florida, where they are the largest youth team in the city. ...
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Toledo Villa FC
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 ...
Departing teams
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Cincinnati Dutch Lions
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Daytona Rush SC
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GPS Portland Phoenix
GPS Portland Phoenix was an American soccer team based in Portland, Maine. Founded in 2009, the team played in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference. It has not played ...
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Louisville City FC U23
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New Mexico United U23
New Mexico United U23 is a development soccer team under the parent club New Mexico United based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The team will compete in the Mountain Division of the Western Conference of USL League Two, the fourth tier of the America ...
*
Sarasota Metropolis FC
Sarasota Metropolis FC is a soccer club competing in the USL League Two. 2019
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*
Sound FC
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Tampa Bay Rowdies U23
The Tampa Bay Rowdies U23 were an American semi-professional soccer team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. They were the reserve club of USL Championship club Tampa Bay Rowdies.
The club is part of the Rowdies Youth Network, which consists of t ...
Name changes
*Evergreen FC to
Northern Virginia FC
Northern Virginia FC (formerly Northern Virginia Royals and Evergreen FC) is an American soccer club from Leesburg, Virginia competing in USL League Two, USL W League, Eastern Premier Soccer League and the Major Arena Soccer League 3.
The clu ...
*TFA Willamette to
OVF Alliance
*Treasure Coast Tritons to
FC Florida U23
*West Virginia Alliance FC to
West Virginia United
West Virginia United (formerly West Virginia Chaos and West Virginia Alliance FC) is an American soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily us ...
Teams
Note: Teams
lined out are on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Standings
Eastern Conference
Northeast Division
Mid Atlantic Division
Metropolitan Division
Central Conference
Great Lakes Division
Heartland Division
Mid South Division
Southern Conference
South Atlantic Division
Deep South Division
Southeast Division
Western Conference
Mountain Division
Northwest Division
Tie breakers
*1) Head-to-head record based on total points in League games.
*2) Points Per Game = Total points won / Total games played
*3) Total wins in League games.
*4) Goal difference in League games. If number of games is unequal, the Game Average will be used.
*5) Goals scored in League games.
*6) Total points within smallest group. If number of games is unequal, then point percentage will be used.
*7) Ranking based on points earned against top four group finishers. This tiebreaker will not be used if four (4) or fewer teams comprise the group. If number of games is unequal, then point percentage applies.
*8) Point percentage outside / smallest division or conference in League games.
*9) Total points in all regular season and Open Cup qualifying games combined. If number of games is unequal, then point percentage applies.
*10) FIFA Fair Play – Team with fewest disciplinary points in League games. (If number of games is unequal, points will be divided by games played to arrive at a common basis for comparison).
*11) Lottery conducted by USL League Two.
Playoffs
Bracket
USL League Two Championship
Championship MVP: Manel Busquets (
DMM)
Awards
All-League and All-Conference Teams
Eastern Conference
F: Tyler Bagley (
BOS) *,
Simon Becher (
OCN), Amara Sesay (
MAN)
M: Zemedkun Rodriguez (
CSR), Conor Bradley (
WCU), Okan Golge (
NJC), Ryan Becher (
REA
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Places
* Rea, Lombardy, in Italy
* Rea, Missouri, United States
* River Rea, a river in Birmingham, England
* River Rea, Shropshire, a river in Shropshire, England
* Rea, Hungarian name of Reea village in Totești Commun ...
)
D: Maurice Williams (
NYR), Shane Bradley (
WCU), Luca Mellor (
WCU) *
G: Jan Hoffelner (
NJC)
Central Conference
F: Cyrus Harmon (
KAL) *, Jalen James (
MBR), Pol Monells (
TEX)
M: Manel Busquets (
DMM), Daniel Barlow (
KHM KHM could refer to:
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*Khmer language, ISO 639 code
*Cambodia, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
*KHM (band), later the Clayborne Family
KHM is an abbreviation of:
*King's Harbour Master
*''Kinder-und Hausmärchen'', code for ...
), Daire O’Riordan (
KAL) *, Harvey Slade (
FCB)
D: Jordan Skelton (
DMM) *, George Proctor (
FCB), Paul Efang (
KAL)
G: Alejandro Chavarria (
MBR)
Southern Conference
F: Alexis Ledoux (
SGT), Charles Touche (
LIO), Nicolas Molina (
WVU) *
M: Arnaud Baron (
SCU) *, Joao Gomiero (
NCF) *, Gabriel Cabral (
SGT) *, Daniel Oliveira (
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* Vertically integrated liquid, an estimate of the mass of precipitation within a cloud
* Flanders Institute for Logistics (VIL), a non-profit organization by the Flemish government
* The IATA code for Dakhla Airport
...
)
D: Alex Henderson (
SCU), Toby Sims (
SCU) *, Cristobal Molina (
NCF)
G: Drew Romig (
SGT) *
Western Conference
F: Ivan Mykhailenko (
POR), Jose Carlos González (
LAN
Lan or LAN may also refer to:
Science and technology
* Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics
* Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in sp ...
), Evan Hoover (
OVF)
M: David Brog (
POR), Jose Sosa (
POR), Wesley Frankel (
OVF), Henry Cromack (
LAN
Lan or LAN may also refer to:
Science and technology
* Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics
* Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in sp ...
)
D:
Esai Easley
Esai Easley (born May 9, 2000) is an American soccer player.
Career Youth
Easley born in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii played club soccer for local side Kona Crush, before heading to Europe in 2013 for trials with Manchester City, and again in 2014 fo ...
(
POR), Emory Rapaport (
POR), Carter Payne (
PDX)
G: Albert Escuin (
LAN
Lan or LAN may also refer to:
Science and technology
* Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics
* Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in sp ...
)
''
* denotes All-League player''
References
External links
USL League Two website
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2021
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2021 in American soccer leagues
2021 in Canadian soccer
Association football events postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic