The Boston Tea Men were an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

team based in

North Andover, Massachusetts North Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 30,915. History Native Americans inhabited what is now northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonizati ...

, United States. Founded in 2009, the team played in the

National Premier Soccer League The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is an American men's association football, soccer league. The league is officially affiliated to the United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) and has automatic qualification for the U.S. Open Cup. ...

(NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the

American Soccer Pyramid The United States soccer league system is a series of professional and amateur association football, soccer leagues based, in whole or in part, in the United States. Although sometimes called the American soccer pyramid, teams and leagues are no ...

, in the Northeast Atlantic Division. The team played its home games in the stadium on the campus of

Merrimack College Merrimack College is a Private university, private Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian university in North Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. It en ...

. The team's colors are white, blue and red. the team appears to have folded, with the NPSL website no longer listing it nor its own website being active.

History

The Tea Men are a quasi-reincarnation of the former

New England Tea Men The New England Tea Men were an American professional soccer team based in the Greater Boston metropolitan area. They played in the North American Soccer League (1968–1984), North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. Their home ve ...

, who played in the old

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League (NASL) was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984. It is considered the first soccer league to be successful on a national scale in the ...

from 1978 to 1980 and still have a strong recognition in the Boston soccer community.

Players

2010 Roster

''Source:''

Year-by-year

Head coaches

* Tony Martone (2010–present)

Stadia

* Stadium at

;

(2010–present)

References

External links

Official Site

NPSL Official Site
Association football clubs established in 2009 National Premier Soccer League teams Soccer clubs in Massachusetts 2009 establishments in Massachusetts North Andover, Massachusetts Sports in Essex County, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-footyclub-stub