The Chicago Inferno is an American soccer club based in

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, United States. The team originally played from 2012 to 2014 in the

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, the fourth division of the American soccer pyramid, in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference. In 2015 Chicago Inferno - Crystal Lake was launched as a branch and continues to operate today serving both youth and high school level competitive teams.

History

The Chicago Inferno was founded in 2009 to compete in the

National Soccer League of Chicago The Greater Chicago Soccer League , formerly the National Soccer League (Chicago), formed by the merger of the Chicago Soccer League and International Soccer Football League of Chicago in 1928, is a semi-professional U.S. soccer league which claim ...

. In 2011, the club joined the Great Lakes Division of the

(PDL), one of the top amateur leagues in the country alongside the

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(NPSL), and considered the fourth tier of the

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References

External links

Official Website
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