International Portland Select Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in

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playing in the

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History

In late 2013, the NPSL announced Spartans Futbol Club as an expansion team ahead of the 2014 season in the then-newly created Northwest Conference. The rest of the conference was made up of

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, and

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. The team won the inaugural Northwest Conference title by going undefeated through 12 regular season games (10-2-0). The Spartans fell in their first playoff game against

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, 3–1. Ahead of the 2017 season Portland announced a new partnership with French side

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. The partnership included an officially re-branded of the team as FC Mulhouse Portland and allowed both sides to share "curriculum, methodology and marketing strategies." As a top finishing team from NPSL in 2019, Mulhouse qualified for the

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via an at-large bid. In its first tournament game, the team traveled to California to face local qualifying side

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scored the only goal for Portland as the team lost, 5–1. In January 2020, the NPSL announced that FCM had merged with local amateur side International Portland Select Football Club and re-branded to follow suit. IPS had previously attempted to qualify for the

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in 2016,

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, and

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coming within one win of qualifying on two occasions (2016, 2019).

Stadium

The team plays at Kiggins Bowl Stadium in

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Year-by-year

Honors

* Northwest Conference Champions: 2014 * West Region Champions: 2018

References

External links

* Association football clubs established in 1996 National Premier Soccer League teams Soccer clubs in Oregon 1996 establishments in Oregon Sports teams in Portland, Oregon Soccer clubs in Washington (state) Sports in Vancouver, Washington {{Oregon-footyclub-stub