WPSL Central Regionals Preview
WPSL Central Region Playoffs have arrived: Oklahoma City FC v Union KC and St Croix Legacy v Austin Rise FC. Check out the preview and hear from the clubs involved.
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NPSL Round Up: Week 7-8
The regular season has wrapped for the NPSL North. Next up: The Conference Playoffs.
NPSL North Playoff Preview
Duluth FC have sealed the #1 seed, Siouxland United are #2, Sioux Falls Thunder are #3 and Joy AC are #4. Duluth will play Joy and Siouxland will face Sioux Falls.
NPSL Round Up: Week 6
Vandewalle hits a hat trick for Iowa Demon Hawks and Siouxland United leapfrog Duluth FC to take possession of the top spot in the NPSL North Conference.
NPSL Round Up: Week 5
Wednesday Minnesota Blizzard 1-0 Joy Athletic Club Shannonsider Cian Mcgoey ran all night, frequently ending offside but also popping up on the hour mark as an outlet pass for Carter Hermanson, a former Mpls City Futures product out of St Paul, MN. Mcgoey calmly dispatched the chance and Blizzard collectively
NPSL Round Up: Week 4
Friday Sioux Falls Thunder 0-2 Duluth FC The undefeated BlueGreens took the win after goals from the 57th minute through the Mineiro Felipe Oliveira, who attends Wisconsin-Superior. The game was put beyond doubt by half time substitute, Londoner Harvey McLoughlin (also attending Wisconsin-Superior) in stoppage time at the end of
NPSL Round Up: Week 3
Tuesday Duluth FC 1-0 Minnesota Blizzard FC When you aren't destroying teams, just find a way to win. A draw is possible in this game we love, but that was not to be for the visitors, who conceded a fatal late free kick, 20 yards out on the
NPSL Round Up: Week 2
Wednesday May 21st Sioux Falls Thunder 3-0 Iowa Demon Hawks After a promising opening 10 minutes for the Thunder at Bob Young Field, the Demon Hawks grew into the match. A back-and-forth period finished with the visitors opening the scoring in the 31st minute as Jeanderson Pereira hit the ball
NPSL North kicks-off
Saturday May 10th Sioux Falls Thunder 2-1 Siouxland United Thunder left it late with goals from Sunao Midorikawa in the 82nd minute and Nick North in the 5th minute of second-half stoppage time to reverse the tide of a Siouxland derby which had seen the visitors go ahead in the
MN Blizzard host Vlora FC in an early season Amateur Cup test
Burnsville-based Vlora FC make the short trip to Eagan to face Lakeville-based Minnesota Blizzard FC as this regionalized, national tournament makes its opening visit to Minnesota for this year. Vlora operates a UPSL squad, but they entered the draw as Minnesota Amateur Soccer League members. In that league, they finished
A new North is unveiled by NPSL
There are no brand-new clubs to the North Conference of the NPSL, but it is getting longer and shorter at the same time with Dakota Fusion's hiatus and the entry of former Gateway Conference members Iowa Demon Hawks. Of the four playoff qualifiers from the North in 2024,
NPSL National Semifinals: El Farolito 3-0 Duluth FC
Duluth FC finished the regular season as the 33rd ranked team by points-per-game, the metric used to determine hosting priority for the playoffs. It is eerily similar to the last time they made this stage. Their odyssey has so far taken them on a 500 mile round trip to Fargo
NPSL Midwest Playoff Final
Steel City reached this stage last year, before falling to eventual champion Tulsa Athletic on penalty kicks. Duluth can reach a bit further back and recall their own Midwest Region Championship in 2018. They came perilously close to the mandatory 10pm lights out (per the broadcast crew) but in the
NPSL Midwest Playoff Semifinal
Iowa Demon Hawks 0-2 Duluth FC Duluth FC and Iowa Demon Hawks kicked off from Indianola High School, about 30 minutes south of Des Moines for the right to face the region's #1 seed, Steel City FC in Pittsburgh. Duluth FC went 7-1-4 in the regular season and
NPSL North Playoff Semi Finals
Wednesday (#= Conference seeding/National ranking) #1/6 Dakota Fusion 2-1 #4/38 Joy Athletic Club Fusion v Joy is the league's stingiest defense against the joint Golden Boot winner Philip Caputo. It took Joy Athletic 20 mins to register a chance, in a first 40 minutes dominated by
NPSL Round-Up: July 1-6
Tuesday: Siouxland United 3-1 Sioux Falls Thunder A 43rd minute goal by Lucas Foreman and two from Ben Shields were countered by a goal by Simon Woods for Thunder. Dakota Fusion 6-1 Minnesota TwinStars A strong wind blew left to right, in the faces of Fusion, at the backs of