I was born and bred in England. I'm passionate about football. I'm the Non-League Editor at NSJ, formerly editor of Northern Lights Football and Local Editor of E Pluribus Loonum. I pitch in elsewhere on the site too.
I argued last year that the WPSL North is too big. It's more than 51,000 sq miles, and it remains so, in fact with expansion into Sioux City Iowa, it's got even bigger. So how should we/would I split it? You could do one
Yes, there already IS a First Division, but now there will be two.
WPSL have hit the six team minimum for the D3 professional league they are slating to start next year. Those six are:
How did we get here? The Gateway Conference went straight to its Championship match, and Des Moines United won 2-1 to advance. The North Conference tournament saw Med City FC upset both the #2 seeded Dakota Fusion and the National #1 seeded Duluth on the road to earn their spot.
For more on the results that got us here, click here The rankings featured are the national points-per-game ranking. All Conference Finals are hosted by the higher seed. The NPSL has decided that the Conference Champion title will belong to whoever wins these matches. Amid those we surveyed, the move
How it works: It's a dog's breakfast in the Midwest. Using points-per-game as the decider:(# = National ranking)Top 3 in the Great Lakes qualified (second placed #20 Michigan Rangers, third placed #36 Cleveland SC and top seeded #4 Steel City FC, who received a bye to
This Week Friday Cleveland SC 3-2 Erie Commodores Twelve minutes into the game, Erie broke through after a free kick was deflected for a corner and the corner was headed home by Joe Gasper. It was 1-1 in the seventeenth minute as Janis Schmidt put his foot through a ball
How it works: It's a dog's breakfast in the Midwest. Using points-per-game as the decider:Top 2 in the Gateway qualified (who then play each other for the Conference) Top 3 in the Great Lakes qualified (2 plays 3 and then the winner plays the top
Our survey said... https://twitter.com/Lights_Football/status/1669745556481093638?t=-ctu5FEbkKCX4Mo6Cl4aVw&s=19 This Week Friday Sunflower State FC 2-1 Ehtar Belleville Blake Barrick opened the scoring for Sunflower just before half time, finishing off a defense splitting pass from midfield by Cooper Forcellini. Colin Innes blasted home
This Week Friday Cleveland SC 3-0 FC Columbus Thomas Beck opened the scoring in the Grampa's Cheese Barn Derby in the seventh minute, dribbling in from the left before slotting home. Chris Cvecko made it two in the thirteenth, powering home from close range after a pass along
This Week Friday Des Moines United 2-1 Ehtar Belleville Ehtar took the lead with a deflected chip over the Des Moines United goalkeeper in the thirty-sixth minute from 20 yards out for the only goal of the first half. Lesego Maloma levelled the game in the fifty-fifth minute, picking up
This Week Friday Michigan Rangers 1-2 Erie Commodores Rangers took the lead shortly after a hydration break in the thirty-first minute, as a run down the right was squared to the center and Adam Hanson half-volleyed a ball which had been saved. Commodores equalized after Roberto Lagoa unleashed a shot
This Week Friday Carpathia FC 3-0 Akron City FC Mohamed Hammoud opened the scoring for the home side, finishing off a flowing team move with a shot from the top of the box in the seventh minute. Their lead was doubled in the 12th minute after Alexander Demorow headed home.
This Week Friday Michigan Rangers 1-0 Akron City FC Daire O'Riordan settled an even and open match, opening the NPSL account for Rangers in the 29th minute, after a successful high press and some neat interplay down the left wing culminated in an assist by Adam Hanson. Steel
This week Wednesday Sunflower State FC 1-2 KC Courage A combative Kansas City derby saw the Courage with the better chances in the first half but Sunflower had a counter-attack threat in Mackenzie Dimarco. Neither side were able to breakthrough before the break. Dimarco had a massive chance to put
This week Saturday Steel City FC 2-1 Akron City FC In Steel City's NPSL debut*, all the action came within a ten minute spell at the end of the first half. The home side broke the deadlock in the 36th minute with a penalty after Tate Mohney was
