NPSL Round Up: Week 7-8
The regular season has wrapped for the NPSL North. Next up: The Conference Playoffs.
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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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
NISA Independent Cup Update
It took a few months, but Milwaukee Torrent have clarified their stance on the NISA Independent Cup which they won (by default). The default cost the club a game for which tickets had been sold, a sequence which left the club feeling aggrieved and a lingering impression of a mess
NISA Independent Cup Review
Five amateur sides (Vlora FC, Dakota Fusion, Milwaukee Torrent, United Stars Soccer and Inter Detroit) joined metro Detroit's Michigan Stars in the Great Lakes region of this year's NISA Independent Cup. The regional champions get a trophy but do not meet in any kind of play-
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
Photo Gallery: Aurora 2 vs NOSC Blast (UPSL Women Conference Championship)
Our photo gallery from the UPSL Women Conference Championship between NOSC Blast and Aurora 2 is finally up!
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