My proposal for a five-tiered, relegatory professional soccer system in the US. Details in the thread

imagine playing "fifth-tier" american soccer

how the fuck do you plan to keep those clubs afloat when they are hopscotching from brownsville, tx to mankato, mn when they are playing in front of 200 people for $5/pop?

too many teams

also the real answer is to start a new league. leaving MLS in place only begs for the same people to fuck everything up on the same cycle

>how the fuck do you plan to keep those clubs afloat when they are hopscotching from brownsville, tx to mankato, mn when they are playing in front of 200 people for $5/pop?
they exist right now, how are they staying afloat right now?

>San Diego 1904
based San Diego for commemorating our world championship

EASTERN CONFERENCE:

>North Atlantic Division
1. Bethlehem Steel FC
2. Hartford Athletic
3. Montclair Red Bulls
4. New York Cosmos
5. North Carolina FC
6. Penn FC
7. Richmond Kickers

>South Atlantic Division
1. Charlotte FC
2. Charlotte Independence
3. Lawrenceville United
4. Miami United
5. Puerto Rico FC
6. South Georgia Tormenta FC
7. Tampa Bay Rowdies

>Great Lakes Division
1. Chicago (Ricketts has now fucked the entire system)
2. FC Cincinatti
3. Indy Eleven
4. Milwaukee
5. Ottawa Fury FC
6. Pittsburgh Riverhounds
7. Toronto FC II

WESTERN CONFERENCE:
>Trans-Mississippi Division
1. Austin Bold FC
2. Birmingham Legion FC
3. Chattanooga FC
4. Memphis 901
5. Rio Grande Valley FC Toros
6. St Louis FC
7. San Antonio FC

>Frontier Division
1. Colorado Springs Switchbacks
2. Las Vegas Lights FC
3. OKC Energy FC
4. Omaha
5. Real Monarchs
6. Swope Park Rangers
7. Tulsa Roughnecks FC

>Pacific Division
1. Fresno FC
2. LA Galaxy II
3. Oakland East Bay
4. Orange County SC
5. Portland Timbers II
6. Reno 1868 FC
7. Tacoma Sounders FC

Side note, some of these team names are total garbo.

>mankato, mn
use the funds from all the chlamydia testing lmao

5 tiers though? I know it goes 3, but some well to do assholes are going to have the eat the bills

These teams already exist, and many of them already are travelling like that. This system would actually be an improvement because they would NOT have to travel so far at that level except in very special occasions.

MLS is really being kept in name only for brand recognition. As a league, it would function completely differently to the current system.

Posting in a MLS theory test thread, nobody has this much tism

Not the 'tism, I just had a lot of time on my hands this week.

I approve of this impressive autism.

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just fap like the rest of us

So, the USL works with a rival conference system like the first league, but operates differently (North Atlantic-Pacific, South Atlantic-TransMississippi, Great Lakes-Frontier).

A team in the USL plays the other 6 teams in its division twice, the other 14 teams in its conference once, and the 7 teams in its rival division once, for a total of 33 games.

The top team in each division will then compete in a round-robin tournament for the USL championship, with the best team in each conference being promoted. The worst team in each division will be relegated. This is where the biggest issue will come in because each division in the MLS and USL will need to be slightly adjusted each year, but only slightly.

It won't matter American divegrass fans will still only bandwagon Fly Emirates or Samsungs or whatever the fuck they're called in Europe. They don't give a fuck about local clubs

*anime villain voice* So you believe you are more autistic than me?

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Somehow, I have lost my proposal records for the third and fourth tier, so I can't show you the divisions, but in terms of operation they work pretty much identical to the USL, just with more teams in each division, and the divisions grouped closer together.

The fifth tier is different, and really functions as a hybrid of a national and regional league. Each conference is split into two regions, and each region into three divisions. The regular season is played entirely within the region, and so the national league aspect really only comes into play in terms of post-season play.

Why the fuck not adopt an A League, B League, C League, D League etc like every other major league in the world

american sports fans are too fickle, as soon as a team got relegated, it would be a death sentence

it's better than this conference stuff, what's the point in having all these shit tier teams play each other with no clear tournament bracket

that's a bit unfair to the yellow and green teams as they have to travel considerable more than the blue and especially pink teams

EASTERN CONFERENCE

East Region:
>New England Division
1. Black Rock FC
2. FC Boston
3. GPS Portland Phoenix
4. Seacoast United Phantoms
5. Western Mass Pioneers

>Metropolitan Division
1. AC Connecticut
2. FA Euro New York
3. Long Island Rough Riders
4. New Jersey Red Bulls U-23
5. Ocean City Nor'easters
6. Westchester Flames

>Mid-Atlantic Division
1. Charlottesville Alliance FC
2. Evergreen FC
3. Lehigh Valley United
4. Lionsbridge FC
5. Reading United AC
6. West Virginia Chaos

South Region:
>Carolinas Division
1. Carolina Dynamo
2. Charlotte Eagles
3. Greenville Triumph SC
4. Myrtle Beach Mutiny
5. SC United Bantams
6. Tobacco Road FC

>Sunshine Division
1. FC Miami City
2. IMG Academy Bradenton
3. Lakeland Tropics
4. Palm Beach Suns FC
5. South Florida Surf
6. Weston FC

>Deep South Division
1. Birmingham Hammers
2. Mississippi Brilla
3. Peachtree City MOBA
4. SIMA Aguilas
5. The Villages SC
6. Tri-Cities Otters

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Midwest Region:
>Central Division
1. Cincinnati Dutch Lions
2. Dayton Dutch Lions
3. Derby City Rovers
4. Lansing United
5. Memphis City SC
6. Michigan Bucks

>Great Plains Division
1. Chicago FC United
2. Des Moines Menace
3. Kaw Valley FC
4. Saint Louis Lions
5. Thunder Bay Chill
6. WSA Winnepeg

>Red River Division
1. AHFC Royals
2. Brazos Valley Cavalry FC
3. Corpus Christi FC
4. FC Cleburne
5. Houston FC
6. OKC Energy U-23

West Region:
>Southwestern Division
1. Albuquerque Sol FC
2. Colorado Pride Switchbacks U-23
3. Colorado Rapids U-23
4. FC Tucson
5. Ogden City FC
6. San Diego Zest FC

>Sierra Division
1. FC Golden State Force
2. Fresno FC U-23
3. Orange County SC U-23
4. Santa Cruz Breakers
5. Southern California Seahorses
6. Ventura County Fusion

>Cascade Division
1. Lane United FC
2. Portland Timbers U-23
3. San Francisco City FC
4. Seattle Sounders FC U-23
5. TSS FC Rovers
6. Victoria Highlanders

fuck off dumbass. there are already lower division teams with fans

The ASL season is shorter, taking in consideration that this is one level above amateur. Each team will play every other team in their region. After this, the best team in each division will participate in a 12-team playoff (top 4 teams get a first round bye). The worst team in each division gets relegated out of the professional tiers, and replaced by the best amateur team from their region.

bump for effort post

There are minor league teams for literally every sport in this country all across America with lots of fans.

>like every other major league in the world
Answered your own question. The American system as it is now is completely unlike any other major league in the world, and you can't fit a square peg in a round hole, so to make a fair system would take some creativity.

The way I see it my proposal could either completely change the way the game is played on a global scale, or completely destroy any hope for a true major American league (I consider it a win either way because my favorite team ends up in Tier 3 in this proposal).

>Vancouver
leave my fucking city alone faggot.
we don't want your gay fucking divegrass

So, that's my proposal in detail. Thoughts?

Its nice, but the US barely cares enough for one league (MLS) let alone have the money for the interest from people to have three tiers

Of course. This isn't a proposal for an overnight "change everything" restructure. It's just a hypothetical idea about a creative way to restructure our FA if >we ever had the interest.

that's cool and all but USA is a massive country for a sport that most don't care.
too bad really

Are these the float themes for the pride parade?

Can we please stop including the leafs in these MLS things? Unlike in baseball and Basketball they have their own leagues so they should play in their own fucking league.

Nobody in the US wants to see this relegation shit, nigga

Real soccer fans do. Not backwater alabamians like yourself

I do.

Minor League baseball teams have been doing it for 100 years.

That's how all American sports work. Most of the western US is a whole lot of empty land and national parks so there's naturally going to be a lot more travelling before you get to big cities.

WORLD LEAGUE

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we already have far more than three tiers actually

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_soccer_league_system