TAMPA, Fla. – The USL Championship today announced its conference alignment for the league’s 2019 regular season. The league will feature 36 teams across two conferences in the upcoming season, with the clubs set to embark on a 34-game regular-season schedule that will be conducted over 33 weeks and open on the weekend of March 8-10, 2019.
Four of the league’s expansion arrivals will join the Eastern Conference, with Birmingham Legion FC, Hartford Athletic, Loudoun United FC and Memphis 901 FC joining the conference led by defending USL Cup champion Louisville City FC.
The Eastern Conference also features two new arrivals in Saint Louis FC and the Swope Park Rangers, who make the move after both reaching the USL Cup Playoffs in the Western Conference a season ago.
The remaining three expansion clubs – Austin Bold FC, El Paso Locomotive FC and New Mexico United – join the Western Conference for their inaugural seasons. The addition of Austin and El Paso to the conference gives the USL Championship four clubs in Texas for the first time, while New Mexico and El Paso are set to engage in a strong regional rivalry with the clubs separated by just over 250 miles.
2019 USL Championship Conference Alignment
Eastern Conference Western Conference
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ATL UTD 2 Bethlehem Steel FC Birmingham Legion FC Charleston Battery Charlotte Independence Hartford Athletic Indy Eleven Loudoun United FC Louisville City FC Memphis 901 FC Nashville SC New York Red Bulls II North Carolina FC Ottawa Fury FC Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC Saint Louis FC Swope Park Rangers Tampa Bay Rowdies |
Austin Bold FC Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC |
Home openers for the 2019 USL Championship season and the full 2019 regular season schedule will be announced at a future date.
TAMPA, Fla. – The USL Championship today announced its conference alignment for the league’s 2019 regular season. The league will feature 36 teams across two conferences in the upcoming season, with the clubs set to embark on a 34-game regular-season schedule that will be conducted over 33 weeks and open on the weekend of March 8-10, 2019.
Four of the league’s expansion arrivals will join the Eastern Conference, with Birmingham Legion FC, Hartford Athletic, Loudoun United FC and Memphis 901 FC joining the conference led by defending USL Cup champion Louisville City FC.
The Eastern Conference also features two new arrivals in Saint Louis FC and the Swope Park Rangers, who make the move after both reaching the USL Cup Playoffs in the Western Conference a season ago.
The remaining three expansion clubs – Austin Bold FC, El Paso Locomotive FC and New Mexico United – join the Western Conference for their inaugural seasons. The addition of Austin and El Paso to the conference gives the USL Championship four clubs in Texas for the first time, while New Mexico and El Paso are set to engage in a strong regional rivalry with the clubs separated by just over 250 miles.
2019 USL Championship Conference Alignment
Eastern Conference Western Conference
|
ATL UTD 2 Bethlehem Steel FC Birmingham Legion FC Charleston Battery Charlotte Independence Hartford Athletic Indy Eleven Loudoun United FC Louisville City FC Memphis 901 FC Nashville SC New York Red Bulls II North Carolina FC Ottawa Fury FC Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC Saint Louis FC Swope Park Rangers Tampa Bay Rowdies |
Austin Bold FC Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC |
Home openers for the 2019 USL Championship season and the full 2019 regular season schedule will be announced at a future date.
