Following four seasons in the second-division United Soccer League Championship, The San Diego Loyal Soccer Club will fold after this season.
Following four seasons in the second-division United Soccer League Championship, The San Diego Loyal Soccer Club will fold after this season, club chairman Andrew Vassiliadis announced Thursday.
"For those of you who've gotten to know me, spent some time talking to me, you know how much this hurts for me to say," said Andrew Vassiliadis, Loyal Chairman, in an emotional video message announcing the team's final season on Thursday."I love our city, I'm born and raised here and I'll always be loyal to San Diego."In May, when Major League Soccer announced the expansion of the league to San Diego, Vassiliadis said the team wasn't"going anywhere.
USMNT legend Landon Donovan was previously head coach of the Loyal, and was named executive vice president of soccer operations in December 2022. That same month, SD Loyal entered a goodwill partnership with Lincoln City F.C. of Lincolnshire, England.
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