USL San Diego Announces Aug9 “Listening Session” for Local San Diego Soccer Families

Due to overwhelming interest, USL San Diego’s “listening session” on Thursday August 8 reached full capacity. Leadership at USL San Diego has been keen to involve a wide variety of San Diego soccer fandom in the creation of USL San Diego’s identity. Small focus groups have been held over the past few months, and the […]
The State of SoccerCity Today

In December 2016, Major League Soccer (MLS) announced the timelines for the expansion window for the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th teams to join the league that was first founded in 1996. The first 10 years of MLS’ existence were subject various bull and bear surges that saw teams open up in new markets, only […]
SoccerCity Rounds Out Summer with a Series of Events

The SoccerCity San Diego team has earned a reputation for putting on some of the best events around town. Whether it be a watch party, a soccer training session or a river clean up, the people looking to transform the blighted SDCCU Stadium into something special for all of San Diego have continually demonstrated their […]
Steve Brockhoff and Daryl Biggs Join the SoccerNation Podcast

Steve Brockhoff and Daryl Biggs jump on the latest SoccerNation Podcast – powered by soccerloco to talk about the recent news that the SoccerCity San Diego Original Supporters Group is spinning off and becoming member-run. The OSG was actually first started by the SoccerCity team last year as a way to validate interest in their […]
Shannon Mac Millan Joins the SoccerNation Podcast

Welcome back to the SoccerNation Podcast – powered by soccerloco! On today’s episode I’m joined by Shannon Mac Millan, Executive Director of the Del Mar Carmel Valley Sharks youth soccer club in San Diego, California for a conversation about youth soccer in San Diego. We go deep on the details of the DMCV Sharks and […]
Aztecs for SoccerCity Join the SoccerNation Podcast

Welcome back to the latest edition of the SoccerNation Podcast powered by soccerloco! Today I caught up with Nick Merritt and Will Griffith to talk about the Aztecs for SoccerCity movement that they kicked off along with another student on the Mesa. These young men feel strongly about the SoccerCity San Diego expansion bid and […]
SoccerCity SD’s Footy For All Program Scores Big

In December of 2017, the SoccerCity SD team announced a groundbreaking partnership with the YMCA of San Diego County, paving the way for 500 children to play in their local YMCA leagues. Many of these children are participating in team sports for the first time, and the Footy For All Program is providing a way […]
SoccerCity Kicks off Footy for All Campaign in Conjunction with the YMCA of San Diego County

For a bunch of rich guys from La Jolla, the FS Investors group behind SoccerCity sure know how to have a good laugh. When the proponents of the San Diego MLS Expansion bid opened up voting for a potential name in March of this year, no one expected the process to go viral, and no […]
One on One with SoccerCity SD’s Steve Altman

When you ask Google about Steve Altman you’ll likely learn all manner of things about intellectual property, computer chip processors and San Diego’s largest company, Qualcomm. You’re also likely to learn about Rock the Cure and the philanthropy that the Altman family has participated in when it comes to combating a disease that has infiltrated […]
SoccerCity SD Launches #WaitForSD Campaign

Since the long-lost days of June 2017 FS Investors, the people behind the movement to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to San Diego, have been quite quiet. The SoccerCity silence was broken Monday when Nick Stone, spokesperson for FS Investors, met with soccer fans and media personnel just north of the city proper in […]
Foody McFoody Face is Born

There has been a tremendous amount of soccer talk of late in San Diego. SoccerCity SD, potential expansion clubs in MLS, USL, NWSL and NASL have all been occupying headlines in recent weeks and months. Amidst the alphabet soup of abbreviations, city council meetings and fervent soccer support, a common theme has emerged. San Diego […]
Episode 32 – SoccerCity Slotted for 2018 Election, Actual Soccer and a Tribute to Tony DiCicco

In the latest episode of the #SNPod, Nate and Dike discuss the inevitable “doom” of SoccerCity, San Diego City Council meeting meanings, the characters in the larger San Diego narrative and what comes next for professional soccer in America’s Finest City. The guys then turn their talk to the soccer we currently have here in […]
SoccerCity Proposal Penciled in for 2018 Election by City Council

For the third successive Monday, soccer fans in San Diego crowded the chambers of City Council in the hope that their combined force of will could sway the elected representatives of the nine districts of the City of San Diego to rule in favor of the SoccerCity proposal. Despite support from the mayor and a […]
Women Talking Football – Presented by SoccerNation: Landon Donovan

Landon Donovan joins Carrie Taylor, host of Women talking Football to discuss the current status of the SoccerCity initiative and the importance on the June 19th City Council meeting. The mayor of San Diego, Kevin Faulconer has done all he can do to ensure the City Council is in a position to schedule the special […]
Opinion: San Diego Must Have the Opportunity to Vote on SoccerCity in 2017

City Council has run out of excuses to deny the people their right to vote on SoccerCity. On Monday, San Diego council members voted 8-1 to approve a budget that removed a $5M line item to hold a special election. The reasoning behind that can be boiled down to two main objections; cost and Measure […]
Down But Not Out – SoccerCity Rallies After Disappointing First Half

Right now SoccerCity fans in San Diego must feel like they’re down 2-0 at halftime in the first leg of the semi-final of MLS Expansion Cup 2017 after the San Diego City Council voted 8-1 Monday night to approve the Annual Budget for Fiscal year 2018, beginning July 1. Going into the Budget Meeting, the atmosphere […]