Defunct Soccer Leagues in the United States - Women's United Soccer Association, North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Women's United Soccer Association, North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League, Western Soccer Alliance, A-League, St. Louis Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League, American Professional Soccer League, International Soccer League, Eastern Professional Soccer League, German-American Soccer League, National Association Football League, Continental Indoor Soccer League, Xtreme Soccer League, World Indoor Soccer League, Southern New England Soccer League, American League of Professional Football, United Soccer League, USISL Select League, Lone Star Soccer Alliance, Eastern Indoor Soccer League, National Soccer League of New York, North American Professional Soccer League. Excerpt: The American Soccer League has been a name used by three different professional soccer leagues in the United States. The first American Soccer League was established in 1921 by the merger of teams from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League. For several years it was the second most popular professional sports league in the country. Disputes with the United States Football Association and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 led to the league's collapse in spring 1933. That summer, the second American Soccer League was created on a smaller scale and with smaller budgets. This league existed until over-expansion and financial limitations led to its collapse in 1983. In 1988, the third American Soccer League was created as an east coast counterpart to the west coast-based Western Soccer Alliance. The third iteration of the ASL lasted only two seasons, merging with the WSA in 1990 to form the American Professional Soccer League. The original American Soccer League, operating between 1921 and 1933, was the first significant, viable, professional soccer league in the United S...