American soccer writing, history & data.
We've made some major updates to the site. The biggest of those is adding player (and manager) tables. The first league to add this data to the site is the 1894 season of the American League of Professional Football. The ALPF and the American Association of Professional Football both launched short-lived seasons in the fall of 1894. Those two leagues are considered the first fully professional soc...
We've added a ton of leagues and clubs to the site since our relaunch in October of 2020. We've also added a blog which we've been using to give short summaries of each of the league seasons as we've uploaded them. The most recent additions were the St. Louis professional leagues starting at the turn of the 20th century and running through the final season of the St. Louis Soccer League which e...
I've been interested in the history of US soccer for as long as I can remember. When I built the original Soccer Almanac website as a place to compile soccer stats for the major US pro leagues, there were very little resources for that info. But, with the explosion of data analytics, that work is now better done by leagues and their media partners. And, while stats are an important part of the gam...
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