Legacy 76 Explained

Clubname:Virginia Legacy
Fullname:Legacy
Nickname:The Legacy
Stadium:James City County Stadium Wanner Stadium
Williamsburg, Virginia
Capacity:3,000
Chrtitle:Owner
Chairman:Virginia Legacy Soccer Club
Mgrtitle:Head Coach – Kevin Darcy
Operations Director:[Alex Spirn]
League:National Premier Soccer League
Season:2009
Position:8th, Mid Atlantic (USL PDL)
Playoffs: DNQ
Current:2018 NPSL season
Website:http://www.valegacysoccer.com/NPSL/NPSLnews/index_E.html
American:true
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Legacy is an American soccer team based in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. The team plays in the Mid-Atlantic Conference of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.

The team was founded in 1976 as Williamsburg Soccer Club. It played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), considered roughly equal to the NPSL, until 2009, after which the franchise folded and the team left the league. In June 2013, it was announced that the club would re-join the fourth tier for the 2014 season in the NPSL.

The team plays its home games in James City County Stadium-Wanner Stadium. The team's colors are white, red and black.

History

The Williamsburg Soccer Club was founded as an amateur sports association serving the local community in 1976. In 2001, the club joined the United Soccer Leagues (USL), creating a team franchised in the Premier Development League (PDL).[1] The team was known as Williamsburg Legacy until January 2007, when Williamsburg Soccer Club merged with the nearby Colonial Football Club to form the Virginia Legacy Soccer Club. The PDL team then changed its name to Virginia Legacy to reflect the merger.

The Legacy had a successful series of early years in the PDL, earning first or second-place finishes in their division. Following the 2009 season in which the club finished eighth, the team folded but continued to remain active as a youth and community soccer organization.

On June 4, 2013, it was announced that the Legacy would re-join the fourth tier of American soccer, this time in the alternative National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), to begin play in the Mid-Atlantic Conference in 2014.[2] [3] In 2014, the team announced it was rebranding to Legacy 76 to reflect the year of its founding.[4]

Year-by-year

YearDivisionLeagueRegular seasonPlayoffsOpen Cup
20024USL PDL1st, Mid AtlanticConference SemifinalsDid not qualify
20034USL PDL2nd, Mid AtlanticConference SemifinalsDid not qualify
20044USL PDL2nd, Mid AtlanticConference SemifinalsDid not qualify
20054USL PDL6th, Mid AtlanticDid not qualifyDid not qualify
20064USL PDL2nd, Mid AtlanticConference SemifinalsDid not qualify
20074USL PDL3rd, Mid AtlanticDid not qualifyDid not qualify
20084USL PDL4th, Mid AtlanticDid not qualifyDid not qualify
20094USL PDL8th, Mid AtlanticDid not qualifyDid not qualify
On Hiatus from 2010 to 2013
20144NPSL4th, Mid-AtlanticDid not qualifyDid not qualify
20154NPSL5th, Mid-AtlanticDid not qualifyDid not qualify
20164NPSL2nd, Mid-AtlanticRegional semifinalsDid not qualify

Honors

Head coaches

Stadiums

Average attendance

Attendance stats are calculated by averaging each team's self-reported home attendances from the historical match archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20100105175057/http://www.uslsoccer.com/history/index_E.html.

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080725185146/http://www.valegacysoccer.com/pdl/history.html History of the Virginia Legacy Premier Development Team
  2. News: VIRGINIA LEGACY JOINS THE NPSL . NationalPremierSoccerLeague.com . June 4, 2013 . December 29, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131231001750/http://www.npsl.info/home/725690.html . December 31, 2013 . dead .
  3. News: EXPANDING LEGACY . DCSoccerNews.com . June 4, 2013 . December 29, 2013.
  4. Web site: Virginia Legacy brands NPSL team Legacy 76 — Soccer Wire. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140410180817/http://www.soccerwire.com/news/am-men/virginia-legacy-brands-npsl-team-legacy-76/. 2014-04-10.