General Soccer Discussion

This is the place for discussion of club soccer around the world.

For the United States, talk Major League Soccer...England has the Premier League, etc.

Talk away!

Thanks CG, great idea!

Ahem... it is football!

I'm pleased this World Cup seems to have heightened the interest of the sport in the States . So I'll take this opportunity to promote the Champions League if you're looking for my Football action now that the World Cup is over.

The Champions League is quite simply the best club competition on earth, the best club teams across Europe compete over a season to be crowned best club in Europe, the football is exciting and the best you'll see anywhere. So yeah, highly recommend following the Champions League next season .

BARCELONA, AHHHHHH!! JKJKJKJK Euroope has the best teams, I hope USA can win the World Cup in the future!

I didn't have to do biology for a week lol . Newcastle FTW !!!!

MANCHESTER UNITED!!!

I thought Rickwood Field in Birmingham (Alabama) was old (1910), then I come to learn some of these European Stadiums have been around since before 1900? That does shock me, our oldest stadium was built in 1903.

WOW

And due to my lack of anything else constructive to do I even made a list...
Premier League Stadia by age

1870’s
Stamford Bridge- Chelsea

1880’s
Ewood Park- Blackburn Rovers
Anfield- Liverpool
Molineux Stadium- Wolverhampton Wanderers

1890’s
Bloomfield Road- Blackpool
Craven Cottage- Fulham
Goodison Park- Everton
St James' Park- Newcastle United
Villa Park- Ashton Villa
White Hart Lane- Tottenham Hotspur

1900’s
Boleyn Ground- West Ham Utd.
St Andrew's-Birmingham City
The Hawthorns- West Bromwich Albion F.C.

1910’s
Old Trafford- Manchester Utd.

1990’s
DW Stadium- Wigan Athletic
Britannia Stadium- Stroke City
Reebok Stadium- Bolton Wanderers
Stadium of Light- Sunderland

2000’s
City of Manchester Stadium- Manchester City
Emirates Stadium- Arsenal

London Olympic Stadium now, WOOT looking gooood!!

Sorry all you limey lovers9(sorry mike lol)but my Passion for footy resides to the North of England

CELTIC FC all the way no other

Don't root for Celtic just refuse to root for Rangers i'm more than a wee bit irish

Manchester United woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Current MLS stadiums by age

1942 (68 years)
Robertson Stadium - Houston Dynamo (2006–present) since 2006

1959 (51 years)
Lockhart Stadium - Miami Fusion (1998–2001) between 1998 and 2001

1961 (49 years)
RFK Stadium - D.C. United (1996–present) since 1996

1962 (48 years)
Buck Shaw Stadium - San Jose Earthquakes (1996–present) since 2008

1967 (43 years)
Tampa Stadium - Tampa Bay Mutiny (1996–2001) between 1996 and 1998

1998 (12 years)
Raymond James Stadium - Tampa Bay Mutiny (1996–2001) between 1998 and 2001

1999 (11 years)
Columbus Crew Stadium - Columbus Crew (1996–present) since 1999

2002 (8 years)
Gillette Stadium - New England Revolution (1996–present) since 2002
Qwest Field - Seattle Sounders FC (2009–present) since 2009

2003 (7 years)
CommunityAmerica Ballpark - Kansas City Wizards (1996–present) since 2008
The Home Depot Center - LA Galaxy (1996–present) since 2003 and Chivas USA (2005–present) since 2005

2005 (5 years)
Pizza Hut Park - FC Dallas (1996–present) since 2005

2006 (4 years)
Toyota Park - Chicago Fire (1998–present) since 2006

2007 (3 years)
Dick's Sporting Goods Stadium - Colorado Rapids (1996–present) since 2007
BMO Field - Toronto FC (2007–present) since 2007

2008 (2 years)
Rio Tinto Stadium - Real Salt Lake (2005–present) since 2008

2010 (0 years)
Red Bull Arena - New York Red Bulls (1996–present) since 2010
PPL Park - Philadelphia Union (2010–present) since 2010

GO CREW!!!!

CG, what about the New expansion teams lol, Portland's gonna be the oldest (1926)

St Louis wants one...mayorm....lol

seriously, idk about that, adding 2 teams in canada (MON and VAN) and Portland... since there just doing succesful lower tier teams hows about one in Charleston, SC? lol

Louisville?....... NAH, not enough support!
Indianapolis, maybe hint: LUCAS OIL STADIUM

MLS Commish Don Garber wants a 2nd team in New York City area in 2012.

Portland Oregon is getting a MLS team next season and they are remodeling PGE Park (maybe it won't look like a big hunk of junk now). CG: There is a big rivalry against the sounders FC soon, should be very fun to watch

Yep...down in Portland we made a U.S. Open Cup match go into a penalty shootout and we won...I was up until 11:00 PM just watching it!

BTW, Sounders tied 1-1 at home with FC Dallas...

There was a bombing in Uganda (country in East Africa) that killed 74 people watching the finals match, on included an American spokeswoman!

Sounders lost 1-2 to Celtic FC in a friendly after the idiot-of-a-ref refused to let a Celtic goal go through and red-carded our back-up goalkeeper. We had to bring out our third goalkeeper, who had to survive a penalty kick and also didn't begin training yet!

Is the Crew playin Manchester United? I hope so, they're my 2 favorite teams!