2025 Birmingham Legion FC season

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Birmingham Legion FC
2025 season
General Manager Jay Heaps
Head Coach Tom Soehn
Stadium Protective Stadium
USL Championship Eastern Conference: TBD
Playoffs TBD
U.S. Open Cup First Round
USL Cup TBD
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The 2025 Birmingham Legion season is the seventh season of play in the club's history in the USL Championship, the second tier of American soccer.

Contents

Squad Information

Roster

As of April 4, 2025 [1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Matt Van Oekel
2 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Stephen Turnbull
3 DF Flag of Rwanda.svg  RWA Phanuel Kavita
4 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ramiz Hamouda
5 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ethan Kos
7 FW Flag of Mexico.svg  MEX Danny Trejo
8 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Kobe Hernandez-Foster
9 FW Flag of Haiti.svg  HAI Ronaldo Damus (on loan from GIF Sundsvall)
10 FW Flag of Cameroon.svg  CMR Tabort Etaka Preston
11 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Dawson McCartney
13 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jake Rufe
15 FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN Tyler Pasher
No.Pos.NationPlayer
18 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Trevor Spangenberg
19 MF Flag of Uruguay.svg  URU Enzo Martínez
20 DF Flag of Grenada.svg  GRN A. J. Paterson
21 FW Flag of Uruguay.svg  URU Sebastian Tregarthen
22 FW Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA Lucca Dourado
25 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Roman Torres (on loan from Minnesota United 2)
32 MF Flag of Nigeria.svg  NGA Temi Ereku
33 DF Flag of Ghana.svg  GHA Moses Mensah
43 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Tiago Suarez (on loan from New England Revolution)
47 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Finn Calloway
57 GK Flag of Mexico.svg  MEX Fernando Delgado
— MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Sam McIllhatton

Competitions

USL Championship

Standings

PosTeam
PldWLTGFGAGDPtsQualification
7 Charleston Battery 31204403 Playoffs
8 Tampa Bay Rowdies 312023−13
9 Birmingham Legion FC 402248−42
10 Rhode Island FC 302126−41
11 Hartford Athletic 303015−40
First match(es) will be played: March 8, 2025. Source: USL Championship Standings
Rules for classification: 1) head-to-head points; 2) head-to-head goal differential; 3) points-per game within conference; 4) total wins; 5) total goal differential; 6) total goals scored; 7) points earned against top four Conference finishers; 8) disciplinary points; 9) coin toss or drawing of lots

Match results

On December 19, 2024, the USL Championship released the regular season schedule for all 24 teams. [2]

All times in Central Time Zone.

September 6, 2025 (2025-09-06)23 FC Tulsa v Birmingham Legion FC Tulsa, Oklahoma
7:30 PMStadium: ONEOK Field
October 19, 2025 (2025-10-19)29 Birmingham Legion FC v Miami FC Birmingham, Alabama
4:00 PMStadium: Protective Field

USL Cup

The Legion will participate in the second edition of the USL Cup, the first edition to feature teams from both the USL Championship and League One. [3] [4]

Group standings

PosLgTeam
PldWPKWPKLLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 USLC Birmingham Legion FC 000000000Advance to knockout stage
2 USL1 Chattanooga Red Wolves SC 000000000
3 USL1 Forward Madison FC 000000000
4 USLC Indy Eleven 000000000
5 USL1 One Knoxville SC 000000000
6 USLC FC Tulsa 000000000
First match(es) will be played: April 26, 2025 (2025-04-26). Source: USL

Group stage

May 31, 2025 (2025-05-31) FC Tulsa v Birmingham Legion FC Tulsa, Oklahoma
7:30 PM CDT Stadium: Oneok Field

U.S. Open Cup

As a member of the USL Championship, the Birmingham Legion entered in the first round of the 110th edition of the U.S. Open Cup, where they were on the losing end of an upset to pre-professional club Little Rock Rangers of USL League 2. [5] [6]

March 19 Little Rock Rangers (USL2) Flag of Arkansas.svg 1–0 Flag of Alabama.svg Birmingham Legion (USLC) Little Rock, Arkansas
7:00 PM CDT
  • McConnell Soccerball shade.svg48'
 Report Stadium: Episcopal Collegiate School
Attendance: 1,328
Referee: Deshun Beard

References

  1. ↑ "Roster Archive". Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
  2. ↑ USLSoccer Staff (December 19, 2024). "USL Championship reveals the 2025 season schedule". USL Championship. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
  3. ↑ Lewis, Michael (December 12, 2024). "ANOTHER COMPETITION: USL adds Jägermeister Cup for Championship, League One teams". Front Row Soccer. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  4. ↑ Silverman, Alex (December 12, 2024). "USL expanding Jägermeister Cup to all teams". www.sportsbusinessjournal.com. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  5. ↑ Byrd, Phillip (March 21, 2025). "2025 US Open Round 1: Little Rock Rangers upset Birmingham Legion to earn first USOC win". thecup.us. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  6. ↑ Farrar, Thomas (February 5, 2025). "LR Rangers to compete in nation's oldest soccer tournament, US Open Cup". KATV. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
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