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| Full name | California United Strikers Football Club | |||
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| Founded | May 10, 2017 | |||
| Stadium | Championship Soccer Stadium Irvine, California | |||
| Capacity | 5,000 | |||
| Owner | Bronwyn & Pete Capriotti | |||
| President | Michael Collins | |||
| Head coach | Don Ebert | |||
| League | National Independent Soccer Association | |||
California United Strikers FC is an American professional soccer club based in Orange County, California.
The club was founded by Bronwyn & Pete Capriotti and Michael Collins, who have had connections to the adult amateur United Premier Soccer League.
California United FC intended to join the North American Soccer League (NASL) as an expansion franchise for the 2018 season. However, due to the instability of the league, California United withdrew its franchise agreement from NASL in early 2018 and announced that it was exploring all professional league options for the 2019 season. On November 15, 2018, the club was announced as a participant in the 2019 NPSL Founders Cup and as a founding member of a new league to being in 2020. [1]
On March 2, 2019, the team tweeted out their intention to withdraw from the NPSL and NPSL Founders Cup. [2] Three months later, on June 10, 2019, the team was accepted into the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) as a member for the league's inaugural season. [3]
The club participated in the Western Conference NISA championship in Fall 2019. On November 10, 2019, the team won the 2019 NISA Western Conference championship. [4]
| No. | Position | Player | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | GK | Steven Barrera |  United States |
| 2 | DF | Gonzalo Salguero | United States |
| 3 | DF | Aydan Bowers | United States |
| 4 | DF | Garrett Hogbin | United States |
| 5 | DF | Xavier Ikaika Fuerte | United States |
| 6 | MF | Duncan Capriotti | United States |
| 7 | MF | Luis Garcia Sosa |  Mexico |
| 9 | FW | Omar Nuño | Mexico |
| 10 | MF | Gustavo Villalobos | United States |
| 11 | MF | Shane Kaemerle | United States |
| 12 | DF | Marc Bermudez | United States |
| 13 | MF | Felipe Liborio Jr. | United States |
| 14 | FW | Andy Contreras | United States |
| 16 | FW | Christian Thierjung | United States |
| 17 | DF | Brady Treinen | United States |
| 18 | MF | Leonel Alvarenga | United States |
| 19 | MF | Bay Kurtz | United States |
| 20 | MF | Caleb Suh | United States |
| 21 | MF | Francis Jacobs (on loan from Orange County SC) | United States |
| 22 | DF | Kevin Garcia-Lopez | United States |
| 23 | MF | Shinya Kadono |  Japan |
| 24 | DF | Joseph Patrick Pérez | United States |
| 25 | MF | Guilherme Farias |  Brazil |
| 29 | FW | Marcus Lee | United States |
| 30 | FW | Bryan Medina | United States |
| 33 | GK | Jean Gamain Antoine |  Haiti |
| Season | League | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | Pts. | Playoffs | U.S. Open Cup | Top goalscorer | Manager | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | League | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–20 | NISA | Fall – West Coast [lower-alpha 1] | 2nd | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 9 | Champions | Second Round | Christian Thierjung | 6 | Don Ebert |
| Spring [lower-alpha 2] | 2nd | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Cancelled | ||||||
California United maintains a second Team which participates in the Pro Premier division of the United Premier Soccer League (UPSL). The team played as the L.A. Wolves FC in the 2017 UPSL Spring Season, then as OC Invicta in the 2017 UPSL Fall Season. Both teams were coached by Eric Wynalda and both were crowned UPSL National Champions in each season. In the Fall 2018 season, under the California United FC II name, the team went undefeated(13–0–0) and won a third UPSL National Championship. [7] [8]
Additionally, as L.A. Wolves FC the team placed third in the United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) 2017 National Championship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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