Full name | FC Baltimore Christos | ||
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Founded | 2018 | ||
Stadium | Marriotts Ridge High School Marriottsville, Maryland | ||
Capacity | 3,000 | ||
General Manager | Alex Lubyansky [1] | ||
Head Coach | Larry Sancomb [2] | ||
League | USL League Two | ||
2023 | Chesapeake Division, Eastern Conference | ||
Website | Club website | ||
FC Baltimore Christos (founded as FC Baltimore 1729) was an American soccer team based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 2018, the team played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Mid Atlantic Conference of the Northeast Region. [3] [4]
The team played its home games at Marriotts Ridge High School.
On November 5, 2018, the team announced a partnership with Christos FC and altered its official name from FC Baltimore 1729 to FC Baltimore Christos. [5] [6] [7] Following the 2021 NPSL season in which the team made the National Finals, they announced they would move to the USL League 2 from 2022. They also rebranded as simply Christos FC.
Year | League | Regular Season | Playoffs | U.S. Open Cup | Notes |
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2018 | NPSL | 1st, Mid-Atlantic Conference | Conference Final | Ineligible | Lost in Conference Final to FC Frederick |
2019 | 1st, Mid-Atlantic Conference | Northeast Regional Final | 1st Round | Lost in Northeast Regional Final to New York Cosmos B | |
2020 | Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [8] | ||||
2021 | 1st, Mid-Atlantic Conference | National Semifinal | Cancelled | Lost in National Semifinal to Tulsa Athletic | |
2022 | USL League Two | 2nd, Chesapeake Division, Eastern Conference | Conference Quarterfinal | Not participated | Lost in Conference Quarterfinal to Seacoast United Phantoms |
2023 | Chesapeake Division, Eastern Conference | Second qualifying round | |||
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