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| Full name | FC Cincinnati 2 | ||
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| Founded | December 6, 2021 | ||
| Stadium | NKU Soccer Stadium Highland Heights, Kentucky | ||
| Capacity | 1,000 | ||
| Head coach | Tyrone Marshall | ||
| League | MLS Next Pro | ||
| 2023 | 12th, Eastern Conference Playoffs: Did not qualify | ||
| Website | https://www.fccincinnati.com/fccincinnati2/ | ||
FC Cincinnati 2 is an American professional soccer team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the reserve team of FC Cincinnati and participates in MLS Next Pro.
On December 6, 2021, FC Cincinnati were named as one of 21 clubs that would field a team in the new MLS Next Pro league beginning in the 2022 season. [1] [2] On February 22, 2022, FC Cincinnati unveiled the name and coaching staff of the new team. [3]
On February 24, 2022, the team announced that for their inaugural season, they would use three different venues as their home stadium. Their first seven home matches would be played at NKU Soccer Stadium, a 1,000-capacity venue at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky. Four of their remaining five matches would be played at Mercy Health Training Center, the team's training facility in Milford, Ohio which includes a 500-capacity stadium. One match would be played at TQL Stadium, the first team's 26,000-capacity home venue in Cincinnati, Ohio. [4]
| No. | Pos. | Player | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | GK | Hunter Morse |  United States |
| 35 | FW | Kenji Mboma Dem |  France |
| 38 | DF | Brian Schaefer | United States |
| 40 | MF | Alejandro Guido | United States |
| 41 | DF | Nico Benalcazar | United States |
| 42 | DF | Amir Daley | United States |
| 43 | MF | Jesús Castellano |  Venezuela |
| 44 | MF | Ben Stitz | United States |
| 45 | FW | Moises Tablante | Venezuela |
| 46 | FW | Guilherme Santos |  Brazil |
| 48 | DF | Juan Machado |  Colombia |
| 49 | FW | Peter Mangione | United States |
| 50 | MF | Yeiner Valoyes | Colombia |
| 52 | MF | Yair Ramos | Venezuela |
| 56 | DF | Ashton Kamdem | United States |
| 88 | DF | Andrei Chirilla | United States |
| 96 | DF | Gaël Gibert | France |
| Season | MLS Next Pro | Playoffs | Top Scorer | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Conference | Overall | Player | Goals | |||
| 2022 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 27 | 65 | 17 | 10th, Eastern | 21st | Did not qualify | Nick Markanich  Arquimides Ordonez | 4 | |
| 2023 | 28 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 37 | 65 | 27 | 12th, Eastern | 24th | Did not qualify | Arquimides Ordóñez | 9 | |
| Name | Nationality | From | To | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrone Marshall [4] |  Jamaica | February 22, 2022 | present | 52 | 11 | 7 | 34 | 64 | 130 | 21.15 |
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