Full name | Laredo Heat Soccer Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Heat, The Red Flames | ||
Founded | 2004 | ||
Stadium | PEG Energy Stadium Laredo, Texas | ||
Capacity | 4,000 | ||
Owners | Shashi Vaswani | ||
General Manager | Juan Jose Vela | ||
Head Coach | John Powell | ||
League | NPSL | ||
2023 | 5th, Lone Star | ||
Website | Club website | ||
Laredo Heat Soccer Club is an American soccer team based in Laredo, Texas. The team competes in National Premier Soccer League, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, as a member of the Lone Star Conference.
The team plays its home games at the PEG Energy Stadium, where they have played since 2024. The team's colors are red, black and white.
Founded in 2004, the team was a member of the USL Premier Development League from 2004 to 2015. The club took a hiatus for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
Laredo Heat initially joined the USL Premier Development League in 2004 as an expansion franchise, playing a limited 'exploratory' schedule of eight exhibition games against selected opponents, but only managed two wins, both over the Lafayette Swamp Cats, 4–0 and 5–0, the latter of which featured a hat trick from striker Nelson Mata-Meza. Former Tampa Bay Mutiny, D.C. United and US national team striker Roy Lassiter played for Laredo in their 2–1 loss to DFW Tornados, but did not get on the score sheet. [1] He also played in a 1–1 draw against UNAM.
The Heat decided to opt out of the PDL's 2016 season, citing the slow growth of the Mid-South Division as the reason. [2]
The Heat announced they will be part of an expansion team of the National Premier Soccer League in 2018. [3] [4]
Updated June 2024 [5]
Position | |
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Head coach | John Powell |
Assistant coach | Braeden Anderson |
Assistant coach | Johnny Ibarra |
Year | League | Regular Season | Playoffs | Open Cup |
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2004 | USL PDL | 8th, Mid South | did not qualify | did not qualify |
2005 | USL PDL | 2nd, Mid South | Conference Finals | did not qualify |
2006 | USL PDL | 1st, Mid South | National Final | 1st Round |
2007 | USL PDL | 1st, Mid South | Champions | did not qualify |
2008 | USL PDL | 2nd, Mid South | National Final | did not qualify |
2009 | USL PDL | 1st, Mid South | Conference Finals | did not qualify |
2010 | USL PDL | 1st, Mid South | Conference Semifinal | did not qualify |
2011 | USL PDL | 1st, Mid South | National Final | did not qualify |
2012 | USL PDL | 1st, Mid South | Conference Semifinal | 2nd Round |
2013 | USL PDL | 2nd, Mid South | Conference Finals | 2nd Round |
2014 | USL PDL | 2nd, Mid South | Conference Semifinal | 4th Round |
2015 | USL PDL | 3rd, Mid South | did not qualify | 2nd Round |
2016 | On Hiatus | |||
2017 | ||||
2018 | NPSL | 1st, Lone Star | Regional semifinals | did not qualify |
2019 | NPSL | 5th, Lone Star | did not qualify | 2nd Round |
2020 | NPSL | Cancelled due to COVID | ||
2021 | NPSL | 2nd, Lone Star | Conference Final | did not qualify |
2022 | NPSL | 1st, Lone Star | Regional semifinals | did not qualify |
2023 | NPSL | 5th, Lone Star | did not qualify | did not qualify |
2024 | NPSL | 4th, Lone Star | In Progress | did not qualify |
Attendance stats are calculated by averaging each team's self-reported home attendances from the historical match. [8]
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