New England Mutiny

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New England Mutiny
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Full nameNew England Mutiny
Nickname(s)Mutiny
Founded1999
Stadium Lusitano Stadium
Ludlow, Massachusetts
Chairman Flag of the United States.svg Joe Ferrara
Manager Flag of the United States.svg Joe Abele
League United Women's Soccer
2017 3rd, East Conference
Playoffs: DNQ
Website Club website

New England Mutiny is an American women's soccer club, which competes at the pro-am level of women's soccer in the US, in the United Women's Soccer league.

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The club plays its home games at Lusitano Stadium.

Team history

Established in 1999 as Springfield Sirens, the club played in the amateur W-League. After winning the W-2 (second division) championship in 2000, [1] the club played one more season in the W-League, then a season as an exhibition team before changing the team name to the New England Mutiny and accepting promotion to WPSL as one of the founding members of the East Division. [2]

On July 29, 2004, in a match preparing women's national team of China for international tournament, the Mutiny surprised the fifth ranked team in the world, in front of 3000 fans in Agawam, Massachusetts, with a 3–1 lead, and losing 4–3 only in the final minutes. The Mutiny consider this match one of their two crowning achievements.

After the folding of WPS in 2012, the club joined the new Women's Premier Soccer League Elite, which included three former WPS teams. Although they finished fifth out of the eight WPSLE teams, they recorded wins over the Chicago Red Stars and Boston Breakers as well as a draw at the Western New York Flash – the former WPS teams – in the last month of the season. Their win over the Breakers is the first occurrence of an amateur side beating a professional side in US women's soccer, (Chicago fielded an amateur roster in WPSLE,) and is the second of the Mutiny's crowning achievements. WPSL-Elite lasted just one year as the former WPS teams joined the newly formed National Women's Soccer League, while the remaining teams either folded or, like the Mutiny, returned to the WPSL in 2013.

The Mutiny spent three further years in the WPSL, but after dissatisfaction with playoff procedures and handling in the WPSL, the team branched off to join the inaugural 2016 season of United Women's Soccer. [3]

Players

The following former players have played at the senior international and/or professional level: [4]

Year-by-year

YearDivisionLeagueReg. SeasonPlayoffs
19993 W-2 1st, North DivisionRunner up
20003W-21st, North DivisionChampions
20012 W-1 4th, Northern Conferencedid not qualify
2002Exhibition Season
20032 WPSL 1st, EastNational semifinals
20042WPSL1st, EastRunner up
2005 2WPSL1st, EastNational semifinals (3rd)
2006 2WPSL3rd, East – Northdid not qualify
2007 2WPSL1st, East – NorthRunner up
2008 2WPSL2nd, East – NorthNational semifinals
2009 2WPSL8th, East (Conf.)East Semifinals
2010 2WPSL3rd, East – Northeastdid not qualify
2011 2WPSL4th, East – NortheastEast Quarterfinals
2012 1 WPSLE 5thdid not qualify
2013 2 WPSL 1st, East – NortheastNational semifinals
2014 2WPSL4th, East – Northeastdid not qualify
2015 2WPSL1st, Power 5East Regional final
2016 2UWS2nd, Eastdid not qualify
2017 2UWS3rd, Eastdid not qualify
2018 2UWS6th, Eastdid not qualify
2019 2UWS1st EastConference Finals
2020Season cancelled due to COVID-19
2021 4UWS8th, Eastdid not qualify
2022 4UWS1st, New England DivisionConference Semifinal
2023 4UWS6th, EastEast First Round
2024 4UWS1st, EastRunner up

Honors

Coaches

Stadia

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