{"id":33219,"date":"2025-02-13T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/usl-announces-intention-to-start-new-league-at-same-tier-as-mls\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:25:03","slug":"usl-announces-intention-to-start-new-league-at-same-tier-as-mls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/usl-announces-intention-to-start-new-league-at-same-tier-as-mls\/","title":{"rendered":"USL announces intention to start new league at same tier as MLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>USL president says new competition is not a threat to MLS<\/li>\n<li>Would give USL competitions at every level of men\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Soccer Leagues (USL), the organization that administers most of the lower-division leagues in the United States, will announce on Thursday that it intends to add a new league to its portfolio: One that is sanctioned as Division I, the same level as MLS.<\/p>\n<p>The as yet-unnamed league, which USL says it intends to launch in 2027, would give the organization a circuit at each level of the men\u2019s US Soccer system, along with the Division II USL Championship, Division III USL League One, the semi-pro USL League Two, and USL Youth leagues. It will also seemingly open up a direct line of competition between the organization and MLS, years after the two ended their strategic partnership that saw many MLS reserve teams playing in USL leagues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/feb\/13\/usl-division-i-league-mls-paul-mcdonough\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USL president says new competition is not a threat to MLS Would give USL competitions at every level of men\u2019s soccer The United Soccer Leagues (USL), the organization that administers most of the lower-division leagues in the United States, will announce on Thursday that it intends to add a new league to its portfolio: One &#8230; <a title=\"USL announces intention to start new league at same tier as MLS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/usl-announces-intention-to-start-new-league-at-same-tier-as-mls\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USL announces intention to start new league at same tier as MLS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}