* American Soccer League, professional leagues in the USA

As a rule, international association football has only had championship playoffs when a league is divided into several equal divisions / conferences / groups ( Major League Soccer, Primera División de México ) and / or when the season is split into two periods ( as in many leagues in Latin America ).

AYSO soccer, Club Soccer such as Apex Soccer Club, Newbury Park Soccer Club and Conejo Valley United, Conejo Youth Basketball Association, also known as CYBA, Conejo Valley Thunder Wrestling, Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, CYFFA flag football, girls ' softball, organized swim team leagues, ice hockey, and even organized lacrosse and field hockey involve hundreds and even thousands of participants and their parents year in and year out.

The Recreation Commission conducts leagues for 30 softball teams for men and women in addition to assisting and cooperating with the Norwood Knothole Association and Norwood Soccer Association in providing facilities for all their teams.

U. S. Soccer sanctions referees and soccer tournaments for most soccer leagues in the United States.

The United Soccer Leagues ( USL ) are a collection of five leagues spanning the lower divisions of men's professional soccer, as well as women's soccer and youth soccer.

In 1967, two professional soccer leagues started in the United States: the FIFA-sanctioned United Soccer Association, which consisted of entire European and South American teams brought to the US and given local names, and the unsanctioned National Professional Soccer League.

The leagues merged in 1968 to form the North American Soccer League ( NASL ).

The Portland Timbers, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, and Vancouver Whitecaps names have all been used for successor teams in Major League Soccer, with other team names having been used in lower leagues.

Soccer leagues in Quesnel include the Quesnel Youth Soccer Association for youth soccer and the Quesnel Mixed Soccer Association & Quesnel Fun Soccer League for Adult soccer.

The teams compete in 3 different leagues: South Bucks Mini Soccer Conference U7-U10, Booker Wholesale League U11-U16, Bucks Girls League U11 and U13 Girls teams.

It was at the third tier of soccer in the United States, behind Major League Soccer ( top division ) and the USL First Division ( second division ), and one step up from the USL Premier Development League and the other leagues at Level 4.

In 1995 the United States Interregional Soccer League ( USISL ), the de-facto second tier of American soccer at the time, changed its name to the United States International Soccer League, and split into two leagues, one professional and one amateur.

The United Soccer Leagues ( USL ) is the organizer of several soccer leagues with teams in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

This was soon changed to Southwest Independent Soccer League which included both the indoor and outdoor leagues.

* North America: The National Hockey League, National Football League, Major League Soccer, National Lacrosse League, Canadian Football League, National Basketball Association and minor leagues in various sports.

In the popular weekly football show, Soccer A. M, the phrase " Accrington Stanley, who are they?

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

The five most frequently offered college sports for women are, in order: ( 1 ) Basketball, 98. 8 % of schools have a team, ( 2 ) Volleyball, 95. 7 %, ( 3 ) Soccer, 92. 0 %, ( 4 ) Cross Country, 90. 8 %, and ( 5 ) Softball, 89. 2 %.

Soccer, softball, baseball, and lacrosse games are played here.

Among the organizations sponsoring youth athletics are the Beech Grove Little League, the Beech Grove Athletic Boosters ( football, volleyball, basketball ), the Beech Grove Wrestling Club, the Beech Grove Girls's Softball Association, the Beech Grove Soccer Club and the Beech Grove Swimming Club.

Monroe Township Soccer Club hosts a tournament every year on the soccer fields that are located in the park, and they get a very good turnout every single season.

The Baldwinsville sports teams are nicknamed the " Bees ," and have had some recent success, especially in Girl's Volleyball ( 2010 New York State Champions, 2006, 2009 & 2011 New York State Semi-Finalists, and 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Section 3 Champs ), 2008 Boy's Cross Country ( 6th ranked team in the state ), and Boy's Soccer ( 2007 & 2008 Section 3 Champions ).

The original Westbrook farm on the boundary between East Islip and Oakdale, near the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, has ceased operations and its fields are now the home of East Islip Soccer, near the fields set aside for the Little League of the Islips.

The following sports are available at Piqua High School: Football, Men's / Women's Basketball, Men's / Women's Soccer, Men's / Women's Tennis, Volleyball, Bowling, Golf, Baseball, Softball, Men's / Women's Cross Country, Track and Field, Wrestling, Swimming, Cheerleading, Show Choir, and Gymnastics.

Although Dawson College offers a wide variety of sports to its student body, the national governing body of college athletics, the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association ( CCAA ) only sanctions five sports nationally ( AAA ), those sports are: Basketball, Soccer, Golf, Badminton, and Cross Country Running.

Football, Soccer and Field Hockey games are played at Plaster Sports Complex.

São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Salvador are the other cities chosen to host the Soccer Games.

Soccer jackets, jerseys and t-shirts with former logos of the soccer associations are very popular ; their designs commonly remember the old days by using lines in the sides and combinations of colours characteristic of those times.

The Spartans are also contributing athletes to Major League Soccer, as Kevin Reiman, Doug DeMartin, Dave Hertel, Greg Janicki, Kenzo Webster, Rauwshan McKenzie, John Minagawa-Webster and Ryan McMahen have all played in Major League Soccer.

The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional soccer team based in San Jose, California that participate in Major League Soccer ( MLS ).

The Los Angeles Galaxy are an American professional soccer team, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, which competes in Major League Soccer ( MLS ).

All games are broadcast on television by Altitude, the official television partner of the Rapids, or else via nationally-available channels, including ESPN-2, Fox Soccer Channel, and Telefutura, or the MLS Direct Kick package.

Most of these records are likely to fall over time, now that Major League Soccer offers a fully professional league, and its teams typically dominate the competition.

The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, " Robot Soccer World Cup ", but there are many other stages of the competition such as " RoboCupRescue ", " RoboCup @ Home " and " RoboCupJunior ".

The Secom Rugguts rugby union team, and the Saitama Soccer Club of the Kantō Soccer League, are located there.

The Soccer Club was organized by undergraduate men interested in playing soccer and promoting the sport.

Youth sports in Morehead City include Little League baseball, organized Soccer Leagues and Basketball Leagues.

The six surviving teams organized the MISL as a single-entity structure similar to Major League Soccer.

The first organized national league, the Japan Soccer League, was organized in 1965 with eight amateur company clubs and replaced the AJWFC and AJICFC.

The following are a few of the organized sports teams: Basketball, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, Judo, Cheerleading, and Dance Team.

The San Francisco United Soccer Club ( SFUSC ) was first organized as a youth soccer club in 1985.

Maroulis sang the National Anthem when he played at the Reality All-Star Soccer Festival ( organized by Survivor: Africa winner, Ethan Zohn ) in April 2007, as well as before the start of a 49ers / Bengels football game at Monster Stadium, San Francisco in December 2007.

It is organized by the Croatian National Soccer Federation of Canada & the U. S., and hosted annually by a CNSF member club.

In Dec. 2012, " The 3rd Beijing Invitational Tournament " will have place, expecting much more teams from various provinces of China to come, and asked to be registered by Sweden National Team, organized by Soccer fans & bought Shuttlecocks from CJA by mail.

Soccer is the most celebrated sports in the township with tournaments such as Ibhola Lethu and Pollen Festive Games ( organised by Pollen Ndlanya ) organized during the festive period.

She was in the past through a referendum organized by the magazine Asia and Oceania Asia-Oceania Soccer and so in 1984