Prior to the 2009 NASL split several other cities had been mentioned as being locations where future USL-1 franchises might be launched, including St. Louis, Missouri ( led by the current PDL franchise St. Louis Lions ), Orlando, Florida ( with Mexican side Pachuca being rumored as connected to it ), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, Hamilton, Ontario, San Antonio, Texas and Ottawa, Ontario.

July's games ended with a 2-1 defeat to West Virginia Chaos which saw David Atkinson score the first penalty the team had been awarded in their PDL time.

The cup went to the organization that had the most points in games between their PDL and W-League teams.

Several franchises had been voluntarily relegated from the First Division to the Second, and occasionally from the professional ranks to the PDL, usually to reduce operating costs or to re-structure the organization of the franchise in question.

The Abbotsford area has long had a history of competitive developmental teams, including Abbotsford 86ers Select in 2000, Abbotsford 86ers in 1999 and Abbotsford Athletes in Action in 1998 ; Abbotsford Rangers joined the PDL as a ' provisional team ' in 2003, playing at Rotary Stadium, but struggled on the field, losing their first eight games, and not picking up a win until mid-June when they topped Cascade Surge 3-2 off goals by Jason Jorgensen, Brad Peetoom and Spencer Schmidt.

In addition to the PDL team, the Internationals had a sister club-Cleveland Internationals Women-in the USL W-League, as well as an entry in the Super Y-League.

The Cleveland Internationals were first entered into the PDL in 2004 by George Nanchoff, a Yugoslavian ex-NASL player who now runs the Internationals Soccer Club, which was established in 1976 as an outlet for young Ohio players who had graduated from college but still had a desire to continue to play competitively.

Unfortunately, the Bucks were beaten in the final by the Chicago Sockers, and had to be content with being the second best PDL team in the nation ; still, three divisional titles and five consecutive trips to the playoffs was a remarkable achievement for the club.

The game, which Laredo hosted, saw them facing off again against Central Conference champions Michigan Bucks, the first time in PDL history that the same teams had qualified for consecutive championship games.

Junior Garcia was the top scorer in the entire PDL, with 15 goals, and was subsequently named the national MVP, the first time that honor had ever been given to a Yakima player.

Extra time saw the Menace fight back from 3-1 down to force a 3-3 tie, with Cody Kother scoring the equalizing goal in the 113th minute ; Menace lost the resulting penalty shootout 5-3 when Alexander Munns ' spot kick was saved by Evan Bush, and Menace's grip on the PDL trophy had gone.

The Seahorses, which had previously been in existence as a youth soccer club since 1983, joined the PDL in 2001, and were successful immediately, finishing second to Orange County Blue Star in their debut season with an impressive 13-6-1 record.

Though the PDL does have some paid players, it also has many teams that are made up entirely or almost entirely of college soccer players who use the league as an opportunity to play competitive soccer in front of professional scouts during the summer, while retaining amateur status and NCAA eligibility.

Nine clubs from the USASA earn places, as do 16 U. S .- based PDL teams.

Des Moines and Chicago Fire Reserves dominated the 2002 regular season, but both teams stuttered in the playoffs ; the PDL final saw the Cape Cod Crusaders defeating the Boulder Rapids Reserve 2-1 to bring the title to the Northeast for the second year in a row.

A TV agreement with Fox Soccer Channel saw the PDL Championship game being broadcast live on national television in North America for the first time, and professional teams began investing in the league by adding U-23 development sides as an addition to their senior rosters.

Both teams made the PDL Final in 2006 and 2007, with the Bucks emerging victorious in ' 06 with a 2-1 win thanks to goals by Kenny Uzoigwe and Ty Shipalane, only for Laredo to get their revenge the following year with an epic penalty kicks win after a 0-0 tie in regulation time.

USA States with PDL teams are highlighted in red, Canadian Provinces with PDL teams are in dark red, 2011 expansion teams included.

Western Conference teams dominated the league in 2011 for the third year in a row, with the Kitsap Pumas ending the season as national champions, beating Laredo Heat 1-0 in the 2011 PDL Championship game.

Many top American college soccer players play for separate teams in the Premier Development League ( PDL ) during the summer.

The BYU Cougars team is the men's college soccer team of Brigham Young University, and are one of the few openly religious teams in the PDL, their host university being the flagship educational establishment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Ottawa Fury entered the PDL in 2005, joining fellow Canadian teams Thunder Bay Chill and Abbotsford Rangers in the American-based competition.

Playing under the auspices of a professional club gave the Fire an advantage in terms of organization and player talent identification, which has led to them becoming one of the most successful teams in the PDL, winning their divisional title on all but one occasion, and having many of their players graduate on to the biggest of soccer stages.

From 2003 to 2010, they have the fourth best overall record and the fourth best home record among the 67 PDL teams.

They are also one of the best PDL clubs in US Open Cup play, winning six games since 2003 with four of them being upsets of professional teams.

It consists of over 100 teams, many of which are operated by clubs from MLS to PDL.

The Crusaders were one of the most successful minor-league soccer teams in the United States, having been national PDL champions twice, in 2002 and 2003.

The Parliament also voted down two PDL government proposed by Traian Băsescu, and insisted on the creation of a PSD-PNL-UDMR government headed by FDGR-member Klaus Iohannis, proposition turned down by Băsescu.

The team also qualified for their first US Open Cup campaign in 1999, but were upset in the first round by Florida PDL side Cocoa Expos, losing an 8-goal thriller 5-3.

The PDL expanded by a further eight franchises in 2000, and the Chicago Sockers won their second straight title, beating the Mid-Michigan Bucks in a close 1-0 Championship game.

Numerical tasks such as image processing and computer modeling of physical systems require more structured data, and PDL supplies this need by including more traditional array constructs and additional syntax to describe vector processes.

On a computer with both Perl and PDL installed, any Perl script can use the PDL functionality by declaring "< tt > use PDL ;</ tt >".

VIPP was originally written by couple of Xerox systems Analysts in Switzerland to enable the highest speed Postscript Printers, at that time 50 pages per minute, to have the features of Xerox's famous production printing languages PDL and FDL ( Xerox proprietary printing languages ) which provide simple variable data printing.

The Rough Riders also made their second trip to the US Open Cup this year, but were upset in the second round by PDL team Mid Michigan Bucks, who came from a goal down to register a 2-1 win.

BYU realigned to the Southwest Division in 2009 following the PDL expansion in the Pacific Northwest, and won their opening game 1-0 over the Lancaster Rattlers off a goal by Steven Fellows, but found the early games tough going, winning just one of their next six games ( 1-0 at home over the Hollywood United Hitmen ), while suffering a 4-0 defeat in the return fixture against Hollywood in which midfielder B. J. Pugmire ruptured his knee ligaments.

That final day victory also secured the Heartland Division title for Thunder Bay by three points over second place St. Louis Lions, and confirmed their trip to the PDL post-season for the first time.

But I have rejected such a proposal because it comes from PSD or another party ", referring to his alleged constraint to consider a proposal of the largest party ( PDL ), constraint disputed by the other parties.

The PDL is a part of the periodontium that provide for the attachment of the teeth to the surrounding alveolar bone by way of the cementum.

Fuego made their debut in PDL competition in 2003, having picked up the franchise rights in 2002 by then partners Jaime Marquez Sr., J. Francisco Alvarez, J. Antonio Alvarez & Jaime Marquez Jr. from the former PDL champions, the Central Coast Roadrunners from San Luis Obispo.

The playoffs, which were hosted by Fresno at Chukchansi, saw them demolish Tacoma Tide 4-1, and then knock off Northwest champs BYU Cougars to take their second conference title ; but once again their national challenge saw them fall at the first hurdle, losing 1-0 to eventual PDL national champions Laredo Heat.

The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League ( PDL ), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2005, when the franchise was terminated by the PDL after the 10-year old artificial turf at their home ground, Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane, Washington was declared unsafe for play.