NASL has come at U.S. Soccer with another lawsuit, singling out members of the federation's board of directors. How NASL's New Lawsuit vs. U.S. Soccer Compares, Contrasts to Federal One / The ...

In just about every nation around, the top tier soccer league is only that because it has been assigned as such by the national soccer federation. Such designations were mostly made a century ago ...

NASL’s outside counsel, Jeff Kessler, is a titan of American sports law. He ripped into the dominant soccer organizations in his two-hour, 15-minute opening argument. “It’s a small, insular ...

Michael McCann. June 15, ... The dispute pits the North American Soccer League (NASL), a men’s league that operated between 2011 and 2017, against U.S. Soccer and Major League Soccer (MLS).

The NASL operated as a second-tier league with Division 2 status - underneath MLS - between 2011 and 2017, but then was discontinued in 2018 after the decision by US Soccer to withhold its license.

NASL had applied for Division I status with U.S. Soccer back in 2015, which would've put the league on the same level as MLS, but that claim was denied and NASL went into a downward spiral ...

The NASL was denied a preliminary injunction that would allow the league to operate as a Division II circuit in U.S. Soccer, and it seeks a more favorable outcome as it turns to the familiar U.S ...

The U.S. Soccer Federation is now fighting a two-front legal war over its future. Earlier this month, one of the nation’s leading soccer promoters, Relevent Sports, refiled an antitrust lawsuit ...

The trial began with a 135-minute opening statement by Kessler, who painted NASL as outsiders in the American soccer landscape despite the league’s apparent success toward the end of its six ...

By Mike Scarcella. June 12, 2024 8:49 PM UTC Updated June 12, 2024 ... North American Soccer League (NASL) alleged in its 2017 lawsuit that U.S. Soccer and league member Major League Soccer ...