The 2021 Tacoma Defiance season was the seventh season of the

Tacoma Defiance Tacoma Defiance, formerly Seattle Sounders FC 2, is an American professional soccer team based in Tacoma, Washington, U.S. that competes in the MLS Next Pro, the third tier of the national soccer pyramid, as the reserve team of Seattle Sounde ...

, an American soccer team that played in the

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...

, the second tier of soccer in the country. It was the fourth season since the club was renamed from

Seattle Sounders FC 2 Tacoma Defiance, formerly Seattle Sounders FC 2, is an American professional soccer team based in Tacoma, Washington, U.S. that competes in the MLS Next Pro, the third tier of the national soccer pyramid, as the reserve team of Seattle Soun ...

and relocated to

Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, and northwest of Mount ...

. Defiance is majority owned by

Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders Football Club is an American professional men's soccer club based in Seattle. The Sounders compete as a member of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). The club was established on November 13, 2007, and began ...

, a

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team, and serves as their reserve and development squad.

Roster

Out on loan

Competitions

Preseason

Friendlies

USL regular season

Results summary

Results by matchday

Matches

U.S. Open Cup

Due to their ownership by a higher division professional club (

), Tacoma is one of 15 teams expressly forbidden from entering the Cup competition.

Statistics

Appearances and goals

''Numbers after plus-sign(+) denote appearances as a substitute.''

Top scorers

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Top assists

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Disciplinary record

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Randy Mendoza Randy Mendoza (born March 21, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays as a defender for Tacoma Defiance in MLS Next Pro. Early life and education Mendoza was raised in Santa Paula, California and attended Santa P ...

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Honors and awards

Team of the Week

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Transfers

For transfers in, dates listed are when Tacoma Defiance officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Defiance officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Tacoma Defiance roster.

In

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Out

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References

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Tacoma Defiance seasons