Alabama Spirit is an American

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team founded in 2007. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the

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, and will make their debut in the new Southeast Conference in 2008, playing a short season of "exhibition games" prior to a planned full inclusion into the league some time in the future. The team will play their home games in a stadium in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. The venue is the Homewood Soccer Park. Following the inaugural competition for the club (a 2–3 loss in a friendly against reserves from Mexico's CF Monterrey Rayados), the club owner said he hopes to have the Spirit in the higher-caliber United Soccer Leagues where he already owns the Nashville Metrosbr>

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