Greater Binghamton FC (GBFC) was an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

team located in

Binghamton, New York Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

. The team was established in 2012. The team played its home games out of the

Greater Binghamton Sports Complex The Greater Binghamton Sports Complex was an air-supported dome in Union, New York. With over in enclosed area, it was the largest air-supported dome in the United States. The complex was located on Airport Road off Route 17 near the city of Bing ...

History

Greater Binghamton Futbol Club (GBFC) was founded in 2012 in

to compete in the

National Premier Soccer League The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is an American men's association football, soccer league. The NPSL is a semi-professional league, comprising some teams that have paid players and some that are entirely amateur. The league is officially ...

(NPSL), the fourth tier of the

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and roughly equivalent with the

USL Premier Development League USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is a semi-professional developmental soccer league sponsored by United Soccer Leagues in the United States and Canada, forming part of the United States soccer league syste ...

(PDL). The team played their first game on May 13, 2012 a 2-2 draw away against AFC Cleveland. In their second season, GBFC finished 1st in the Keystone Conference during the regular season with a record of 10-2-2, going on to defeat the

New York Red Bulls NPSL The New York Red Bulls U-23 is an American soccer team based in Harrison, New Jersey. Founded in 2009, the team plays in USL League Two, a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. It is part of the official Devel ...

squad 2-1 in Binghamton, but ultimately losing to defending NPSL champions, Lehigh Valley United, 1-0 in the Northeast Region finals.

Year-by-year

Stadium

* The Dome at

;

References

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* National Premier Soccer League teams Amateur soccer teams in the United States Defunct soccer clubs in New York (state) 2012 establishments in New York (state) Association football clubs established in 2012 Sports in Binghamton, New York Association football clubs disestablished in 2018 2018 disestablishments in New York (state) {{NewYork-footyclub-stub