Southern California Fusion were 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, founded in 2006, which competed in the
National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the
American Soccer Pyramid
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until 2007 when, despite being the reigning NPSL champions, the franchise chose to leave the league.
In 2007, the team played their home matches at
Aviara Park in the city of
Carlsbad, California
Carlsbad is a coastal city in the North County region of San Diego County, California, United States. The city is south of downtown Los Angeles and north of downtown San Diego. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 114,746. ...
, 35 miles north of downtown
San Diego. The team's colors were black, red, white and gold.
The team also fielded an indoor team from 2004 to 2011 in the
Premier Arena Soccer League
The Premier Arena Soccer League (PASL) is an indoor soccer league with mostly semi-professional teams; along with a number of amateur teams across North America. The PASL was previously known as the Federation of Sports Arenas (FSA). The PASL logo ...
.
Year-by-year
Honors
* NPSL Champions 2007
* NPSL Southwest Division Champions 2007
External links
Fusion Official WebsiteFusion Official Fan PageNPSL Official Website
National Premier Soccer League teams
Defunct soccer clubs in California
Soccer clubs in the Greater San Diego Area
Carlsbad, California
Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States
2004 establishments in California
Association football clubs established in 2004
2011 disestablishments in California
Association football clubs disestablished in 2011
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