Tampa Bay United Soccer Club is a soccer club from

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that plays in the Southeast Division in

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History

The club was founded as a youth soccer club in

, where they are the largest youth team in the city. In 2017, they formed a partnership with professional club

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, who play in the second-tier

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. As part of the affiliation, TBU rebranded as the Tampa Bay United Rowdies, adopting the Rowdies' green and gold hooped jerseys and wearing the Rowdies logo on their jerseys on their jerseys. As part of the partnership, they became the Rowdies official youth affiliate program. In 2020, it was announced that they were joining the

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youth development program for academy teams in the United States and Canada. In 2021, it was announced that the club was rejoining the

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where they originally had a team known as the

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, which rebranded to the Tampa Bay United name in 2017, before departing the league in 2018. In 2021, they joined

, the fourth tier of the U.S. soccer pyramid, replacing the

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who had initially been set to rejoin the league in 2020, prior to that season's cancelation.

Year-by-year

References

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