Philadelphia German-American 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 t ...

club based in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...

that was an inaugural member of the professional American Soccer League. Before the 1941/42 season the club became known as the Philadelphia Americans. During the 1953/54 season, the franchise was bought by a trucking magnate and renamed the Uhrik Truckers. The team earned a "mini-double" in 1955 winning the league championship and league cup (the Lewis Cup). The club also won the National Amateur Cup in 1933 and 1934 and the Lewis Cup in 1941, 1943 and 1958.

Year-by-year

Coaches

* Jimmy Mills 1956-

References

American Soccer League (1933–1983) teams Defunct soccer clubs in Pennsylvania Soccer clubs in Philadelphia 1933 establishments in Pennsylvania 1966 disestablishments in Pennsylvania Association football clubs established in 1933 Association football clubs disestablished in 1966 Works soccer clubs in the United States U.S. Open Cup winners {{Philadelphia-sport-stub