New England Mutiny is an American women's

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club, which competes at the pro-am level of women's soccer in the US, in the

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league. The club plays its home games at

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Team history

Established in 1999 as Springfield Sirens, the club played in the amateur W-League. After winning the W-2 (second division) championship in 2000, the club played one more season in the W-League, then a season as an exhibition team before changing the team name to the New England Mutiny and accepting promotion to WPSL as one of the founding members of the East Division. On July 29, 2004, in a match preparing women's national team of China for international tournament, the Mutiny surprised the fifth ranked team in the world, in front of 3000 fans in Agawam, Massachusetts, with a 3–1 lead, and losing 4–3 only in the final minutes. The Mutiny consider this match one of their two crowning achievements. After the folding of WPS in 2012, the club joined the new

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, which included three former WPS teams. Although they finished fifth out of the eight WPSLE teams, they recorded wins over the

Chicago Red Stars The Chicago Red Stars are a professional women's soccer club based in Bridgeview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A founding member of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league, they have played in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) sin ...

and

Boston Breakers The Boston Breakers were an American professional soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's ...

as well as a draw at the

Western New York Flash The Western New York Flash (WNY Flash) was an American soccer club based in Elma, New York that competed in the United Women's Soccer league. They have won league championships in four different leagues: the USL W-League in 2010, Women's Profess ...

– the former WPS teams – in the last month of the season. Their win over the Breakers is the first occurrence of an amateur side beating a professional side in US women's soccer, (Chicago fielded an amateur roster in WPSLE,) and is the second of the Mutiny's crowning achievements. WPSL-Elite lasted just one year as the former WPS teams joined the newly formed

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, while the remaining teams either folded or, like the Mutiny, returned to the WPSL in 2013. The Mutiny spent three further years in the WPSL, but after dissatisfaction with playoff procedures and handling in the WPSL, the team branched off to join the inaugural 2016 season of

Players

The following former players have played at the senior international and/or professional level: * Sylvia Gee (Springfield Sirens) * Sonya Maher (Springfield Sirens) * Geraldine O'Shea (Springfield Sirens) * Margaret Saurin (Springfield Sirens) * Claire Scanlan (Springfield Sirens)

Year-by-year

Honors

* W-2 North Division regular season champions (2): 1999, 2000 * W-2 National Champions (1): 2000 * WPSL divisional regular season champions (6): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015 * WPSL East Regional Champions (5): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2013 * ''WPSL National Runners-up (2): 2004, 2007''

Coaches

* Tony Horta 2007–2014 * Joe Abele 2015–present

Stadia

* Harmon Smith Stadium,

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-present

References

External links

Official Site

UWS Page
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