Des Moines Menace

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Des Moines Menace

Full name

Des Moines Menace

Nickname(s)

The Menace

Founded

1994

Ground

Waukee Stadium
Waukee, Iowa

Capacity

6,200

Chairman

Kyle Krause

Manager

Casey Mann

League

Premier Development League

2006

2nd, Conference Playoff Semi Finalists





Home colours





Away colours

Des Moines Menace are an American soccer team, founded in 1994. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and play in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference against teams from Boulder, Colorado Springs, Kansas City, Sioux Falls, St. Louis and Thunder Bay.

The Menace currently play their home games at Waukee Stadium in the city of Waukee, Iowa, 14 miles west of downtown Des Moines. The team is currently raising money for a new 6,000 capacity soccer-specific stadium in suburban Des Moines, although the team have had troubles in the negotiations with the Urbandale City Council over the site. Currently the club has the highest average attendance in the PDL.

The Menace are one of the more successful teams in the PDL. Despite losing their first 10 games in their debut season, they reached the final stages of the PDL Championship playoffs in 1995 and 1998, before winning the PDL Championship title in 2005, beating the El Paso Patriots in El Paso, Texas.

The team's colors are red, white and black.

1 Current squad
2 Year-by-year
3 Notable former players
4 Average Attendance
5 External links

[edit] Current squad

As of October 13, 2006

No.	Position	Player
0	GK	Jake Settle
1	GK	Cameron McKay
2	DF	Nick Foster
3	MF	Cody Kother
4	MF	Zeke Dombrowski
5	DF	Jack Belanger
6	MF	Joe Klosterman
7	MF	Joseph Germanese
8	DF	Danilo Oliveira
9	MF	Jamie Gilbert
10	FW	Edwin Disang
11	FW	Brad Whitsitt
12	FW	Armin Mujdzic
13	DF	Allan Wade
14	MF	Chris Hamburger
15	DF	Peter Kariotis
16	MF	Luke Freiberg

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Jonathan Siberz
18	MF	Travis Yoakum
19	FW	Alexander Munns
20	MF	Ross Moffat
21	MF	Tomas Boltnar
23	FW	Kevin Woerner
24	DF	Tanner Krause
25	DF	Justin McGrane
26	FW	Tucker Sindlinger
30	GK	Philip Breuer
32	MF	Chris van Duerm
33	MF	Jose Alvarado
38	DF	Chris Rufa
40	DF	Nathan Feltz
43	FW	Jacob Henneman
90	GK	Grant Fernstrum

[edit] Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Regular Season	Playoffs	Open Cup
1994	N/A	USISL	7th, Midwest	Did not qualify	Did not enter
1995	N/A	USISL Premier League	3rd, Central	4th Place	Did not qualify
1996	"4"	USISL Premier League	5th, CENTRAL Southern	Division Semifinals	Did not qualify
1996/97	N/A	I-League (indoor)	N/A (limited schedule)
1997	"4"	USISL PDSL	3rd, Central	Quarterfinals	Did not qualify
1998	"4"	USISL PDSL	2nd, Central	3rd Place	Did not qualify
1999	"4"	USL PDL	4th, Heartland	Did not qualify	Did not qualify
2000	"4"	USL PDL	3rd, Heartland	Did not qualify	Did not qualify
2001	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Did not qualify	Did not qualify
2002	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Heartland	Conference Semifinals	2nd Round
2003	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Conference Semifinals	1st Round
2004	"4"	USL PDL	3rd, Heartland	Did not qualify	Did not qualify
2005	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Champions	4th Round
2006	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Conference Semifinals	3rd Round