Seattle Sounders

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Seattle Sounders

Full name

Seattle Sounders

Nickname(s)

Sounders

Founded

1994

Ground

Qwest Field,
Seattle, Washington

Capacity

67,000

Chairman

Adrian Hanauer

Manager

Brian Schmetzer

League

USL First Division

2006

7th





Home colours





Away colours

The Seattle Sounders are a U.S. professional soccer team based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1994, the men's team belongs to the USL First Division league, the second overall division of American soccer. The women's team, founded in 2000, belongs to the W-League soccer league. In 2006 the W-League team combined with a local Pacific Coast League women's side and are now known as the Seattle Sounder Saints. The Sounder Saints will play their home matches at Starfire Sports Complex.

The Sounders take their name from the original Seattle Sounders soccer team, which played from 1974 to 1983 in the North American Soccer League. The A-League/USL-1 Sounders have three championships to their credit, winning the league cup in 1995, 1996 and again in 2005. Seattle finished with the best regular season record in the league in 1994 and 2002. The Sounders have numerous division titles and advanced to the league finals in both 2004 and 2005. In 2004 the Sounders lost the championship 2-0 at Montreal. In 2005 Seattle drew the Richmond Kickers 1-1 at Qwest Field before claiming the championship 4-3 in penalty kicks. The Sounders have played at Qwest Field full-time since 2003. The Sounders played the first-ever sporting event at the stadium on July 28, 2002 before over 25,000 fans. Before this facility was built, the team played at Memorial Stadium. The NASL Sounders franchise also played at Memorial Stadium for its first two seasons before moving to the Kingdome. When the Sounders were "reborn" in 1994 they also played a few home matches at the Tacoma Dome.

More recently the club have played US Open Cup, friendly, USL-1 regular season and playoff matches at the suburban Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, when Qwest Field has not been available.

The Emerald City Supporters are the main fan group of the Sounders.

1 Year-by-year
2 Rival Clubs
- 2.1 Titles & Trophies
3 Current squad
4 NASL
- 4.1 Year-by-year
5 Players of note
- 5.1 NASL
- 5.2 APSL/USL
6 External links

[edit] Year-by-year

Year	League	Reg. Season	Playoffs	Open Cup
1994	APSL	1st	Semifinals	Did not enter
1995	A-League	2nd	Champion	Semifinals
1996	A-League	3rd	Champion	Quarterfinals
1997	USISL A-League	2nd, Pacific	Division Finals	Did not qualify
1998	USISL A-League	2nd, Pacific	Conference Semifinals	Did not qualify
1999	USL A-League	3rd, Pacific	Conference Semifinals	3rd Round
2000	USL A-League	1st, Pacific	Conference Semifinals	2nd Round
2001	USL A-League	5th, Western	Did not qualify	2nd Round
2002	USL A-League	1st, Pacific	Conference Semifinals	3rd Round
2003	USL A-League	1st, Pacific	Conference Finals	Quarterfinals
2004	USL A-League	4th, Western	Final	Did not qualify
2005	USL First Division	4th	Champion	3rd Round
2006	USL First Division	7th	Did not qualify	3rd Round

[edit] Rival Clubs

The Seattle Sounders have two bitter rivals, the southern club Portland Timbers and the northern club Vancouver Whitecaps. These three teams compete in the yearly Cascadia Cup. The Sounders would go on to win the trophy in 2006.

[edit] Titles & Trophies

National Conference Champion -1977 (NASL)
Top of the Table -1980 (NASL)
Western Division Champion -1980 (NASL)
Trans-Atlantic Challenge Cup Champion -1981
Western Division Champion -1982 (NASL)
Europac Cup Winners -1982
Top of the Table -1994 (APSL)
League Champion - 1995 (APSL/A-League)
League Champion -1996 (APSL/A-League)
Pacific Division Champion -2000 (A-League)
Top of the Table -2002 (A-League)
Pacific Division Champion -2002 (A-League)
Pacific Division Champion -2003 (A-League)
Western Conference Champion - 2004 (A-League)
League Champion - 2005 (USL First Division)
Cascadia Cup - 2006 (USL-1)

[edit] Current squad

Nationality given from place of birth

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	James Ward
2	DF	Noah Merl
3	DF	Jacob Besagno
4	DF	Danny Jackson
5	MF	C.J Klass
6	MF	Nate Boyden
7	MF	Leighton O'Brien
8	DF	Oluwaseyi Abolaji
9	FW	Craig Tomlinson
10	MF	Santa Maria Rivera
12	DF	Gabe Sturm

No.	Position	Player
13	MF	Andrew Gregor
14	MF	Cam Weaver
15	MF	Kevin Sakuda
17	DF	Zach Scott
18	FW	Roger Levesque
20	MF	Jake Sagare
21	MF	Ben Somoza
22	GK	Chris Eylander
25	FW	Maykel Galindo
27	MF	Jamal Sutton

[edit] NASL

[edit] Year-by-year

Year	League	W	L	T	Pts	Reg. Season	Playoffs
1974	NASL	10	7	3	101	3rd, Western	Did not qualify
1975	NASL	15	7	—	129	2nd, Pacific Division	Lost Quarterfinal (Portland)
1976	NASL	14	10	—	123	2nd, Pacific Conference, Western Division	Won 1st Round (Vancouver) Lost Division Championship (Minnesota)
1977	NASL	14	12	—	123	3rd, Pacific Conference, Western Division	Won Division Championship (Vancouver) Won Conference Championship (Minnesota) Won Semifinal (Los Angeles) Lost Soccer Bowl '77 (Cosmos)
1978	NASL	15	15	—	138	3rd, National Conference, Western Division	Lost 1st Round (Cosmos)
1979	NASL	13	17	—	125	3rd, National Conference, Western Division	Did not qualify
1979/80	NASL Indoor	Did not enter
1980	NASL	25	7	—	201	1st, National Conference, Western Division	Won 1st Round (Vancouver Lost Conference Semifinals (Los Angeles)
1980/81	NASL Indoor	9	9	—	—	4th, Western Division	Did not qualify
1981	NASL	15	17	—	137	4th, Northwest	Lost 1st Round (Chicago)
1981/82	NASL Indoor	9	9	—	—	3rd, National Conference, Northwest Division	Lost 1st Round (Edmonton)
1982	NASL	18	14	—	166	1st, Western Division	Won 1st Round (Toronto) Won Semifinal (Ft. Lauderdale) Lost Soccer Bowl '82 (Cosmos)
1982/83	NASL Indoor	Season cancelled
1983	NASL	12	18	—	119	3rd, Western Division	Did not qualify