Continental Indoor Soccer League

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Continental Indoor Soccer League

Sport	indoor soccer
Founded	1989
No. of teams	high of 15
Country	United States and Mexico
Folded	1997
Last champions	N/A

The Continental Indoor Soccer League was an indoor soccer league that played from 1993 to 1997.

[edit] History

When the Major Soccer League folded in the summer of 1992, two of its former teams (Dallas and San Diego) joined a group of hockey and basketball arena owners led by Ron Weinstein who wanted to create a league to fill dates during the summer months. This was the first attempt at a summer indoor soccer league with all previous leagues being fall-winter leagues.

The CISL played its first season in 1993 with seven teams including one team in Mexico, the Monterrey La Raza. The league reached a high of 15 teams by 1995 including a second team south of the border, the Mexico Toros. However, the league played with 11 teams in both 1996 and 1997. After the 1997 season, several teams withdrew from the league in a dispute with Weinstein, who had been serving as the league's commissioner. When Dallas, the best-drawing team in the league, left the CISL just before Christmas 1997, the league disbanded.

Dallas and Sacramento were two of the founding franchises for the Premier Soccer Alliance in 1998, which became the World Indoor Soccer League in 1999.

[edit] CISL Championship series

Season	Champion	Series	Runner-Up
1993	Dallas Sidekicks	2-1	San Diego Sockers
1994	Las Vegas Dustdevils	2-1	Dallas Sidekicks
1995	Monterrey La Raza	2-1	Sacramento Knights
1996	Monterrey La Raza	2-0	Houston Hotshots
1997	Seattle Seadogs	2-0	Houston Hotshots

[edit] Complete team list

Anaheim Splash (1993-97, Los Angeles United in 1993)
Arizona Sandsharks (1993-95, 1997)
Dallas Sidekicks (1993-97)
Detroit Safari (1994-97, Detroit Neon in 1994-96)
Carolina Vipers (1994)
Houston Hotshots (1994-97)
Indiana Twisters (1996-97, Indianapolis Twisters in 1996)
Las Vegas Dustdevils (1994-95)
Mexico Toros (1995)

Monterrey La Raza (1993-97)
Pittsburgh Stingers (1994-95)
Portland Pride (1993-97)
Sacramento Knights (1993-97)
San Diego Sockers (1993-96)
San Jose Grizzlies (1994-95)
Seattle SeaDogs (1995-97)
Washington Warthogs (1994-97)

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Defunct Soccer Leagues In The United States

AFA (1884–88) • ALPF (1894–95) • NAFBL (1897) • UTFA (1902–20) • ASL I (1921–33) • ASLII (1933–83) • NPSL I (1967) • USA (1967) • NASL (1968–85) • MISL I (1978–92) • NPSL II 1984–01 USL I (1984–85) • WSL (1985–89) • LSSA (1987–92) • ASL III (1988–89) • CISL (1993–97) • EISL (1997–98) • WISL (1998–01) • WUSA (2001–03)