Queen City FC

Queen City FC

Full name	Queen City Football Club
Founded	2006
Dissolved	2008
Stadium	All-High Stadium Buffalo, New York
Ground Capacity	4,000
Chairman	Ryan Knapp
Manager	Thomas Cordaro
League	National Premier Soccer League
2008	3rd, North Division Playoffs: DNQ
Home colors Away colors

Queen City FC was an American soccer team based in Buffalo, New York, United States. Founded in 2006, the team played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2008, when the franchise was sold to Mike Share in October 2008 and the team changed names to Buffalo City FC.

The team played its home games All-High Stadium. The team's colors were sky blue and black.

The Front Office consisted of: Executive Director and General Manager, Christopher Keem; Controller, Dennis Behrens; Director of Community Outreach, Micheal Strangio; Technical Director, Brendan Murphy; Director of Field Hockey (offshoot of Queen City FC), Jessica Murphy; Director of Scouting, Kevin Brenner; Transportation Coordinator, Jake Szopinski ; Director of Media Relations, Ryan Knapp; Stength and Conditioning, Chris Nentarz.

Supporters Group was led by Jamey Van, and the name was "The O'Block"

Queen City FC is also the name of an unrelated youth soccer club based in South Burlington, founded in 2011 by Shane Bufano.

History

Queen City FC was started by former professional and college players looking for a side to support in the Greater Buffalo area, with the only high level football played in the area being in Rochester with the Rochester Raging Rhinos, and the MLS expansion team Toronto FC in Toronto. In 2007, Queen City FC won the northeast division and competed for the National NPSL Finals only to lose by one goal. Their debut season can be noted as one of the most successful debut seasons in Buffalo sports history. After a successful two seasons, their franchise rights were transferred to Buffalo City FC. Buffalo City FC would later become FC Buffalo in 2009.

Players

Player Roster (2006–2008)

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Shawn McDonell 2 DF Casey Derkacz 3 DF Andrew Laracuente 4 DF Justin Farnsworth 5 DF Jeremy Watson 6 MF Ali Montacer 8 DF Gavin Stabbe 9 FW Steve Butcher 11 FW Dan Ames 12 DF Chris Billoni 13 DF Kyle Sniatecki 16 MF Dan Cavanaugh 17 DF Josh Piscatelli 18 DF Salvatore Curella 19 MF Al Franjone 20 DF Chris Somers

No. Position Player 21 MF Cory Cwiklinski 22 FW Prisco Houndanon 23 FW Colin Oliver 24 FW Ryan O'Donnell 25 MF Jake Schindler 26 MF Peter Marlette, Jr 29 DF Richard Namulala 28 GK JJ Bilinski 30 FW Andy Tiedt 31 DF Marco Stencil 32 MF Brad Lefort 33 MF Chris Lofgren 34 FW Matt Contino 36 FW Rudi Costa 37 MF Matt Daum 38 GK Bart Loos 39 GK Emilio Coletta

Year-by-year

Honors

• NPSL Northeast Division Champions (2007)
• NPSL National Finalist (2007)

Head coaches

• Michael Middleton (2007)
• Thomas Cordaro (2007–2008)

Stadia

• All-High Stadium; Buffalo, New York (2007–2008)

Supporters

The club's supporters group were known as "The O-Block".

External links

• National Premier Soccer League
• Queen City FC MySpace

• Queen City Football Club website