2024 USL League One season

USL League One
Season2024
DatesMarch 9 – October 26 (regular season)
ChampionsUnion Omaha (2nd Title)
Players' ShieldUnion Omaha (3rd Title)
Matches played132
Goals scored387 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorerLyam MacKinnon
(16 goals)
Biggest home win6 goals:
LEX 7–1 CV (September 18)
Biggest away win3 goals:
CV 0–3 MAD (March 29)
SPK 0–3 MAD (May 19)
CHA 2–5 OMA (June 5)
CHA 2–5 GVL (September 14)
Highest scoring8 goals:
LEX 7–1 CV (September 18)
Longest winning run4 matches:
OMA
Longest unbeaten run9 matches:
MAD
Longest winless run9 matches:
CV
Longest losing run6 matches:
CV
Highest attendance5,574
RIC 2–1 MAD (July 3)
Lowest attendance397
CV 2–4 CHA (April 13)
Total attendance305,054
Average attendance2,329
2023
2025
All statistics correct as of October 26, 2024.

The 2024 USL League One season was the sixth season of USL League One, a professional men's soccer league in the third tier of the United States league system.

Twelve teams participated in the 2024 season. Spokane Velocity FC entered as an expansion team. North Carolina FC, having defeated the Charlotte Independence in the 2023 final, left to rejoin the USL Championship.[1][2][3] The regular season started on March 9.[4] The 2024 season also included a new in-season tournament, the USL Cup (known as the USL Jägermeister Cup for sponsorship reasons) which featured a group stage and knockout round played between April and September.[5]

Teams

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Locations of teams for the 2024 USL League One season
Club City Stadium Capacity Head coach Jersey manufacturer Jersey sponsor
Central Valley Fuego FC Fresno, California Fresno State Soccer Stadium 1,000 Jermaine Jones Capelli Sport DAISYPRESS.COM
Charlotte Independence Charlotte, North Carolina American Legion Memorial Stadium 10,500 Mike Jeffries Capelli Sport Novant Health
Chattanooga Red Wolves SC Chattanooga, Tennessee CHI Memorial Stadium 5,000 Scott Mackenzie Adidas Transcard
Forward Madison FC Madison, Wisconsin Breese Stevens Field 5,000 Matt Glaeser Hummel Dairyland Insurance
Greenville Triumph SC Greenville, South Carolina Paladin Stadium 16,000 Rick Wright Hummel Scansource
One Knoxville SC Knoxville, Tennessee Regal Stadium 3,000 Ilija Ilić (interim) Hummel KUB Fiber
Lexington SC Georgetown, Kentucky Toyota Stadium 5,000 Darren Powell Nike UK HealthCare
Lexington, Kentucky Lexington SC Stadium[a] 7,500
Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC Windsor, Colorado TicketSmarter Stadium at Future Legends Complex 6,000 Éamon Zayed Puma New Belgium Brewing Company
Richmond Kickers Richmond, Virginia City Stadium 6,000 Darren Sawatzky Adidas Ukrop's
South Georgia Tormenta FC Statesboro, Georgia Tormenta Stadium 5,300 Ian Cameron Puma Optim Healthcare
Spokane Velocity FC Spokane, Washington ONE Spokane Stadium 5,100 Leigh Veidman Capelli Sport Local community sponsors[b]
Union Omaha Papillion, Nebraska Werner Park 9,023 Dominic Casciato Hummel Centris Federal Credit Union
  1. ^ Lexington SC began playing at Lexington SC Stadium on September 14, 2024.[6]
  2. ^ Spokane Velocity FC's jersey features a QR code that links to a page highlighting one of the team's sponsors, which changes monthly.[7]

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Incoming manager Date of appointment
Central Valley Fuego FC United States Edison Gonzalez End of interim period November 5, 2023 United States Jermaine Jones November 6, 2023 (2023-11-06)[8]
Lexington SC Spain Nacho Novo End of interim period October 23, 2023 England Darren Powell November 11, 2023[9]
Greenville Triumph SC United States John Harkes End of contract December 31, 2023[10] Bermuda Rick Wright January 1, 2024[11]
One Knoxville SC Scotland Mark McKeever Mutual agreement August 15, 2024 (2024-08-15)[12] Serbia Ilija Ilić (interim) August 15, 2024 (2024-08-15)

League table

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Pos Team Pld W L T GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Union Omaha (C, S) 22 15 4 3 47 24 +23 48 Playoffs
2 Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC 22 12 5 5 34 18 +16 41
3 Forward Madison FC 22 10 3 9 35 18 +17 39
4 Greenville Triumph SC 22 11 7 4 39 28 +11 37
5 One Knoxville SC 22 9 5 8 23 16 +7 35
6 Charlotte Independence 22 9 6 7 37 31 +6 34
7 Spokane Velocity FC 22 7 9 6 26 35 −9 27
8 Richmond Kickers 22 6 10 6 25 34 −9 24
9 Lexington SC 22 5 11 6 33 42 −9 21
10 South Georgia Tormenta FC 22 4 10 8 33 42 −9 20
11 Chattanooga Red Wolves SC 22 5 14 3 28 48 −20 18
12 Central Valley Fuego FC 22 5 14 3 27 51 −24 18
Source: USL League One
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) total wins; 3) total goal differential; 4) total goals scored; 5) points earned against top four Conference finishers; 6) disciplinary points; 7) drawing of lots.
(C) Champions; (S) Players' Shield winner

Results table

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Color key: Home  • Away  • Win  • Loss  • Draw
Club Matches[13]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
CV Fuego FC
(CV)
TRM OMA MAD RIC CHA CLT KNX RIC NCO MAD TRM CHA LEX CLT SPK LEX GVL NCO SPK KNX GVL OMA
2–1 1–2 0–3 2–3 2–4 1–3 0–2 1–1 2–2 1–2 3–2 2–1 1–3 0–4 2–3 1–7 2–2 0–1 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–3
Charlotte Independence
(CLT)
KNX SPK GVL OMA CV OMA TRM CHA GVL NCO CHA SPK LEX MAD CV KNX RIC TRM MAD NCO LEX RIC
1–2 2–1 1–0 0–0 3–1 1–4 1–1 4–2 0–2 1–0 2–0 4–2 3–3 0–0 4–0 1–1 0–1 3–3 2–4 1–2 2–2 1–0
Chattanooga Red Wolves
(CHA)
LEX CV NCO TRM GVL OMA CLT TRM SPK RIC CLT OMA CV SPK KNX MAD GVL NCO KNX MAD RIC LEX
0–1 4–2 1–1 0–4 3–1 2–5 2–4 3–2 1–2 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–4 1–3 2–5 0–0 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–3
Forward Madison FC
(MAD)
TRM GVL CV RIC GVL SPK LEX TRM OMA RIC CV NCO OMA CLT LEX CHA SPK KNX CLT CHA KNX NCO
1–1 0–0 3–0 2–2 3–2 3–0 4–1 0–0 2–0 1–2 2–1 0–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 3–1 2–0 1–1 4–2 2–1 0–0 0–1
Greenville Triumph SC
(GVL)
SPK MAD LEX NCO CLT TRM MAD RIC CHA CLT KNX OMA KNX RIC NCO OMA CHA CV LEX SPK CV TRM
3–1 0–0 3–2 3–1 0–1 3–0 2–3 1–0 1–3 2–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–3 1–3 5–2 2–2 2–1 3–2 0–1 5–1
One Knoxville SC
(KNX)
CLT LEX TRM OMA RIC CV RIC NCO GVL TRM NCO GVL CHA SPK CLT LEX OMA MAD CHA CV MAD SPK
2–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 2–0 1–2 1–2 0–2 1–0 1–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–0
Lexington SC
(LEX)
NCO CHA KNX GVL TRM SPK MAD SPK OMA TRM RIC CLT CV MAD NCO KNX CV RIC GVL OMA CLT CHA
0–0 1–0 0–2 2–3 0–3 2–2 1–4 1–1 2–4 1–2 2–1 3–3 3–1 0–0 1–5 0–1 7–1 0–3 1–2 1–2 2–2 3–0
NoCo Hailstorm FC
(NCO)
LEX SPK GVL CHA OMA KNX RIC CV CLT KNX MAD RIC TRM GVL LEX OMA CHA CV TRM CLT SPK MAD
0–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 2–2 0–1 0–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 3–0 5–1 2–3 0–0 1–0 4–0 2–1 1–0 1–0
Richmond Kickers
(RIC)
SPK TRM CV MAD SPK KNX GVL KNX CV NCO MAD CHA LEX NCO GVL OMA CLT LEX OMA TRM CHA CLT
1–2 1–3 3–2 2–2 0–2 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 1–3 1–2 1–3 1–1 0–3 1–0 3–0 0–0 2–2 2–1 0–1
Spokane Velocity FC
(SPK)
GVL RIC NCO CLT LEX RIC MAD LEX CHA CLT TRM CHA KNX OMA CV TRM MAD OMA CV GVL NCO KNX
1–3 2–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 2–0 0–3 1–1 2–1 2–4 3–3 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–2 0–0 0–2 0–4 0–1 2–3 0–1 0–0
Tormenta FC
(TRM)
CV MAD RIC KNX LEX GVL OMA CHA CLT MAD CHA KNX LEX CV SPK NCO SPK CLT NCO RIC OMA GVL
1–2 1–1 3–1 0–1 3–0 0–3 2–4 4–0 1–1 0–0 2–3 0–1 2–1 2–3 3–3 1–1 0–0 3–3 0–4 2–2 2–3 1–5
Union Omaha
(OMA)
CV KNX CLT TRM CLT NCO CHA MAD LEX GVL CHA MAD RIC SPK GVL NCO KNX SPK RIC LEX TRM CV
2–1 1–0 0–0 4–2 4–1 1–2 5–2 0–2 4–2 1–0 0–1 2–2 3–0 1–2 3–1 3–2 1–0 4–0 0–0 2–1 3–2 3–1

Playoffs

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The 2024 USL League One Playoffs (branded as the 2024 USL League One Playoffs presented by TERMINIX for sponsorship reasons) was the post-season championship of the USL League One season.

Bracket

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Quarterfinals
November 2–3
Semifinals
November 9
Final
November 17
         
1 Union Omaha 1
8 Richmond Kickers 0
1 Union Omaha 2
4 Greenville Triumph SC 1
4 Greenville Triumph SC 2
5 One Knoxville SC 1
1 Union Omaha 3
7 Spokane Velocity FC 0
2 Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC 0
7 Spokane Velocity FC 3
7 Spokane Velocity FC (p) 0 (5)
3 Forward Madison FC 0 (4)
3 Forward Madison FC 2
6 Charlotte Independence 0

Schedule

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Quarterfinals

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November 2, 2024 (2024-11-02) Greenville Triumph SC 2–1One Knoxville SCGreenville, South Carolina
2:00 PM EDT
Report
Stadium: Paladin Stadium
Attendance: 1,637
Referee: Thomas Snyder
November 2, 2024 (2024-11-02) Forward Madison FC 2–0Charlotte IndependenceMadison, Wisconsin
6:00 PM CDT
Report
Stadium: Breese Stevens Field
Attendance: 3,953
Referee: Calin Radosav
November 2, 2024 (2024-11-02) Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC0–3 Spokane Velocity FC Windsor, Colorado
7:00 PM MDT
Report
Stadium: 4Rivers Equipment Stadium
Attendance: 1,601
Referee: Gerald Flores
November 3, 2024 (2024-11-03) Union Omaha 1–0Richmond KickersPapillion, Nebraska
2:30 PM CDT
Report
Stadium: Werner Park
Attendance: 2,245
Referee: Jeremy Scheer

Semifinals

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November 9, 2024 (2024-11-09) Union Omaha 2–1Greenville Triumph SCPapillion, Nebraska
4:00 PM CDT
Report
Stadium: Werner Park
Attendance: 3,053
Referee: Matthew Corrigan

USL League One Final

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November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17) Union Omaha 3–0Spokane Velocity FCPapillion, Nebraska
2:00 PM CST Report
Stadium: Werner Park
Attendance: 5,849
Referee: Adam Kilpatrick

Championship Game MVP: Joe Gallardo (OMA)

Attendance

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Average home attendances

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Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.

Team GP Total High Low Average
Richmond Kickers 11 51,387 5,574 3,551 4,672
Forward Madison FC 11 46,664 4,856 3,346 4,242
Spokane Velocity FC 11 41,818 5,086 3,108 3,802
Union Omaha 11 38,587 4,509 2,461 3,508
Chattanooga Red Wolves SC 11 24,876 3,447 1,526 2,261
Greenville Triumph SC 11* 19,581 3,734 1,251 1,958
One Knoxville SC 11 18,892 2,345 1,310 1,717
Lexington SC 11 16,799 3,125 1,041 1,527
Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC 11 14,556 2,236 1,063 1,323
South Georgia Tormenta FC 11 12,042 1,407 667 1,095
Charlotte Independence 11 11,842 2,307 530 1,077
Central Valley Fuego FC 11 8,010 1,000 397 728
Total 132 305,054 5,574 397 2,329

|Note= *One match for Greenville Triumph SC was played behind closed doors because of a storm.

Regular season statistical leaders

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As of October 26, 2024[14]

Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1 Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon Greenville Triumph SC 16
2 Honduras Juan Carlos Obregón Charlotte Independence 15
3 Brazil Pedro Dolabella Union Omaha 10
4 Ghana Ropapa Mensah Chattanooga Red Wolves SC 9
Germany Kempes Tekiela One Knoxville SC
6 England Cameron Lancaster Lexington SC 8
Argentina Sebastián Vivas South Georgia Tormenta FC
8 Colombia Leonardo Castro Greenville Triumph SC 7
Senegal Ates Diouf Lexington SC
Brazil Fonseca South Georgia Tormenta FC

Hat tricks

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Player Club Against Result Date
Ghana Ropapa Mensah Chattanooga Red Wolves SC Central Valley Fuego FC 4–2 (A)[15] April 13
Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon Greenville Triumph SC Chattanooga Red Wolves SC 5–2 (A)[16] September 14
England Cameron Lancaster Lexington SC Central Valley Fuego FC 7–1 (H)[17] September 18
Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Top assists

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Rank Player Club Assists
1 Honduras Alfredo Midence Central Valley Fuego FC 8
2 United States Derek Gebhard Forward Madison FC 5
United States Luis Gil Spokane Velocity FC
Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon Greenville Triumph SC
France Gabriel Obertan Charlotte Independence
Spain Nil Vinyals Richmond Kickers
United States Ben Zakowski Greenville Triumph SC
8 Senegal Ates Diouf Lexington SC 4
Brazil Pedro Dolabella Union Omaha
United States Joe Gallardo Union Omaha
United States Callum Johnson One Knoxville SC
Liberia Joel Johnson Charlotte Independence
Serbia Stefan Lukic Chattanooga Red Wolves
United States Isidro Martinez Northern Colorado Hailstorm
United States Wolfgang Prentice Forward Madison FC
United States Zion Scarlett Greenville Triumph SC

Clean sheets

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Rank Player Club Shutouts
1 United States Lalo Delgado Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC 9
Philippines Bernd Schipmann Forward Madison FC
3 United States Sean Lewis One Knoxville SC 7
Ghana Rashid Nuhu Union Omaha
5 United States Austin Pack Charlotte Independence 5
6 Jamaica Amal Knight Lexington SC 4
United States Ford Parker South Georgia Tormenta FC
8 United States Christian Garner Greenville Triumph SC 3
Germany Gunther Rankenburg Greenville Triumph SC
United States James Sneddon Richmond Kickers
United States Brooks Thompson Spokane Velocity FC

League awards

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Individual awards

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Award Winner Team Reason Ref.
Golden Boot Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon Greenville Triumph SC 16 goals [18]
Golden Glove United States Sean Lewis One Knoxville SC 7 shutouts; 0.73 goals against average; 52 saves [18]
Golden Playmaker Honduras Alfredo Midence Central Valley Fuego 8 assists [18]
Goalkeeper of the Year United States Sean Lewis One Knoxville SC 0.73 goals against average; 7 shutouts; 52 saves [19]
Defender of the Year Cuba Bruno Rendón Northern Colorado Hailstorm 169 duels won [20]
Young Player of the Year Honduras Alfredo Midence Central Valley Fuego Led the league with 8 assists [21]
Coach of the Year England Dominic Casciato Union Omaha Back-to-back Players' Shields [22]
Player of the Year Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon Greenville Triumph SC 16 goals; 5 assists [23]
Comeback Player of the Year United States Clay Dimick Charlotte Independence Played entire season after back surgery. [24]

All-league teams

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First team[25]
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
United States Sean Lewis (KNX) Australia Mitch Osmond (MAD)
Cuba Bruno Rendón (NCO)
England Jordan Skelton (KNX)
Honduras Luis Álvarez (CLT)
United States Devin Boyce (MAD)
Brazil Pedro Dolabella (OMA)
United States Luis Gil (SPK)
United States Ethan Hoard (NCO)
Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon (GVL)
Honduras Juan Carlos Obregón (CLT)
Second team[25]
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
United States Lalo Delgado (NCO) United States Simon Fitch (RIC)
Spain David García (NCO)
United States Nick Spielman (CLT)
Senegal Ates Diouf (LEX)
United States Chapa Herrera (GVL)
United States Evan Lee (GVL)
United States Jimmie Villalobos (MAD)
Brazil Pedro Fonseca (TRM)
Honduras Alfredo Midence (CV)
Spain Nil Vinyals (RIC)

Monthly awards

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Month Player of the Month Coach of the Month References
Player Club Position Coach Club
March Honduras Angelo Kelly-Rosales One Knoxville SC Midfielder Scotland Mark McKeever One Knoxville SC [26][27]
April Ghana Ropapa Mensah Chattanooga Red Wolves SC Forward United States Mike Jeffries Charlotte Independence [28][29]
May Brazil Pedro Dolabella Union Omaha Midfielder England Dominic Casciato Union Omaha [30][31]
June Honduras Juan Carlos Obregón Charlotte Independence Forward United States Matt Glaeser Forward Madison FC [32][33]
July Honduras Alfredo Midence Central Valley Fuego FC Forward United States Mike Jeffries Charlotte Independence [34][35]
August United States Ethan Hoard Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC Forward England Darren Powell Lexington SC [36][37]
September Switzerland Lyam MacKinnon Greenville Triumph SC Midfielder England Dominic Casciato Union Omaha [38][39]
October United States Lalo Delgado Northern Colorado Hailstorm Goalkeeper Libya Éamon Zayed Northern Colorado Hailstorm [40][41]

Weekly awards

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