Nashville SC

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Nashville SC
Nashville SC MLS 2020.svg
Full nameNashville Soccer Club
Nickname(s)Coyotes, Boys in Gold [1]
FoundedMay 19, 2016;8 years ago (2016-05-19) [nb 1]
Stadium Geodis Park
Nashville, Tennessee
Capacity30,000
Owners
List
CEO Ian Ayre
Head coach B. J. Callaghan
League Major League Soccer
2024 Eastern Conference: 13th
Overall: 25th
Playoffs: Did not qualify
Website nashvillesc.com
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

Nashville Soccer Club is an American professional soccer club based in Nashville, Tennessee. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team spent two seasons in the USL Championship before joining MLS as an expansion team. The club plays its home matches at Geodis Park, the largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States. It is principally owned by John Ingram, owner of Ingram Industries, along with investors and partial owners the Turner family of Dollar General Stores.

Contents

History

Soccer in Nashville

Prior to the arrival of Nashville's MLS team, the city had various soccer teams which played in the lower divisions of American soccer. The most notable teams were the Nashville Metros who played from 1989 until 2012 and Nashville FC, who played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) from 2013 to 2016. The city also hosts two NCAA Division I men's soccer teams, the Belmont Bruins and Lipscomb Bisons. The Vanderbilt Commodores also played Division I men's soccer until the team's demise after the 2005 season. Prior to these teams, the Nashville Diamonds participated in the then-second division American Soccer League for one season in 1982. [7]

The NPSL team, Nashville FC, was founded by a supporters group that intended to form a team as a fan-owned group. Chris Jones, Nashville FC's president, cited existing fan-owned clubs as inspiration for NFC's foundation, in particular the English club F.C. United of Manchester. [8] In February 2014, the two groups merged to form a single club for the 2014 NPSL season. The club had two teams participating in the Middle Tennessee Soccer Alliance, Nashville's largest competitive adult league, and had partnered with the Tennessee State Soccer Association (TSSA), an organization with over 20,000 registered players in the Middle Tennessee area alone. [9] The team played its matches at Vanderbilt Stadium. [10] The NPSL club had ambitions of climbing the American soccer pyramid, with the reported target an entry into the then third-tier United Soccer League (USL; now known as the USL Championship) by 2017, [11] and then ascension into the Division II North American Soccer League by 2020. [8] However, in 2016, the USL awarded a franchise to a separate ownership group in Nashville. Nashville FC subsequently sold its team name, logo, and color scheme to the new USL franchise, which became known as Nashville SC, in exchange for a 1 percent equity stake in the USL team and a voting seat on its board. [12] Former 2010 MLS Cup winning coach Gary Smith was announced as the team's first manager in April 2017. [13] [14] On February 10, 2018, Nashville SC competed in their first game; in preseason against Atlanta United FC. [15] In the rain-soaked contest, Nashville was defeated by Atlanta, 3–1, in front of 9,059 spectators. [16]

Expansion bid

In August 2016, a group of Nashville business leaders led by Bill Hagerty formed the Nashville MLS Organizing Committee and began efforts to secure funding for an MLS stadium. [17] The group fully supported the recently awarded USL expansion team, Nashville SC, which began play in 2018. Both groups supported each other in their common vision to grow the sport in Tennessee. [18] In October 2017, the group unveiled their plans for $275 million stadium and redevelopment project, [19] [20] which was approved by the city in November. [21]

Nashville SC players: Ropapa Mensah, Tucker Hume, Matt LaGrassa, Alan Winn, in 2018 CINvNSH 2018-10-20 - Ropapa Mensah, Tucker Hume, Matt LaGrassa, Alan Winn (40597451173).jpg
Nashville SC players: Ropapa Mensah, Tucker Hume, Matt LaGrassa, Alan Winn, in 2018

The formal bid to add an MLS franchise to Nashville began in January 2017. On March 4, 2017, businessman John Ingram, under the entity Nashville Holdings LLC, bought a majority stake in DMD Soccer, the ownership group of Nashville SC. [22] Ingram also headed up the bid to bring an MLS franchise to Nashville, [23] and the partnership between Ingram and Nashville SC was an effort to present a united front to MLS after Nashville was named one of ten finalist cities for four MLS franchises. [24]

MLS officially awarded an expansion team to Nashville on December 20, 2017, and announced that they would join the league in 2020. [25] Mike Jacobs and Ian Ayre was announced as the Nashville's first general manager and CEO respectively. [26]

MLS

Nashville SC's inaugural MLS match was February 29, 2020, with the club hosting Atlanta United FC at Nissan Stadium. [27] The game was played in front of 59,069, becoming the highest attended soccer event in Tennessee. [28] Walker Zimmerman scored the team's first goal in the 2–1 loss. [29] The inaugural season came to a halt on March 12, 2020, after only two games when the MLS suspended the season for thirty days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, [30] then extended to until May 10, 2020. On June 10, MLS announced MLS is Back Tournament, but Nashville were unable to participate in the tournament due to multiple COVID cases on the team. Their next game was an August 12 win against FC Dallas. Nashville SC finished the 2020 regular season 8–8–7 with 32 points. They entered the MLS Cup playoffs in the play-in round defeating Inter Miami 3–0 and knocking off Toronto FC 1–0 in the first round, before being defeated by the eventual champions Columbus Crew in the conference semi-finals in extra time. [31] The 2021 season saw Nashville perform well defensively, only allowing a tied for league-leading 33 goals and going undefeated at home. [32] [33] The 2021 team would also tie a league record for draws in a season at 18. Nashville returned to the playoffs, but was again eliminated in the conference semi-finals, this time by Philadelphia Union in a penalty shootout. [34] 2022 saw both the opening of Geodis Park and Hany Mukhtar winning both the Landon Donovan MVP and Golden Boot awards after being a finalist for the former in the previous season. [35] Mukhtar led the league with 34 goal contributions, nearly two thirds of Nashville's goals in 2022 and leading the team to a third consecutive playoff berth. [36] [37] Despite Mukhtar's success the club was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the LA Galaxy. [38]

Club crest and colors

Nashville SC's primary colors are electric gold and acoustic blue, referencing the colors of Nashville’s flag. The club's crest is a gold octagon with a monogram "N" and several vertical bars in blue. The vertical bars were chosen to represent sound waves and vibrations, referencing the city's musical history. [39] [3] [40]

Sponsorship

PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsorSleeve sponsorRef.
2018–2019 Under Armour Nissan — [41]
2020–present Adidas Renasant Bank Hyundai [42]

Supporters

Nashville SC's original organized supporter group is The Roadies. Established in February 2014 with the creation of Nashville FC, the city's NPSL amateur franchise with the club's transition from NPSL amateur to USL pro status and finally MLS, The Roadies similarly transitioned to maintain their support for "Our Town, Our Club". [43]

Stadium

The team plays at the 30,000 seat Geodis Park, the largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States. [44] [45] The $275 million stadium was mostly funded by revenue bonds from the Nashville government, per an agreement with the Nashville Metro Council that was approved in November 2017. [46] The council approved the stadium on September 4, 2018, in front of an audience with mixed opinions on the project, with the votes 31-yes and 8-no. A proposal to submit the plan to a referendum based on Metro government's "partial funding" was rejected by the council, with the votes 25-yes (to reject the referendum) and 12-no (to permit). [47]

In January 2019, John Rose, a U.S. representative from Cookeville led the nonprofit that operates the Tennessee State Fair to sue the team to halt construction, citing that the stadium would not leave adequate space required for the functions of the fair. [48] However, in February of the same year, Rose and the nonprofit dismissed the lawsuit citing that city officials would not meet with the nonprofit while this suit was pending. [49] Demolition on the Fairgrounds site began in March 2020. [50]

The agreement of the stadium and its funding details was amended on February 13, 2020, with the help of Nashville Mayor John Cooper to make the stadium 100 percent privately funded with the team will also funding $19 million of infrastructure improvements in the immediate area. [51]

Nashville, during the USL era primarily played at First Tennessee Park before switching to Nissan Stadium for their first two seasons in MLS. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were limited seating capacity in their tenure while using Nissan Stadium.

Players and staff

Current roster

As of December 19, 2024 [52]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Joe Willis
2 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Daniel Lovitz
5 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jack Maher
8 MF Flag of Costa Rica.svg  CRC Randall Leal
9 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Sam Surridge
10 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Hany Mukhtar
11 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Tyler Boyd
12 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Teal Bunbury
14 MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN Jacob Shaffelburg
15 MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Patrick Yazbek
18 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Shaq Moore
19 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Alex Muyl
No.Pos.NationPlayer
22 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Josh Bauer
23 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Taylor Washington
24 MF Flag of Mexico.svg  MEX Jonathan Pérez (on loan from LA Galaxy)
25 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Walker Zimmerman
28 FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN Woobens Pacius
29 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Julian Gaines
30 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Elliot Panicco
47 MF Flag of Sierra Leone.svg  SLE Isaiah Jones
77 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Adem Sipić
— MF Flag of Uruguay.svg  URU Gastón Brugman
— MF Flag of Norway.svg  NOR Edvard Tagseth

Staff

As of May 16, 2024 [53]
Technical Staff
Head coach B.J. Callaghan
Assistant coachJohn Bello
Goalkeeping coachvacant
General managerMike Jacobs
Assistant general managerOliver Miller-Farrell
Chief scout Luke Sassano

Team records

Seasons

This table of the last few Nashville SC seasons is an excerpt from List of Nashville SC seasons § Seasons.[ edit ]
SeasonLeaguePositionPlayoffs USOC Continental / Other Average
attendance 		Top goalscorer(s)
DivLeagueConPldWLDGFGAGDPtsPPGConf.OverallPlayer(s)Goals
2018 2 USL E 34121394231+11491.448th17th R1 Ro16 DNQ9,561 Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Allen 9
2019 USLC 3420775926+33671.972nd3rd QF R3 DNQ6,999 Flag of Mexico.svg Daniel Ríos 21
2020 1 MLS E [a] 238782422+2321.397th14th QF NH MLS is Back Tournament DNE 12,925 Flag of Germany.svg Hany Mukhtar 5
2021 MLS 34124185533+22541.593rd7th QF NH DNQ19,338 Flag of Germany.svg Hany Mukhtar 19
2022 MLS W 341310115241+11501.475th10th R1 QF DNQ27,554 Flag of Germany.svg Hany Mukhtar 26 ♦
2023 MLS E 2411853122+9381.584th6th R1 R16 Leagues Cup RU 28,604 Flag of Germany.svg Hany Mukhtar 17
Total–––183764958263175+882901.58–––––– Flag of Germany.svg Hany Mukhtar 67

^ 1. Avg. attendance include statistics from league matches only.
^ 2. Top goalscorer(s) includes all goals scored in League, Playoffs, U.S. Open Cup, MLS is Back Tournament, Leagues Cup, CONCACAF Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup, and other competitive continental matches.

  1. ↑ In 2020, Nashville SC switched from the Western Conference to the Eastern Conference after playing 2 matches.

Honors

Player records

Statistics include all competitive matches since Nashville SC entered the MLS in 2020. Current players on the club's roster are shown in bold.

As of October 29, 2024 [54] [55]

Most appearances

RankNameNat.Period MLS PO OC LC CCC Total
1 Alex Muyl Flag of the United States.svg 2020–1457684170
2 Hany Mukhtar Flag of Germany.svg 2020–1458493169
3 Joe Willis Flag of the United States.svg 2020–1518153168
4 Daniel Lovitz Flag of the United States.svg 2020–1398593164
5 Walker Zimmerman Flag of the United States.svg 2020–1268372146
6 Aníbal Godoy Flag of Panama.svg 2020–20241116194131
7 Brian Anunga Flag of Cameroon.svg 2020–20241097633128
8 Jack Maher Flag of the United States.svg 2020–1104652127
9 Dax McCarty Flag of the United States.svg 2020–20231057360121
10 Randall Leal Flag of Costa Rica.svg 2020–1056320116

Top goalscorers

RankNameNat.Period MLS PO OC LC CCC Total [a] Ratio
1 Hany Mukhtar Flag of Germany.svg 2020–66432176(169)0.45
2 Sam Surridge Flag of England.svg 2023–14004220(47)0.43
3 C. J. Sapong Flag of the United States.svg 2021–202317010018(80)0.23
4 Randall Leal Flag of Costa Rica.svg 2020–16100017(116)0.15
5 Walker Zimmerman Flag of the United States.svg 2020–13002015(146)0.10
6 Alex Muyl Flag of the United States.svg 2020–11021014(170)0.08
7 Teal Bunbury Flag of the United States.svg 2022–11001012(88)0.14
8 Jacob Shaffelburg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 2022–7001210(77)0.13
9 Fafà Picault Flag of Haiti.svg 2023501309(39)0.23
10 Daniel Ríos Flag of Mexico.svg 2020–2021510006(33)0.18
  1. ↑ Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made.

Notes

  1. ↑ Club founded in 2016. MLS franchise granted in 2017. [2]

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