United States Adult Soccer Association

The United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) is a national organization for amateur soccer in the United States. It consists of 54 state associations in four regions, as well as national, regional, and state leagues. It compares to the United States Youth Soccer Association and its 54 affiliated State Associations - as it was once all one bodied structure.

United States Adult Soccer Association

Founded	1982; 41 years ago (1982)
Country	United States
Confederation	CONCACAF
Domestic cup(s)	National Amateur Cup US Open Cup
Website	usadultsoccer.com

History

The USASA was founded in 1982 at the first metting of the Senior Division of the United States Soccer Federation. Later that year, the United States Soccer Federation reorganized and the senior division became a separate member. The USASA has been known as United States Senior Soccer Division, the United States Soccer Association, the United States Amateur Soccer Association, and finally its current name of the United States Adult Soccer Association.^[1]

Presidents

Years	Name	Organization	Ref.
1982–1983	Millton Aimi	Texas South	^[1]
1983–1984	Jim Depew	Texas North
1984–1989	Edward Nunes	California North
1989–1991	Millton Aimi	Texas South
1991–1997	Gianfranco Borroni	Ohio North
1997–2006	Mike Edwards	New Mexico
2006–2010	Brooks McCormick	Florida
2010–2014	Richard Groff	Eastern Pennsylvania
2014–present	John Motta	New Hampshire

Organization

USASA is governed by an executive committee composed of a president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, four regional directors, two at-large members, and an independent director. They meet every two to three months.^[1]

USASA is organized into four regions — Region I, Region II, Region III, Region IV. Which breakdown into the 54 affiliated state associations. In addition to these state associations, USASA's rules provide for national leagues and regional leagues. National Leagues must extend across all four time-zones, have 36 teams and play for a minimum of three months.^[1]

USASA has two men's, National Premier Soccer League and United Premier Soccer League and two women's, Women's Premier Soccer League and United Women's Soccer national affiliates designed to promote a high level of competition together along with its 54 affiliated State Associations.^[2]

USASA rules also provide for multi-state leagues, that must have four states, sixteen teams, and plays for at least three months per year.^[1] USASA's multi-state leagues are Cascadia Premier League, Eastern Development Program, Eastern Premier Soccer League, Gulf Coast Premier League, Mountain Premier League, National Independent Soccer Association, Southwest Premier League, and West Coast Soccer Association.^[3]

State Premier Leagues

League	State Association	Region	Ref.
Cosmopolitan Soccer League	Eastern New York State Soccer Association	Region I	^[3]
Long Island Soccer Football League	Eastern New York State Soccer Association
United Soccer League of Pennsylvania	Eastern Pennsylvania Soccer Association
Maryland Super Soccer League	Maryland State Soccer Association
Washington Premier League	Maryland State Soccer Association
DC Premier League	Maryland State Soccer Association
Buffalo & District Soccer League	Western New York Soccer Association
Rochester District Soccer League	Western New York Soccer Association
Michigan Premier Soccer League	Michigan Soccer Association	Region II
Michigan Premier Soccer League	Michigan Soccer Association	Region III
American Premier Soccer League	Florida Adult Soccer Association
Central Florida Soccer League	Florida Adult Soccer Association
Florida Suncoast Soccer League	Florida Adult Soccer Association
Atlanta District Amateur Soccer League	Georgia Soccer
Colorado Super League	Colorado Soccer	Region IV
San Francisco Soccer Football League	California Soccer Association North
Utah Soccer Premiership Soccer League	Utah Adult Soccer
Wasatch Women Soccer League	Utah Adult Soccer
Evergreen Premier League	Washington State Adult Soccer Association
Northwest Premier League	Washington State Adult Soccer Association

State and local associations operate leagues under the umbrella of the USASA. The national organization is split into four regions:

Region I^[4] Connecticut State Soccer Association^[5] Delaware Soccer Association^[6] Maryland State Soccer Association^[7] Mass Adult State Soccer^[8] New Hampshire Soccer Association^[9] New Jersey Soccer Association^[10] Eastern New York State Soccer Association^[11] Western New York Soccer Association^[12] Eastern Pennsylvania Soccer Association^[13] PA West^[14] Rhode Island Soccer Association^[15] Vermont State Soccer Association^[16] Metropolitan DC-Virginia Soccer Association^[17] West Virginia Soccer Association^[18]

Region II^[19] Illinois State Soccer Association^[20] Indiana Soccer^[21] Iowa Soccer^[22] Kansas Soccer Association^[23] Kentucky Soccer Association^[24] Michigan Soccer Association^[25] Minnesota Soccer Association^[26] Missouri Soccer Association^[27] Nebraska State Soccer^[28] North Dakota Soccer Association^[29] Ohio Soccer Assoc. — North^[30] Southern Ohio Adult Soccer Association^[31] South Dakota Adult Soccer Association^[32] Wisconsin Adult Soccer Association^[33]

Region III^[34] Alabama Soccer Association^[35] Arkansas Soccer Association^[36] Florida Adult Soccer Association^[37] Georgia Soccer^[38] Louisiana Soccer Association^[39] Mississippi Soccer Association^[40] North Carolina Adult Soccer Association^[41] Oklahoma Soccer Association^[42] South Carolina Amateur Soccer Association^[43] Tennessee Soccer^[44] Texas North Soccer^[45] Texas State Soccer Association — South^[46]

'Region IV^[47] Alaska Adult Soccer Association^[48] Arizona State Soccer Association^[49] California Soccer Association North^[50] California South^[51] Colorado Soccer^[52] Hawaii Soccer Association^[53] Idaho State Soccer Association^[54] Montana State Soccer Association^[55] Nevada State Soccer Association New Mexico State Soccer Association^[56] Oregon Adult Soccer Association^[57] Utah Adult Soccer^[58] Washington State Adult Soccer Association^[59] Wyoming Soccer^[60]

Affiliated Amateur Adult Leagues

Main article: List of USASA affiliated leagues

Competitions

The USASA National Amateur Cup

The National Amateur Cup is the most prestigious and longest running tournament for all of amateur soccer in the entire country, crowning its first champion, Fleisher Yarn in 1924.^[61]

To qualify for the national tournament a team must win their respective regional cup. The winner of this tournament is awarded the Fritz Marth Amateur Cup.^[62] In addition to the trophy the winner of the National Amateur Cup is awarded an entry into both the Hank Steinbrecher Cup, and the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup,^[61] which has been in existence since 1914.^[63]

Hank Steinbrecher Cup

In 2013, USASA began a competition to pit the champions of the different men's amateur competitions (USASA National Amateur Cup, National Premier Soccer League, USL League Two and defending Hank Steinbrecher Cup holder) against each other for the title of "Champions of Champions"^[64]

Year	Winner	Result	Runner-up	Third Place	Result	Fourth Place
2013	Carolina Dynamo	1–1 (3–2 PKs)	Lehigh Valley United Sonic	Croatian Eagles	3–1	Battery Park Gunners
2014	RWB Adria	1–0	Sonoma County Sol	NTX Rayados		Ocean City Nor'easters
2015	Chattanooga FC^[65]	3–0	Michigan Bucks	Maryland Bays		New York Greek Americans
2016	Chicago Fire U23^[66]^[67]^[68]	2–1	Chattanooga FC	Quinto Elemento FC		West Chester United
2017	Michigan Bucks	3–0	AFC Cleveland	Chicago FC United	4–0	Christos FC
2018	Michigan Bucks^[69]	2–0	Charlotte Eagles	Lansdowne Bhoys FC	2–1	Elm City Express
2019	Flint City Bucks^[70]	3–0	Chicago FC United	FC Motown	3-1	Milwaukee Bavarian SC^[71]
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021
2022	Flint City Bucks^[72]	2–1	Denton Diablos FC	Lansdowne Bhoys FC		Houston Regals
2023	West Chester United SC^[73]	4–4 (4–2 PKs)	Ventura County Fusion	FC Olympians		Athletico Olanchano

The Adult Soccer Fest

Established in 1998,^[74] the Adult Soccer Fest is formally known as the Veteran's Cup and is a 5–day event sponsored by USASA for teams with players 30 years and older. Matches for Over–30 teams to Over–70 mens are played in an 11 v 11 format, while Over–70 women and Over–75 teams play in an 7 v 7 format.^[75]

See also

• List of USASA affiliated leagues

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External links

• USASA
• USASA Adult Soccer Fest