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Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008)
Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008)
Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008)
History
In the summer of 2001, the National Professional Soccer League disbanded. The six surviving teams organized the MISL as a single-entity structure similar to Major League Soccer. In 2002, the MISL absorbed two teams from the World Indoor Soccer League, the Dallas Sidekicks and San Diego Sockers. The St. Louis Steamers, another former WISL team, joined the following year. On May 27, 2008, Commissioner Steve Ryan stepped down as the commissioner of the MISL, and then on June 2, 2008, the Management Committee of the MISL announced they had ceased operations effective May 31, 2008 to reform the league. All of the MISL’s teams from its last season joined either the NISL, PASL-Pro, or the XSL..
Sport Founded Country(ies)
Indoor Soccer 2001 United States and Mexico 2008 Baltimore Blast Fox Soccer Channel http://www.misl.net
Ceased Last champion(s) TV partner(s) Official website
Organization
The MISL was organized in a single table playing a 30 game schedule. Traditionally, the season began in October and ended in March. The league also conducted an All-Star Game at midseason. It pitted Eastern teams against Western teams and USA All-Stars against World All-Stars as well as the MISL All-Stars against a Mexican team. No All-Star Game was played in the 2004-2005 and 2006-2007 seasons. The All-Star game scheduled for the 2007-08 season in Stockton, California was also canceled. The top six teams qualified for the playoffs, which began in April. In the first round, the sixth place team played the third place team while the fourth and fifth place teams also played either other. The top two teams received a bye in the first round. The survivors of the first round played the top two seeds in the semifinals with the first place team playing the lowest surviving seed from the first round and the second place team playing the highest surviving seed. The two semi-final winners met in the MISL Championship Final. The first two rounds were a two game series with a golden goal tie breaker.
The Major Indoor Soccer League was the top professional indoor soccer league in the USA. The league was a member of both the United States Soccer Federation and FIFA. The MISL had replaced the NPSL which folded in 2001. According to MISL.net, the league has ceased operations as of May 31, 2008. "We are considering structural changes that will bring us greater efficiencies, while also allowing long term growth and expansion of the League," said John Hantz, former Chairman of the MISL, and Owner/Operator of the Detroit Ignition. [1] All the teams from MISL went to the new indoor leagues: NISL, PASL-PRO and the XSL. The NISL and XSL will use the same playing rules as the MISL.
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Team Baltimore Blast California Cougars[2] Chicago Storm Cleveland Force/ Crunch Dallas Sidekicks Detroit Ignition Harrisburg Heat City/Area Baltimore, Maryland Stockton, California
Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008)
Arena 1st Mariner Arena Stockton Arena Sears Centre Wolstein Center Reunion Arena Compuware Arena Pennsylvania State Farm Show Arena Kemper Arena U.S. Cellular Arena Arena Monterrey Monterrey Arena Prudential Center Amway Arena Wachovia Spectrum Family Arena/Savvis Center San Diego Sports Arena In addition to national television, certain games were shown in local markets over local cable networks like CN8.
Hoffman Estates, Illinois (Chicago area) Cleveland, Ohio Dallas, Texas Plymouth Township, Michigan (Detroit area) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Kansas City Comets Kansas City, Missouri Milwaukee Wave Monterrey Fury/ Tigres Monterrey La Raza Orlando Sharks Philadelphia KiXX St. Louis Steamers San Diego Sockers Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monterrey, Nuevo León Monterrey, Mexico Orlando, Florida Philadelphia, Pennsylvania St. Louis, Missouri San Diego, California
New Jersey Ironmen Newark, New Jersey
The Championship Final was a single game at a predetermined neutral site.
Television
The MISL has a relative lack of television coverage for being a national professional sports league. In February 2007, the league and Versus announced a partnership to deliver a nationally televised game of the week starting in March 2007. For the 2006 - 2007 season, Versus broadcast two regular season games, a MISL Championship Series Semifinal game on April 14, and the MISL Championship Series Final. Additionally, the MISL produced its first-ever live magazine show to preview the 2007 MISL Championship Series. Before the 2006 - 2007 season, national television coverage was limited to the MISL Championships of the 2004 - 2005 and 2005 2006 seasons, which were shown on ESPN2. For the 2007-08, the MISL signed an agreement with Fox Soccer Channel to televise 20 games that season.
MISL teams Annual awards MISL Championship series
MISL Championships Won Championship formats
Rules
The MISL game was the standard North American version of indoor soccer. It was different from the FIFA-sanctioned futsal. Each MISL game consisted of four 15-minute quarters. There were breaks
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Season Date(s) Champion 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Philadelphia KiXX Baltimore Blast Baltimore Blast Milwaukee Wave Baltimore Blast
Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008)
Host Milwaukee/Philadelphia Baltimore/Milwaukee Baltimore/Milwaukee Milwaukee/St. Louis Baltimore/St. Louis Detroit Milwaukee
Series Runner-Up 2-1 2-1 3-0 2-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 Milwaukee Wave Milwaukee Wave Milwaukee Wave Cleveland Force St. Louis Steamers Detroit Ignition Monterrey La Raza
2006-07 4/21/07 Philadelphia KiXX 2007-08 4/25/08 Baltimore Blast Team Baltimore Blast Philadelphia KiXX Milwaukee Wave Series Single game Two game plus golden goal series Best-of-three series Best-of-five series
Championships 4 2 1
Winning years 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 2002, 2007 2005 Years 2007, 2008 2005, 2006 2002, 2003 2004 All red cards in the MISL resulted in a two minute power play. Red cards were awarded for violent conduct or accumulation of cards (3 blues or 2 yellows). Originally, the MISL had a multiple point scoring system where goals were worth 1, 2, or 3 points depending upon the distance that they were scored or game situation. The former WISL teams objected to this. After the 2003 Championship, the league began using a traditional one-point-per-goal rule because of a controversial goal scored during the deciding game. However, the league went back to multipoint scoring in 2006 with 2- and 3-point goals.
between the first two and the last two quarters. There was also a 15-minute halftime. Ties resulted in consecutive 15-minute sudden death overtimes. An MISL field was roughly the size of an ice hockey rink, measuring 200 feet by 80 feet. Goals measured 14 feet by 8 feet and are set into the boards. Players were allowed to bounce the ball off the dasher boards. Play stopped if the ball leaves the field of play. During an MISL game, each team was allowed to have 6 players on the field at a time. One player was the goalkeeper who handled the ball while in the penalty arc. The other players were generally divided as two defenders, one midfielder, and two forwards. Substitution was unlimited and may happen "on the fly" during play. Fouls and misconducts were generally the same as outdoor soccer with a few changes. First, all kicks were direct, with no whistle to restart play, which usually resulted in a "quick start". Also, the MISL utilized blue cards in addition to the traditional yellow and red cards of outdoor soccer. Blue cards were for fouls that earn possible two minute power plays. Yellow cards were given for dissent, resulting in a 5 minute penalty but the offending team did not play short.
Average attendance Notes
[1] http://www.misl.net/news/ index.php?cat=3&id=5375 [2] PASL
See also
• Index of Professional Sports teams in the United States and Canada • Sports league attendances
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Year 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Seasons 7
Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008)
Record 5,065 5,420 5,587 4,388 4,737 4,711 4,577 Average 4,957 • MISL Rules
External links
• MISL
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