Green Bay USL League Two Announces 2019 Schedule
Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, Wednesday, January 30, 2019: The newly rebranded USL League Two announced its regular season matchups on Wednesday, with Green Bay USL League Two to host seven league matches at Capital Credit Union Park during the summer of 2019. All season tickets holders will see those seven matches as well as an additional three exhibition matches with opponents TBD. Six of Green Bay’s seven league home matches will kick off at 7:00pm with two matches starting in the afternoon.
Green Bay League Two will start its season on the road at Des Moines Menace on May 11th. Its last regular season home match is slated for July 14th against Thunder Bay Chill. The closest road matches will be that season opener on May 11th, with the team traveling as far as Winnipeg, Manitoba during the season.
The team will play in the Heartland Division of League Two’s Central Conference. The top two teams from each division will make the playoffs on the path to deciding a conference champion before moving on to a league championship playoff scenario. The playoffs will run July 20th-August 3rd.
More information on live streams and single game tickets for home matches will be made available closer to the season’s beginning. Season ticket information can be found at https://sportsengine-staging.go-vip.net/forwardmadisonfc/green-bay-tickets. Green Bay League Two’s schedule is subject to change.
About Green Bay USL League Two: Green Bay is a member of USL League Two and will begin play in May 2019 in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference. The team name, colors and crest are being developed with input from the public to build a team that truly represents the community. The team will play its home games at the new Capital Credit Union Park. The multi-purpose stadium opens in May at 2231 Holmgren Way, less than a mile from historic Lambeau Field, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers. It is very accessible throughout Northeastern Wisconsin, less than 30 minutes from the youth soccer hotbed of Appleton, WI and 15 minutes from the ten-field Akzo-Nobel Soccer Complex in Howard, WI. Information about Capital Credit Union Park can be found here.
About USL League Two: USL League Two is a pre-professional league affiliated with USL Championship, USL League One and Major League Soccer (MLS). Expected opponents in the Heartland Division include WSA Winnipeg, Thunder Bay Chill, Kaw Valley FC, Des Moines Menace and St. Louis Lions. The proven developmental leader in North American soccer’s evolving tiered structure, USL League Two (formerly the PDL) features more than 70 franchises in four conferences throughout the United States and Canada, including 18 clubs that are owned and operated by a professional club, or that hold a partnership with a professional club. League Two has proven to be an important stepping-stone for top professionals now playing throughout the world, with more than 70 percent of all selections in the MLS SuperDraft since 2010 having PDL experience, including over 80 percent of selections in the 2019 SuperDraft.
