An indoor soccer match in the boards era: an attacker strikes the ball against the perimeter boards while a defender lunges across the turf, spectators pressed behind the plexiglass. (AI-generated image)
AI-generated image, not archive photography — a depiction of the boards-era game. No real match, player or date is represented.
MISL.netDigital archive

Notouchlines.The MISL archive of indoor soccer, 1978—2014

Soccer compressed into an arena: closer crowds, faster decisions and one extra player on every attack — the wall.

14Seasons
27Cities
3Eras
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Introduction / 00

Indoor soccer did not make the field smaller. It made every second bigger.

Born from the need to keep playing through North American winters, MISL transformed association football into a new arena language — one where rebounds are passes and spectators sit inside the action.
The archive / 01

The MISL news
archive.

Signings, awards, drafts and season news from across the league.

2005-02-01Baltimore Will Induct Wittman, Savage, And Foreman Into Hall Baltimore Blast · Cleveland Force 2002-10-03FORCE ROSTER TAKING SHAPE Cleveland Force 2009-11-02THE NEW FACE OF INDOOR SOCCER Baltimore Blast · Philadelphia KiXX 2007-04-072006-07 MISL Season Awards Milwaukee Wave · Detroit Ignition 2010-08-16Former Comets Star Kim Roentved Set to Lead Team Kansas City Comets · Wichita Wings 2003-07-23STEAMERS BUILD ROSTER WITH LOCAL BASE Baltimore Blast · St. Louis Steamers 2010-10-182010-11 MISL REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED Baltimore Blast · Milwaukee Wave
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Where to go / 02

Four ways
into the league.

The archive is the spine. These are the routes through it.

01

The archive

Signings, awards, drafts and season news, 2002 to 2010.

 02

Records

14 league honours and all 59 picks of the 2005 dispersal draft.

 03

Players

Every player named in a surviving MISL.net document, with the source.

 04

The eras

Three separate leagues carried the name across thirty-six years.

And the mechanic that made it a different sport  →

Arena network / 03

27 cities, one indoor soccer language.

Hover or tap the nodes to explore a few of the markets that carried the league across North America.

Selected arena

New York

The opening dynasty: the Arrows won the first four MISL championships and defined the league’s earliest identity.

NY / Node 01New York Arrows

Four consecutive championships.

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Questions

Frequently asked

What was the Major Indoor Soccer League?

An indoor version of association football played in North American arenas. The MISL name covered three separate competitions across thirty-six years — 1978 to 1992, 2001 to 2008, and 2008 to 2014 — fourteen seasons in all, with teams based in twenty-seven cities. The league is defunct; the last era ended in 2014.

What does this archive hold?

Fifty league and match reports filed between 2002 and 2010, and five documents the league published alongside them: three editions of its rulebook (2004-05 and 2005-06 in forty pages each, 2006 in forty-one), the 5 January 2005 San Diego and Monterrey dispersal draft, and the 2010-11 regular-season schedule. The reports are the league's own text, recovered from dated captures and served as filed.

How is indoor soccer different from the outdoor game?

There are no touchlines. The boards keep the ball in play, so a pass that would leave a pitch returns into the attack at a new angle — four walls are in play at once. A match runs sixty minutes in four quarters, with five to six players a side.

Which clubs appear most often in the reports?

Baltimore Blast in twenty-five reports, Milwaukee Wave in twenty, Philadelphia KiXX in nineteen, then Cleveland Force and Detroit Ignition in thirteen each. Twenty clubs are named in total.

Is anything on this site reconstructed?

No. Every report is the text as published. Headlines were filed in capitals and are title-cased for reading; nothing else is rewritten, and where a season or a season's captures do not survive, the page says so rather than filling the gap.