Clubs

Eleven clubs,
as the archive records them.

What 50 recovered reports, 14 league honours and one dispersal draft actually say about the clubs that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

11club profiles
20clubs named in the reports
14league honours
59dispersal-draft picks

The MISL.net archive is a record of what survived, not of what happened. Fifty league reports were recovered from captures made between 2002 and 2010; they name 20 different clubs between them, but the coverage is very uneven. The Baltimore Blast appear in twenty-five of the fifty. Nine clubs appear once.

These profiles cover the eleven clubs the record can properly support — every club named in five or more reports. Each page draws its figures from the recovered files themselves: how many reports name the club and over what span, which of the fourteen league honours it holds, and what it did in the dispersal draft of 5 January 2005, when the San Diego and Monterrey rosters were broken up and fifty-nine players moved in a single afternoon.

Two things are worth knowing before reading them. First, a report is filed under every club it names, so an All-MISL team announcement counts for five or six clubs at once — a report count measures coverage, not bulletins about that club alone. Second, none of these pages is a club history. They cover the years the archive covers, which for most clubs is a window somewhere between 2002 and 2010, and they say so where the club’s wider story falls outside the recovered files.

The clubs, by weight of coverage

Ordered by how many recovered reports name each club.

Elsewhere on MISL.net

The archive index lists all 50 reports by year and can be filtered by era. The records page carries the full honours table and the complete dispersal draft; the players record sets that draft out club by club. The fixture list preserves the 2010-11 season game by game, and the three eras explains how a single league name covered three separate competitions between 1978 and 2014.

Questions

About these club profiles

How were these eleven clubs chosen?

By weight of coverage. Every club with five or more recovered reports naming it has a profile. Below five the record thins to passing mentions inside league-wide bulletins, which is not enough to say anything specific about a club.

Why are some clubs in the archive missing a profile?

The recovered reports tag 20 club names in all, but most appear only once or twice. Those clubs are still listed on the archive index and in the reports themselves; they simply do not carry enough material for a page of their own.

Where do the numbers on each profile come from?

From the recovered files only. Report counts come from the archive index, honours from the league award reports, draft picks from the 5 January 2005 dispersal sheet, and mention counts from a scan of the whole recovered corpus. Nothing is reconstructed or estimated.

Why does a league-wide report appear under several clubs?

Because a report is filed under every club it names. An All-MISL team announcement names five or six clubs at once and appears under each of them, so a profile’s report count is a measure of coverage, not of bulletins about that club alone.

Does a profile cover the club’s whole history?

No. These pages cover what the recovered reports contain, which for most clubs is a window of a few years between 2002 and 2010. Where a club’s wider history is known from elsewhere on this site it is named as such, and where it is not, the page says so.