The most successful
indoor soccer clubs.
Three clubs carried the indoor game across four decades: Baltimore, Milwaukee and San Diego.
Baltimore Blast
Founded in 1980 and a significant MISL club through the first era. When the league folded in 1992 the club folded with it, and was reborn the same year as the Baltimore Spirit.
Based in Maryland, the Blast have taken seven championships, the first in the 1983-84 MISL Eastern season and the first after the rebirth in 2002-03. The most recent is 2012-13, played to an average attendance of 5,876. Home games are at Royal Farms Arena, in red and gold; the away colours are white and red. Danny Kelly coaches; Tony Donatelli is the leading scorer on 36 points.
Milwaukee Wave
The longest-running club in indoor soccer, founded in 1984 and playing at UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena in black, white and blue.
The Wave appeared in every MISL season and were a leading member of the American Indoor Soccer Association, yet took no title until the 1997-98 National Professional Soccer League season. They hold six, the last in MISL 2011-12.
San Diego Sockers
The most decorated name in the indoor game. The club began as the Baltimore Comets in 1974, moved west in 1976 as the San Diego Jaws, and took the Sockers name in 1978.
After a slow start came two runs of five straight championships, broken only by a semi-final defeat in 1986-87 — ten titles by 1992 under Ron Newman. The club dissolved in 1996, returned in 2001 without adding to the tally, folded again in 2004, and came back in 2009. Four further titles have followed, from a record of 11 wins against 2 defeats. Kraig Chiles leads the scoring on 62 points.
The league honours and the 2005 dispersal draft record the seasons these clubs played.