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American Indoor Soccer League
American Indoor Soccer League
Sport	Indoor Soccer
Founded	2003
Country(ies)	United States
Ceased	2008
Last champion(s)	Rockford Rampage
Official website	http://www.aisl.org

The American Indoor Soccer League was a semi-professional indoor soccer league founded in 2003 and for now folded in 2008.

1 History
- 1.1 Teams
2 Previous champions
3 Notable names
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

History

Founded in 2003, the AISL's headquarters are based in West Springfield, Massachusetts, but the media relations office is based out of Cleveland, Ohio. The league currently has five teams actively playing. The 2005-06 season started with promise, starting with 6 teams, but the New Mexico Storm and Detroit-Windsor Border Stars decided not to play in the AISL just before the season got under way. In 2006, the league announced the membership of the Canton Crusaders,^[1] but the team's membership was revoked after the ownership was unable to fulfill its financial obligations.

In 2008 with the Cincinnati Excite going on hiatus, and the Massachusetts Twisters and Rockford Rampage moving to the National Indoor Soccer League, the 2008-09 campaign was canceled. On December 23, 2008 all news stories were dropped from the website.

Teams

Team	City/Area	Arena	Years in the League
Cincinnati Excite	Cincinnati, Ohio	Game Time Indoor Soccer Training Facility	2004-2008
Canton Crusaders	Canton, Ohio	Canton Civic Center	N/A
Connecticut Academica FC	Cheshire, Connecticut		2003
Detroit-Windsor Border Stars	Windsor, Ontario		2004-2005
Massachusetts Aztecs	Boston, Massachusetts		2003
Massachusetts Twisters	West Springfield, Massachusetts	The Big E	2003-2008
Montréal Team Canada	Montréal, Canada		2003
Memphis Mojo	Memphis, TN	Agricenter Showplace Arena	N/A
New Hampshire Storm	New Hampshire		2003
New Mexico Storm	Albuquerque, New Mexico		2004-2006
New York Hampton Surf	Long Island, New York	Southampton Youth Sports Center	2006-2007
Northern Illinois Rebels	Waukegan, Illinois	Lake County Sports Center	2007-2008
Rockford Rampage	Loves Park, Illinois	Victory Sports Arena	2005-2008
Tulsa Revolution	Tulsa, Oklahoma	Soccer City Indoor Sports Complex	2007-2008

Previous champions

Season	Champion	Score	Runner-Up	Host
2007/2008	Rockford Rampage	18-5	Massachusetts Twisters	Rockford
2006/2007	Massachusetts Twisters	11-5	Rockford Rampage(as Thunder)	Massachusetts
2005/2006	Cincinnati Excite	N/A	AISL(Season)	N/A
2004/2005	Detroit-Windsor Border Stars	4-1	Cincinnati Excite	Windsor
2002-2003	Massachusetts Aztecs	9-6	Connecticut Academica FC	Massachusetts

Notable names

Connally Edozien formerly of the Nigeria national football team's youth system and New England Revolution. Edozien has played in the USL with the Rochester Raging Rhinos and is on contract with the Carolina RailHawks FC.
Oscar Albuquerque current owner of the Rockford Thunder franchise played for Canada's 1980 Olympic qualifying team and in the National Professional Soccer League.
Dayton O'Brien formerly with the University of Memphis, O'Brien was drafted by the Columbus Crew in 2006. O'Brien signed with the Memphis Mojo for the 2006/2007 season.
Everson Maciel of the Western Mass Pioneers signed with the Massachusetts Twisters for the 2006/2007 season after good season in the USL Second Division earned Maciel a spot on the USL 2 All League Team.
Michael Todd ^{[disambiguation needed]} of the New York Surf was selected by the Kansas City Wizards in the first round of the 2007 MLS Supplemental Draft.
Gary Flood of the New York Surf was also selected in the 2007 Supplemental but in the second round by the New England Revolution.

References

^ http://www.usindoor.com/news_aislwelcomescanton.html

External links

League website

v • d • e Soccer in the United States

Overview	United States Soccer Federation · League system · History · Clubs · Champions · Venues (Stadia by capacity, SSS)

National teams	Men's team · Women's team · Men's U-23 team · Women's U-23 team · Men's U-20 team · Women's U-20 team · Men's U-17 team · MNT Stats

Leagues	MLS · USL First Division · NASL · USL Second Division · PDL · USL Super-20 · MISL · PASL-Pro · PASL-Premier · NPSL · PCSL · WPS · W-League · WPSL

Cup Competitions	Open Cup · MLS Cup · Southwest Cup · George F. Donnelly Cup

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