Starting this fall, MNUFC will be joining U.S. Soccer’s Development Academy, the elite youth league that includes MLS academy teams and other top clubs across North America, initially with Under ...

Major League Soccer announced the launch of a new elite youth competition platform intended to provide year-round high-level matches for MLS club academy teams and non-MLS academy teams that ...

San Diego FC is by far the largest-and most expensive-piece of the academy-and-club strategy. Mansour's group paid an MLS-rec o rd $500 million expansion fee to launch the club, and is spending ...

Of the new clubs joining the top level of MLS NEXT, ALBION SC Colorado, Michigan Futbol Academy, Northern Virginia Alliance, The Football Academy, and Tulsa Greenwood SC will provide a full player ...

The nature of an MLS academy typically results in one player out of 50, if that, might eventually sign a professional contract with that team, so Applewhite has already beaten the odds.