Nicholas Murray

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Editorial Director at United Soccer League

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USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 13

3 weeks ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray

Aside from the scorching hot Charleston Battery at the top of the race for the USL Championship Players’ Shield, the current form side in the Eastern Conference is its Southern Derby rival North Carolina FC. The squad completed a perfect month of May in USL-sanctioned competitions with Saturday’s 1-0 victory against the Richmond Kickers in the USL Jägermeister Cup, giving it four consecutive wins overall across the in-season tournament and the Championship.
USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 12

1 month ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray

With one-third of the regular season gone for most clubs, there are clearly some whose attacks are proving hit or miss. There are four, in fact, who’ve scored in only half of their regular season contests so far this season. Arguably the most confounding of them? It feels like Orange County SC, which when it has been good has been good enough to look like a potential contender. When it hasn’t, its defense – which has yet to post a shutout this campaign – hasn’t been able to step up.
USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 11

1 month ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray

As Nick Markanich went on his record-setting goalscoring spree a season ago, it was part of a Charleston Battery attack that pushed on dramatically from Head Coach Ben Pirmann’s first season at the helm in 2023. The Battery averaged two goals per game in the regular season, averaged 15.2 shots per game and 1.73xG per game and had a 17.7 percent shot conversion rate.
USL Championship Team of the Week - Week 10

1 month ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray - |Nicholas Murray

TAMPA, Fla. – The USL Championship today announced the Team of the Week for Week 10 of the 2025 regular season, with Charleston Battery forward MD Myers named Player of the Week presented by Konami eFootball with a match-winning, nine-minute brace against the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Through 74 minutes of play on Saturday, Myers scored goals in the 19th and 28th minutes to extend Charleston's league winning streak to five matches.
USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 10

1 month ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray

Over the past four games, can you name the hottest team in the USL Championship’s Western Conference? If you said Oakland Roots SC – a team that is currently below the playoff line – then you win the prize of having stared at the standings for too long this morning. After earning only one point from their first five games, Roots have taken nine points from their past four outings, including Saturday’s 2-1 win on the road at San Antonio FC, their first against SAFC in club history.
USL League One Team of the Week - Week 9

1 month ago | uslleagueone.com | Nicholas Murray - |Nicholas Murray |Ethan Triebsch - |Ethan Triebsch

TAMPA, Fla. – USL League One today announced the Team of the Week for Week 9 of the 2025 regular season, with Spokane Velocity FC midfielder Pierre Reedy named Player of the Week presented by Konami eFootball with a goal and two assists. Reedy led Spokane to a 3-1 comeback victory against Westchester SC on Sunday, bagging the equalizing goal in the 44th minute before dishing out a pair of assists to Anuar Peláez and Ish Jome in the 49th and 63rd minutes, respectively.
USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 9

1 month ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray

Look at all of Sacramento Republic FC’s numbers this season, and it feels like there’s a good team trying to make its way into the light. That’s certainly the way it seems to feel within the club’s camp. After Sunday’s 1-0 win on the road against NorCal rival Oakland Roots SC, midfielder Luis Felipe Fernandes said as much. “We know that we've been playing well, the stats show that we've been dominating games, but we needed that win, and we just got it,” said Fernandes.
United Soccer League, Fort Lauderdale United FC to Launch Professional Men’s Soccer Team

2 months ago | uslsoccer.com | Nicholas Murray - |Nicholas Murray |Ethan Triebsch - |Ethan Triebsch

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – At a community town hall last night, the United Soccer League (USL) and Fort Lauderdale United FC (FTL UTD) announced that a USL League One professional men’s team will kick off next year. With this addition, Fort Lauderdale United FC has complete youth-to-professional pathways for both men and women.
USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 8

2 months ago | uslchampionship.com | Nicholas Murray

There’s something to be said for extending a virtuous cycle. The best example of this in the USL Championship is Louisville City, where winning has become part of the culture, and in turn has begat more winning year on year than any club since it arrived in the league in 2015. It also feels like what’s starting to happen at Loudoun United FC, which pulled out a 1-0 victory against Lexington SC on Saturday evening in Kentucky on Joshua Erlandson’s first professional goal.
USL League One Team of the Week - Week 6

2 months ago | uslleagueone.com | Nicholas Murray - |Nicholas Murray |Ethan Triebsch - |Ethan Triebsch

TAMPA, Fla. – USL League One today announced the Team of the Week for Week 6 of the 2025 regular season, with AV ALTA FC midfielder Jimmie Villalobos named Player of the Week presented by Konami eFootball with his first professional brace. Now with four goals in his last three matches, the Bakersfield, Calif. native helped AV ALTA FC remain perfect at Lancaster Municipal Stadium with a 25-minute brace against his former club, handing Chattanooga Red Wolves SC its first loss of the season.