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Calgary Mustangs
Full nameCalgary Mustangs Soccer Club
Nickname(s)Storm, Mustangs
Founded1983 (one season)
2001 (as Calgary Storm)
Dissolved2004
GroundMewata Stadium (CPSL)
Foothills Stadium (USL PDL), (USL A-League)
McMahon Stadium (USL A-League)
LeagueCPSL (1983)
USL PDL (2001)
USL A-League (2002–2004)

The Calgary Mustangs was the name of two Calgary, Alberta, based professional soccer teams.

CPSL Calgary Mustangs

A team named Calgary Mustangs competed in the original Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL) for the league's one and only season in 1983. The Mustangs finished fifth in the six team league.

USL Calgary Mustangs

Calgary was home of the 2001 Calgary Storm, which played one season in the USL Premier Development League (USL PDL), finishing as playoff Champions.

In 2002, the Storm moved to the USL A-League (USL AL). The team continued in the USL A-League, changing its name to the Calgary Mustangs for the 2004 season. Following the end of the 2004 season, the owners elected not to play in 2005 and the team folded.

The team never acquired a significant profile in the Calgary sports marketplace and never had great fan support. The USL PDL Calgary Storm averaged 2,003 fans per game at Foothills Stadium in a city of nearly 900,000 people.[1][2] In their final season the team's average attendance was just 1,258 at 35,650 capacity McMahon Stadium, which at the time was roughly equal to a team playing in the sixth tier of English professional soccer.

Players

Final squad

vs. Milwaukee Wave United, 26 August 2004 [3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Lutz Pfannenstiel
2 DF Canada CAN Angelo Sestito
5 DF Croatia CRO Zvonko Pavicic
6 DF Canada CAN Aaron Richer
7 MF Netherlands NED Geert Brusselers
8 MF Canada CAN Jaime Auvigne
10 MF Bulgaria BUL Mesut Mert
11 FW Canada CAN Nicolas Zuniga
12 DF Canada CAN Charles Peszneker
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF Canada CAN Conrad Chala
16 MF Canada CAN Jordan Gillespie
17 FW Canada CAN Steven Frazao
18 FW Trinidad and Tobago TRI Conrad Smith
20 MF Canada CAN Steffen Holdt
21 MF Russia RUS Sergei Raad
22 FW Canada CAN Nic Reyes
23 GK Canada CAN Jordan Robinson
26 FW Canada CAN Ernesto Zapata-Vidal

Year-by-year

Year Division League Reg. Season Playoffs Open Cup
1983 2 CPSL 5th N / A N / A
2001 4 USL PDL Season Champion Runner-up Did not qualify
2002 2 USL A-League 5th, Pacific First Round Third Round
2003 2 USL A-League 4th, Pacific Did not qualify Did not qualify
2004 2 USL A-League 7th, Western Did not qualify Did not qualify

Source:[4]

Honours

  • USL PDL Regular Season Champions 2001

References

  1. ^ http://www.uslsoccer.com/history/index_E.html
  2. ^ http://www.kenn.com/the_blog/?page_id=3822
  3. ^ http://www.uslsoccer.com/stats/2004/1076918.html
  4. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/usadave/cpsl.html

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