Super-20 League
Super-20 League
The league's main goal is to provide opportunities to elite youth players to keep playing without having to join a senior level team.
On August 3, 2008 the Chicago Fire Super-20 team became the first MLS player development team to win a league championship by becoming the North American Super 20 champions after defeating Toronto 2-1 in the Super-20 Final. The win capped a dominating finals competition in which the Fire went 5-0 and outscored the other conference qualifiers by an aggregate score of 17-2, including a 3-0 win over the DC United player development team in the semifinals. The Fire qualified for the North American Finals after finishing on top of the Midwest Conference with a record of 10-1-0. The Fire finished the season with a 15 game winning streak and a final record of 15-1-0. Their two year record of 23-2-3 is the best in North America in the Super 20 division. The team was led by captains and Super 20 League Co-MVP's Robert Younger (Illinois-Chicago) and Mark Blades (Northwestern). Mike Stephens (UCLA) and Chris Cutshaw (Bradley) were named to the All-League team and Matt Eliason (Northwestern) won the Golden Boot award as the leading scorer in the North American Finals with 6 goals in 5 matches, including the game winner in the 81st minute of the Championship match against Toronto.
2008 Teams
Men
Central Conference
- Midwest Division
- 1790 Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
- Alliance Academy Lowell, Michigan
- Chicago Fire Bridgeview, Illinois
- Cincinnati United Premier Cincinnati, Ohio
- Des Moines Menace Des Moines, Iowa
- Indiana Invaders South Bend, Indiana
- Mequon United Mequon, Wisconsin
- Penns Forest North Huntington, Pennsylvania
- St. Louis Lions Cottleville, Missouri
- TKO Premier Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Toronto Lynx Juniors Toronto, Ontario
- West Michigan Edge, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Windsor Spartans Tecumseh, Ontario
Northeast Conference
- Mid Atlantic Division (Group A)
- Beachside S.C. New Canaan, Connecticut
- Brooklyn Knights Maspeth, New York
- Ironbound S.C. Newark, New Jersey
- Jersey Knights North Brunswick, New Jersey
- Match Fit Academy Lincroft, New Jersey
- New Jersey Rangers Denville, New Jersey
- PDA FC Zarephath, New Jersey
- Quickstrike FC New Windsor, New York
- Red Bull New York East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Westchester Flames New Rochelle, New York
- Mid Atlantic Division (Group B)
- D.C. United Germantown, Maryland
- City Islanders Academy Palmyra, Pennsylvania
- South Jersey Barons Atco, New Jersey
- Parsippany S.C. Parsippany, New Jersey
- Potomac S.C. Germantown, Maryland
- Rage S.C. Reading, Pennsylvania
- Real Maryland Germantown, Maryland
- Super Nova FC Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- TSF Academy Montclair, New Jersey
- New England Division
Southern Conference
- South Atlantic Division
- Carolina Dynamo Greensboro, North Carolina
- East Tennessee SF Johnson City, Tennessee
- FC Fredericksburg Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Hampton Roads Piranhas Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Northern Virginia Royals Manassas, Virginia
- Triangle FC Cary, North Carolina
- Southeast Division
Western Conference
- Pacific Southern California Division
Women
Central Conference
- Midwest Division
Northeast Conference
- Mid Atlantic Division
- Brooklyn Knights Maspeth, New York
- FC Frederick Buckeystown, Maryland
- Jersey Knights North Brunswick, New Jersey
- Match Fit Academy Lincroft, New Jersey
- New Jersey Rangers Denville, New Jersey
- South Jersey Barons Atco, New Jersey
- Parsippany S.C. Parsippany, New Jersey
- Quickstrike FC New Windsor, New York
- Super Nova FC Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- TSF Academy Montclair, New Jersey
- Washington Freedom Germantown, Maryland
- New England Division
Southern Conference
- South Atlantic Division
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Last updated on Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 16:05:51 PDT (GMT -0700)
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