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Full name | Louisville City Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | LouCity, The Boys in Purple, Los Morados | |||
Founded | June 4, 2014 | |||
Stadium | Lynn Family Stadium Louisville, Kentucky | |||
Capacity | 15,304 | |||
Owner | Soccer Holdings, LLC | |||
Chairman | John Neace | |||
Head Coach | Danny Cruz | |||
League | USL Championship | |||
2023 | 5th, Eastern Conference Playoffs: Conference Final | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Louisville City Football Club is an American professional soccer club based in Louisville, Kentucky. The team plays in the USL Championship, known through the 2018 season as the United Soccer League (USL), which is currently the second tier of the American soccer pyramid.
The club was founded in 2014 after Orlando City's USL team franchise rights were relocated to Louisville and played their first USL season in 2015.[1] After reaching the Eastern Conference finals of the USL playoffs in both its first two seasons, the club went on to win the 2017 USL Cup in only its third season of existence. In 2018, they repeated as champions, becoming the first team to win back-to-back USL Cup championships. In 2019, they became the first team in USL history to play in three consecutive USL Cup Finals, but they fell just shy of their third championship.