The decline of Philadelphia’s first organized league is followed by the appearance of the first professional soccer teams in the city.
Tacony battles Paterson True Blues in the second replay of the 1913 American Cup final. West Philadelphia and Wilmington Irish Americans meet for the Allied American Amateur Cup.
Tacony FC and Philadelphia Hibernian square off in the 1913 American Cup semifinal. Allied Amateur Cup and league play, benefit match, and more Philly soccer history, 100 years ago this week.
One hundred years ago in Philadelphia soccer, Kensington Boys’ Club clinched the American League title.
The Union honored the region’s soccer history with a Bethlehem Steel-inspired third kit. PSP’s resident Lehigh Valley voice, Chris Luczkowiak, explains how the club could further those connections by playing a US Open Cup match at Bethlehem’s Steel Field.
Philadelphia Hibernians thumped Newark’s Scottish Americans 5-1 and the second round of city’s Allied American Amateur Cup tournament were the highlights of a rainy weekend of Philadelphia soccer 100 years ago this week.
Connie Mack is a Philadelphia baseball legend. In 1901, he also had a soccer team.
A look at Christmas soccer in Philadelphia in the 1890s, the beginning of organized league play in the city.
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