{"id":824165,"date":"2026-07-26T03:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:31:12","slug":"vermont-green-are-2026-usl2-eastern-conference-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824165\/","title":{"rendered":"VERMONT GREEN ARE 2026 USL2 EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Conference Champions!<\/p>\n<p>Vermont Green FC defeated Asheville City SC 4-0 in Laredo, TX on Friday evening, claiming the Eastern Conference crown for the second straight season!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud that the boys powered through the difficult travel and the harsh conditions and stayed focused on our task, which was to win the Eastern Conference and keep moving. Their mentality was immense. We can now call ourselves back-to-back Eastern Conference Champions but really we have to keep looking forward to getting ourselves in a position to go for the ultimate prize, another league title,\u201d said Head Coach Chris Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The Green will now face the hosts Laredo Heat on Sunday, July 26th in the National Semifinal at PEG Energy Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS<\/p>\n<p>1995 Cocoa Expos<br \/>1996 Jackson Chargers<br \/>1997 Cocoa Expos<br \/>1999 New York Freedom<br \/>2000 Westchester Flames<br \/>2001 Westchester Flames<br \/>2002 Cape Cod Crusaders<br \/>2003 Cape Cod Crusaders<br \/>2004 Carolina Dynamo<br \/>2005 Richmond Kickers Future<br \/>2006 Westchester Flames<br \/>2007 Brooklyn Knights<br \/>2008 Reading Rage<br \/>2009 Cary Clarets<br \/>2010 Reading United AC<br \/>2011 Long Island Rough Riders<br \/>2012 Carolina Dynamo<br \/>2013 Ocean City Nor\u2019easters<br \/>2014 Jersey Express<br \/>2015 New York Red Bulls U-23<br \/>2016 Ocean City Nor\u2019easters<br \/>2017 Charlotte Eagles<br \/>2018 Reading United AC<br \/>2019 Reading United AC<br \/>2021 Western Mass Pioneers<br \/>2022 Long Island Rough Riders<br \/>2023 Lionsbridge FC<br \/>2024 Seacoast United Phantoms<br \/>2025 Vermont Green FC<br \/>2026 Vermont Green FC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eastern Conference Champions! Vermont Green FC defeated Asheville City SC 4-0 in Laredo, TX on Friday evening, claiming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,7321,596,85,325904,398060],"class_list":["post-824165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eastern-conference","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-usl2","tag-usl2-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}