{"id":287557,"date":"2025-11-12T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:23:09","slug":"ne-ohio-lands-soccer-team-to-start-play-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287557\/","title":{"rendered":"NE Ohio lands soccer team to start play in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/entertainment\/\" title=\"Navigate to Entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a>Updated: Nov. 12, 2025, 10:01 a.m.|Published: Nov. 12, 2025, 10:00 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"A soccer team is scheduled to start play in 2026 in Lorain County.\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EAOBWHYCDVEEDDLB5FO5LBAHG4.jpg\"  \/>A soccer team is planned to start play in 2026 in Lorain County.Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Y3QN6IIXEBAUNPNK7QSONRN56M\">AVON, Ohio \u2013 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uslleaguetwo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USL 2<\/a> soccer franchise is set to begin play next year at ForeFront Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FNZWPNGYCJAUFMLN5CJKGCXYBM\">The team, which will compete in the Lake Erie Crushers\u2019 newly named stadium, will be part of a massive league that already includes a team in Akron. Plans are for a men\u2019s team to start play in 2026 and a women\u2019s team to be added in 2027, said Andrew McDonnell of the Lorain County FC.<\/p>\n<p>As a features writer on cleveland.com&#8217;s life and culture team, I primarily cover food, restaurants, beer, wine, sports entertainment and sports history. I have written four books, all on sports including &#8220;Not&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EntertainmentUpdated: Nov. 12, 2025, 10:01 a.m.|Published: Nov. 12, 2025, 10:00 a.m.A soccer team is planned to start play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-287557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}