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USL Championship Power Rankings - Week 30

By USLChampionship.com Staff, 10/04/22, 6:00PM EDT

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San Antonio FC holds onto the No. 1 spot this week after clinching home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. With this week’s 1-0 win in Pittsburgh over the Riverhounds, SAFC has now kept clean sheets in three straight matches. In fact, San Antonio has conceded only one goal since August 28. We’re watching an all-time great team right now, even if the scorelines are rarely lopsided.

Elsewhere, Louisville City FC regained control of the Eastern Conference, and Sacramento Republic FC had a very bad week and tumbled down the Power Rankings.

It was a good week for teams in the middle of both conferences this week, creating a ton of tumult in the rankings.

Atlanta United 2 Birmingham Legion FC Charleston Battery Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC Detroit City FC El Paso Locomotive FC Hartford Athletic Indy Eleven
LA Galaxy II Las Vegas Lights FC Loudoun United FC Louisville City FC Memphis 901 FC The Miami FC Monterey Bay F.C. New Mexico United
New York Red Bulls II Oakland Roots SC Orange County SC Phoenix Rising FC Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC Rio Grande Valley FC Sacramento Republic FC San Antonio FC
San Diego Loyal SC Tampa Bay Rowdies FC Tulsa

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1 San Antonio FC
(23-5-4)
Week 31 : @ BHM

Last Week:
1
If San Antonio wins its remaining two regular season matches, it will set USL Championship records for points in a season and wins in a season. This team is absolutely dominant, even though it very rarely wins by multiple goals.
2 Louisville City FC
(20-6-6)
Week 31: v. DET
1
Last Week:
3
Louisville went down to H-E-B Park shorthanded and came out with a 1-0 win to retake control of its own destiny in the Eastern Conference, setting a club record in the process with its 20th win of the season.
3 Detroit City FC
(14-6-12)
Week 31: @ LOU
1
Last Week:
4
Le Rouge rolled to a 4-0 win on the road against Loudoun United FC in a downpour at Segra Field. Detroit had dropped points against both New York Red Bulls II and FC Tulsa the week before, so a return to winning ways against inferior opponents is a good sign.
4 Tampa Bay Rowdies
(17-7-7)
Week 31: v. LDN
3
Last Week:
7
In some ways, the Rowdies’ 2-1 win over Monterey Bay F.C. flatters Tampa Bay. The team was lucky to trail only 1-0 and give itself a chance to turn the result around in the second half, but you have to give the Rowdies credit for winning in a difficult week due to disruptions caused by Hurricane Ian
5 Memphis 901 FC
(19-8-4)
Week 31: v. RGV, v. NY
3
Last Week:
2
A loss to Miami doesn’t look great on paper, but considering it was without three regular starters due to suspension and Miami didn’t break through until stoppage time, it was still a decent showing for Memphis.
6 The Miami FC
(14-8-10)
Week 31: @ LV
7
Last Week:
13
Is everyone aware that The Miami FC is on an eight-game unbeaten run? The team sits in seventh place in the Eastern Conference but hasn’t lost since August 10. Some of the results in that run are pretty underwhelming, but this team is starting to look like a really tricky out for the Eastern Conference heavy hitters. Miami hasn’t lost by multiple goals since July. It knows how to stay in games.
7 Rio Grande Valley FC
(12-13-6)
Week 31: @ MEM, v. PHX
1
Last Week:
6
RGV FC lost at home this weekend to Louisville, but the match was tight throughout, a good sign for a team still trying to scrape together enough points to reach the postseason. A four-game winning streak is over, but 12 points out of the last 15 is still a great return.
8 Oakland Roots SC
(10-9-13)
Week 31: @ HFD
7
Last Week:
15
Oakland jumped above the playoff line with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Birmingham Legion FC this weekend. Wins over playoff-bound teams are always good and Roots SC now finds itself unbeaten in four matches.
9 San Diego Loyal SC
(18-9-5)
Week 31: v. NM
1
Last Week:
10
San Diego was unlucky to concede a stoppage-time equalizer in a 2-2 draw against Orange County SC, but Landon Donovan’s team is still unbeaten in three matches and closing in on the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference.
10 Las Vegas Lights FC
(11-13-8)
Week 31: v. MIA
14
Last Week: 24
Las Vegas makes a massive jump into the top ten after a four-point week reignited its playoff aspirations. Lights FC snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-0 thrashing of playoff rival Monterey Bay F.C. on Tuesday and then followed that up with another point against New Mexico United on Friday night.
11 Birmingham Legion FC
(16-9-7)
Week 31: v. SA
3
Last Week:
8
Birmingham had a tough task in crossing the country to play Oakland in front of a sell-out crowd in the regular season finale at Laney Football Stadium. Enzo Martinez gave the visitors an early lead, but they couldn’t hang on.
12 Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC
(16-12-4)
Week 31: @ ELP
3
Last Week:
9
Colorado Springs was idle this week, but with a handful of teams below it in the standings picking up wins this weekend, a four-game winless run is really starting to look like an eyesore.
13 Hartford Athletic
(10-16-6)
Week 31: v. OAK
6
Last Week:
19
Hartford has won four of its last five matches, including a 6-3 win over the Charleston Battery on Saturday night. The schedule has been friendly, but you can’t knock a team for beating the opposition in front of it.
14 El Paso Locomotive FC
(12-12-7)
Week 31: v. COS, v. OC
2
Last Week:
16
El Paso was idle this past week as a Wednesday visit to Tampa Bay was postponed. Locomotive FC has won three of its last four, but will 17 days off between games kill that momentum?
15 FC Tulsa
(11-15-6)
Week 31: v. MB
3
Last Week:
18
Tulsa got a hat trick from 18-year-old forward Luca Showinski in his second professional start in a 4-2 win over the Indy Eleven on Saturday night. Maybe this club can end the season with some nice momentum ahead of the arrival of new coach Blair Gavin in 2023.
16 Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC
(15-9-8)
Week 31: @ SAC
4
Last Week:
12
Pittsburgh did well to stand toe-to-toe with San Antonio FC until the closing minutes of a 1-0 loss, but the Hounds haven’t won a game since September 3. That should cause some concern ahead of the playoffs.
17 Indy Eleven
(11-16-5)
Week 31: v. CHS
3
Last Week:
14
A midweek win over Atlanta United 2 was good, but then the Eleven slumped to a lopsided home defeat against FC Tulsa, also eliminated from playoff contention.
18 New Mexico United
(11-9-11)
Week 31: v. LA, @ SD
1
Last Week:
17
New Mexico left Las Vegas with a scoreless draw, but this side is limping toward the postseason with just two points from the last 15 available.
19 Phoenix Rising FC
(11-15-6)
Week 31: @ RGV
4
Last Week:
23
Phoenix had its back against the wall this week and responded with victories over Sacramento and New York. It was a good week for Rising FC even if it likely still won’t be enough to reach the postseason.
20 Sacramento Republic FC
(14-11-7)
Week 31: v. PIT
15
Last Week:
5
The bottom fell out of Sacramento this week. Two losses in four days to Phoenix Rising FC and an LA Galaxy II team that played with 10 men for 53 minutes are not a good luck for a team headed to the postseason. The Republic clinched a playoff spot this week because of other teams dropping points.
21 Monterey Bay F.C.
(12-16-4)
Week 31: @ TUL
10
Last Week:
11
It was a bad week for Monterey Bay as well, with a 4-0 loss in Las Vegas and a bad 2-1 loss to the Rowdies. Monterey Bay hammered the Rowdies to the tune of nine shots on target in the first half but failed to build a big enough edge to withstand Tampa Bay’s rally.
22 LA Galaxy II
(11-14-6)
Week 31: @ NM, v. ATL

Last Week:
22
The Galaxy played down a man for nearly an hour and still beat the Republic 2-0 on Sunday night, though that may say more about Sacramento than Los Angeles.
23 Orange County SC
(7-13-12)
Week 31: @ ELP
3
Last Week:
26
The Iloski brothers both scored as Orange County earned a 2-2 draw against San Diego. The season is mathematically over, but Orange County hasn’t thrown in the towel.
24 Loudoun United FC
(8-21-3)
Week 31: @ TBR
4
Last Week:
20
This week’s 4-0 loss to Detroit really makes you wonder what exactly happened in Loudoun’s 3-0 win over Hartford last week, its only win in September.
25 Atlanta United II
(5-22-5)
Week 31: @ LA
4
Last Week:
21
Atlanta looked competitive in a narrow loss in Indianapolis, but that’s not really saying that much given that Indy is 14 points below the playoff line.
26 Charleston Battery
(6-20-6)
Week 31: @ IND
1
Last Week:
27
Another week, another lopsided loss. Charleston has now lost three-straight matches by a combined scored of 14-3 after a 6-3 loss in Hartford.
27 New York Red Bulls II
(3-23-6)
Week 31: @ MEM
2
Last Week:
25
New York scored a late consolation goal in Arizona, but narrowly avoiding a five-goal defeat to this year’s Phoenix Rising team isn’t much to write home about.

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