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USL Championship Unveils 2019 Conference Alignment

By USLChampionship.com Staff, 12/13/18, 4:35PM EST

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36-team lineup sees four expansion clubs in East, Saint Louis & Swope Park shift conferences

TAMPA, Fla. – The USL Championship today announced its conference alignment for the league’s 2019 regular season. The league will feature 36 teams across two conferences in the upcoming season, with the clubs set to embark on a 34-game regular-season schedule that will be conducted over 33 weeks and open on the weekend of March 8-10, 2019.

Four of the league’s expansion arrivals will join the Eastern Conference, with Birmingham Legion FC, Hartford Athletic, Loudoun United FC and Memphis 901 FC joining the conference led by defending USL Cup champion Louisville City FC.

The Eastern Conference also features two new arrivals in Saint Louis FC and the Swope Park Rangers, who make the move after both reaching the USL Cup Playoffs in the Western Conference a season ago.

The remaining three expansion clubs – Austin Bold FC, El Paso Locomotive FC and New Mexico United – join the Western Conference for their inaugural seasons. The addition of Austin and El Paso to the conference gives the USL Championship four clubs in Texas for the first time, while New Mexico and El Paso are set to engage in a strong regional rivalry with the clubs separated by just over 250 miles.

2019 USL Championship Conference Alignment

EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATL UTD 2
Bethlehem Steel FC
Birmingham Legion FC
Charleston Battery
Charlotte Independence
Hartford Athletic
Indy Eleven
Loudoun United FC
Louisville City FC
Memphis 901 FC
Nashville SC
New York Red Bulls II
North Carolina FC
Ottawa Fury FC
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC
Saint Louis FC
Swope Park Rangers
Tampa Bay Rowdies

WESTERN CONFERENCE
Austin Bold FC
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC
El Paso Locomotive FC
Fresno FC
LA Galaxy II
Las Vegas Lights FC
New Mexico United
OKC Energy FC
Orange County SC
Phoenix Rising FC
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Reno 1868 FC
Rio Grande Valley FC
Sacramento Republic FC
San Antonio FC
Seattle Sounders FC 2
Tulsa Roughnecks FC

Home openers for the 2019 USL Championship season and the full 2019 regular season schedule will be announced at a future date.

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