What We Do

SoccerReform.us is the nation’s only non-partisan grassroots organization leading the fight for the adoption of an unlimited, accessible open league system for US club soccer featuring promotion, relegation and independent, fully autonomous clubs. Through coordinated outreach and an aggressive multimedia campaign we unite American soccer supporters behind the emancipation of our club soccer from the dogmatic institutional barriers and administrative restrictions unique to the American pro sport franchise model.

What We Stand For

An accessible, open and free market system featuring promotion, relegation and independent, autonomous clubs delivered club soccer to global dominance in the twentieth century. We fight for a new American soccer century that begins the minute it is fully adopted here - in the biggest open and free market in the world. SoccerReform.us is committed to uniting disenchanted and disenfranchised American soccer supporters behind a deregulated American club soccer system that is as free, open and accessible as it is in the rest of the soccer world. We are united against a misapplied corporate franchise model that stunts American leagues, developmentally disables top American clubs and limits opportunities for American players.

Our primary goal is to reach American soccer supporters with two central messages:

• An open league model for US club soccer featuring promotion and relegation will lead to dynamic and unprecedented growth in the American game, will begin to integrate us with our global competitors is fundamental to the sport, fundamentally fair, and fundamentally American.

Independent, fully autonomous clubs setting their own performance goals, player salaries, roster moves and sizes will further integrate US club soccer with our global contemporaries, and level the playing field for our top clubs in international competitions.

• SoccerReform.us is not for bashers, mockers or belittlers of US club soccer. Instead, we represent American soccer supporters who strive to free the future of US club soccer from institutional limits and league overregulation. When we showcase a future in which every club has the ability to move up through at least three top leagues based solely on the quality of their play, we give new hope to supporters of every lower division club. When we highlight the tens of slots for new clubs that will open upon the adoption of an open league model, and point out the elimination of exorbitant franchise fees for admission into any league, we give hope to investors and communities who dream of their own independent, autonomous, and unlimited club. When we emphasize the removal of artificial limits on squad size and player salaries that keep top clubs from realizing their full potential, we bring hope to MLS supporters. Finally, when we illustrate how the implementation of an open league model will fully integrate U.S. club soccer with our global competitors and result in an unprecedented expansion to at least sixty free, independent and autonomous clubs, we give hope to every US club soccer supporter.

Why You Should Join Us

There is hope for change. When MLS abandoned ill-conceived concessions to the American sports psyche like the scoreboard clock and the one-on-one running shootout, they proved they proved capable of reform. MLS officials have never publicly dismissed the possibility of moving to a model that includes promotion and relegation. Perhaps not coincidentally, FIFA continues to apply pressure to adopt a system that features it.

Although reluctant to dismiss it entirely, MLS executives project adoption of promotion and relegation into the cloudy far future of manned mars missions, high-speed rail, and the retirement of the internal combustion engine.  Moreover, any discussion on removing strict limits on salaries and rosters, per the global model, is a completely taboo. With the support of generous individuals, great companies, and supporter groups, SoccerReform.us fights to lend players, owners, broadcasters and investors courage to replace our misapplied and ill-conceived closed franchise model with the free market open league system that delivered the beautiful game to global dominance.

If you already believe eliminating barriers between leagues and removing restrictive league micromanagement will attract many new investors and millions of new supporters, please join us. We will continue to fight to free every club in every league from intrusive restrictions, top-down bureaucracy, institutional barriers and artificial limits imposed by the franchise system until every owner of every club in every league is able to take their club as far as investors and supporters will take them, not as far as the franchise will let them go.

Whether you want to see a new club with an unlimited future in your town, or open the future of the Rhinos, Battery, Miami FC, or even Hollywood FC, please join us. If you want to see DC United defeat Club America, or the LA Galaxy defeat Santos Laguna in a meaningful international competition, please join us today.  If you want to see the return of world-class clubs to the United States, please join us now.

As Seattle has recently reminded us, whenever one new club joins MLS, excitement and passions rise fleetingly. Crowds and season ticket holders spike upward, if only briefly. Imagine three new clubs - every season.

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