Category: American Indoor Soccer Association

Charlie Greene

Hershey Impact

September 15, 2018

The Hershey Impact were a pro indoor soccer club that played three winter campaigns in central Pennsylvania between 1988 and 1991. The Impact had a small but steady core of fans and averaged between 3,400 and 3,700 fans for each of its three seasons of play at Hersheypark Arena. After the Impact’s bankruptcy in 1991, many Impact players moved on to play for the Harrisburg Heat, a nearby expansion franchise that effectively replaced the former club shortly after it’s closure.

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1989-90 Atlanta Attack Program

Atlanta Attack

November 6, 2016

Short-lived effort to re-establish the sport of indoor soccer at Atlanta’s Omni coliseum. The Atlanta Attack (1989-1991) followed the earlier tenure of the Atlanta Chiefs of the North American Soccer League, who played two indoor campaigns at the Omni between 1979 and 1981.

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1990 Chicago Power program from the National Professional Soccer League

Chicago Power

July 1, 2015

The Chicago Power were an indoor soccer club formed in 1988. The Power were a lower-budget successor to the Chicago Sting, the city’s popular and long-running pro side that went out of business in July of that same year.  Several weeks after the Sting closed their doors, a former Sting investor named Lou Weisbach purchased an expansion franchise in the American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA). Karl-Heinz Granitza, Pato Margetic, Batata, Bret Hall, and other former Sting stars suited up for the Power over the years, who played mostly at the suburban Rosemont Horizon. The franchise moved to Edmonton in 1996 after years of behind-the-scenes turmoil.

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1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies Media Guide from the North American Soccer League

Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975-1993)

July 29, 2014

North American Soccer League (1975-1984) American Indoor Soccer Association (1986-1987) American Soccer League (1988-1989) American Professional Soccer League (1990-1993) Born: 1974 – NASL expansion franchise

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1988 Fort Wayne Flames program from the American Indoor Soccer Association

Fort Wayne Flames

May 25, 2014

The Fort Wayne Flames were a pro indoor soccer outfit that played three seasons in the American Indoor Soccer Association during the late 1980’s.  The AISA started out as a Midwestern regional bus league in 1984, playing a distinct second fiddle to the big budget Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL).  The Flames entered the league as the organization was getting slightly more ambitious, expanding south into larger cities like Jacksonville, Memphis and Tampa Bay.

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