Category: Continental Indoor Soccer League

San Jose Grizzlies

March 13, 2021

The San Jose Grizzlies were a short-lived indoor soccer entry that competed in the summer-season Continental Indoor Soccer League in 1994 and 1995.
Two decades earlier, Grizzlies owner Milan Mandaric founded the Bay Area’s popular San Jose  Earthquakes soccer team in the North American Soccer League. Serbian-American indoor star Preki arrived for the Grizzlies’ second and final season and won the CISL’s MVP award in 1995. It was the future Soccer Hall of Famer’s final season of indoor soccer before embarking on his equally legendary outdoor career with the U.S. Men’s National Team and in Major League Soccer in 1996.

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Indiana Twisters Continental Indoor Soccer League

Indianapolis Twisters / Indiana Twisters

December 26, 2019

The Indianapolis (later “Indiana”) Twisters were a professional indoor soccer team that played at Market Square Arena for two summers in 1996 and 1997. The Twisters were part of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, a circuit that initially attracted well-heeled NBA and NHL owners and swelled to a peak of 15 teams in 1995. But by the time that brothers David & Rodney Goins bought into the league for a $350,000 expansion fee in early 1996, the CISL was in contraction mode. The league had shrunk from 15 to 10 members that winter. The Twisters would end up being the last expansion franchise to ever join the CISL, which folded at the end of the 1997 season.

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Detroit Safari Soccer

Detroit Safari

December 16, 2017

There have been countless pro sports teams named for race cars and race car drivers over the years. But the short-lived Detroit Safari, who played indoor soccer at the Palace of Auburn Hills during the summer of 1997, stand alone as the only team named for a minivan…

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Sacramento Knights

Sacramento Knights

September 7, 2014

Continental Indoor Soccer League (1993-1997) Premier Soccer Alliance (1998) World Indoor Soccer League (1999-2001) Born: July 7, 1992 – CISL founding franchise Folded: January 31,

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1997 Arizona Sandsharks Program from the Continental Indoor Soccer League

Arizona Sandsharks

September 6, 2014

The Arizona Sandsharks were an indoor soccer team that played four non-consecutive summertime seasons in the Continental Indoor Soccer League between 1993 and 1997. The Sandsharks never put together a strong side in the CISL. In four years of operation, the team never made the playoffs and finished in last place three times.

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