Category: World Indoor Soccer League

Utah Freezz World Indoor Soccer League

Utah Freezz

October 15, 2021

The sport of indoor soccer spread across the country during the 1980’s and into the early 1990’s. Thanks to organizations like the Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League and the Continental Indoor Soccer League, practically every Major League city in the country had seen one or more indoor soccer teams come through town by 1999. Salt Lake City, Utah was an exception until the upstart World Indoor Soccer League (WISL) rolled into town at the E Center in West Valley in 1999.

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1999 Arizona Thunder program from the World Indoor Soccer League

Arizona Thunder

July 10, 2020

The Arizona Thunder were a professional indoor soccer club that played for three seasons between 1998 and 2000 at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. Many members of the Thunder roster and coaching staff had ties to Phoenix’s earlier pro indoor teams including the Phoenix Pride and the Arizona Sandsharks. The club quietly went out of business following the 2000 season.

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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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Dallas Sidekicks Major Indoor Soccer League

Dallas Sidekicks (1984-2004)

November 5, 2013

The Sidekicks won championships in the Major Indoor Soccer League (1987), Continental Indoor Soccer League (1993), Premier Soccer Alliance (1998) and World Indoor Soccer League (2001). At the peak of their popularity in the late 1980’s, the Sidekicks attracted nearly 10,000 fans per match to Reunion Arena for a 28-game home calendar. The team’s success and community goodwill was inextricably tied to the talents of resident superstar Tatu, the Brazilian scoring wizard who led the Sidekicks on the field for 19 of their 20 seasons. By the time that the Sidekicks finally closed their doors in 2004, they were the longest continuously operating professional soccer franchise in the United States.

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1996 Houston Hotshots Media Guide from the Continental Indoor Soccer League

Houston Hotshots

February 12, 2013

The Houston Hotshots were an expansion franchise in the Continental Indoor Soccer League for the league’s sophomore season in the summer of 1994. The Hotshots appeared in the CISL Championship Series in back-to-back seasons, losing to Monterrey La Raza in 1996 and to the Seattle Seadogs in 1997. The team disbanded after six seasons in February 2001.

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