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.
