Cape Cod Crusaders

Cape Cod Crusaders

Full name	Cape Cod Crusaders
Nickname(s)	The Crusaders
Founded	1994
Dissolved	2008
Ground	Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Chairman	Joe Bradley
Manager	Paul Baber
League	USL Premier Development League
2008	1st, New England Division Playoff Conference Semifinals
Home colors Away colors

Cape Cod Crusaders were an American soccer team based in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1994, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2008, when the franchise folded and the team left the league.^[1]

The team played its home games at several different venues in eastern Massachusetts: mainly in stadium on the campus of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, but also at Whitman-Hanson High School in Whitman, Massachusetts, and at Bowditch Stadium in Framingham, Massachusetts. Also played at Barnstable High School in the town of Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Crusaders' historical home was the stadium on the grounds Dennis Yarmouth High School in the town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where they won back to back championships in 2002 and 2003. The team's colors were red and white.

The team had a sister organization, the Boston Renegades, who play in the women's USL W-League. The club still fields a team in the USL's Super-20 League, a league for players 17 to 20 years of age run under the United Soccer Leagues umbrella.

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The Crusaders were one of the most successful minor-league soccer teams in the United States, having been national PDL champions twice, in 2002 and 2003. The team was also one of the most long-lasting teams, having played in four different leagues, at two different levels, over the course of more than a decade. In the mid-2000s the Crusaders became part of the Massachusetts Premier Soccer (MPS) organization, which runs soccer schools and north senior and junior amateur leagues across Massachusetts, with the intent of developing and promoting the game.

In 2007, Crusaders striker Ricardo Pierre-Louis was part of the Haiti squad which took part in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Pierre-Louis was the only PDL player to take part in the tournament, coming on as a substitute in the 1–1 draw with Costa Rica, and playing a full 90 minutes in the 2–0 defeat to Canada.

vs. Brooklyn Knights, 25 July 2008 ^[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Evan Bush 4 DF  SCO Graham Munro 6 DF  USA Matthew Narode 7 MF  ENG Jason Massie 8 MF  ENG Yan Klukowski 9 MF  IRL Liam Maloney 10 MF  ENG Tom Marston 11 MF  USA Christian Vercollone 12 DF  IRL Michael Coburn 14 DF  USA Daniel Schultz 15 FW  USA Matt Horth 16 FW  USA Franklin Daniel 17 FW  ENG Tony Awor 18 MF  HAI Edens Chery 21 MF  USA Jordan Lynn 23 FW  CIV Lee Kouadio

• USL PDL New England Division Champion 2008
• USL PDL Northeast Division Champion 2007
• USL PDL New England Division Champion 2006
• USL PDL Northeast Division Champion 2005
• USL PDL Champion 2003
• USL PDL Eastern Conference Champion 2003
• USL PDL Champion 2002
• USL PDL Eastern Conference Champion 2002

• Methembe Ndlovu (2003)
• Paul Baber (2005–2008)

• Stadium at Dennis Yarmouth High School, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts (1994–2003)
• Stadium at Barnstable High School, Hyannis, Massachusetts (2004–2007)
• Stadium at Nauset Regional High School, North Eastham, Massachusetts 1 game (2005)
• Stadium at Weymouth High School, Weymouth, Massachusetts 1 game (2006)
• Stadium at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, Whitman, Massachusetts 3 games (2007–2008)
• Stadium at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts (2008)
• Stadium at Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts 1 game (2008)
• Bowditch Stadium, Framingham, Massachusetts 1 game (2008)

• 2008: 309
• 2007: 284
• 2006: 330
• 2005: 306

• Cape Cod Crusaders/Massachusetts Premier Soccer