Lancaster Rattlers

Football club infobox
clubname = Lancaster Rattlers


fullname = Lancaster Rattlers
nickname = The Rattlers
founded = 2006
ground = Pete Knight HS Stadium
capacity = 3,000
chairman = flagicon|USA Gerald Brunner
manager = flagicon|SLV David Lopez
league = USL Premier Development League
season = 2008
position = 10th, Southwest Division

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Lancaster Rattlers are an American soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and play in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference against teams from Azusa, Bakersfield, Calabasas, Fresno, Irvine, La Mirada, San Francisco, San Jose and Ventura.

They play their home games in the stadium at Pete Knight High School in the city of Palmdale, California, 9 miles south of Lancaster itself, and 62 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

The club also 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.

2008 Roster

Year-by-year

Competition History

The Rattlers entered the league in 2007 as the first ever soccer franchise from the Antelope Valley area of Southern California. They played their first competitive game on April 28, 2007, a 2-1 loss to fellow expansion franchise, Ventura County Fusion, and this unfortunately set the standard for a disappointing first season. Four straight losses - including a 5-1 hammering by Bakersfield Brigade - left the Rattlers languishing at the bottom of the table. Their first victory (2-1 over the San Francisco Seals) was the single bright spot of a summer which saw them lose eight of their next nine games, scoring 15 goals but conceding an astonishing 32. A difficult first season ended with the Rattlers managing a 2-2 draw against Los Angeles Storm, but finishing dead last in the division, six points adrift of their closest rivals, and second-worst in the entire PDL (only Cocoa Expos had a worse record). Martin Galvan was top scorer.

Coaches

* Steve Mackenzie 2007
* Gary Brunner 2007
* Costa Skouras 2008
* Javier Gallegos 2008
* David Lopez 2009-date

tadia

* Stadium at Palmdale High School, Palmdale, California 2007
* Stadium at Pete Knight High School, Palmdale, California 2008-date

Average Attendance

*2008: 155
*2007: 238

External links

* [http://www.lancasterrattlers.com Lancaster Rattlers]