San Francisco Glens

Football club infobox | clubname = San Francisco Glens


fullname = San Francisco Glens
nickname = The Glens
founded = 1961
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league = National Premier Soccer League
season = 2008
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San Francisco Glens is an American soccer team founded in 1961. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and will make their debut in the Northwest Division in 2008, playing a short season of "exhibition games" prior to a planned full inclusion into the league some time in the future.

The team will play their home games at a stadium somewhere in the city of San Francisco, California. The exact venue has yet to be announced.

The Glens have played in the California Premier Soccer Association of the San Francisco Soccer Football League for many years, and are affiliated with the San Francisco Seals of the USL Premier Development League.

History

The Glens were founded in 1961 by Dr. Michael McFadden, the club was one of a number of Irish sides that had emerged in the SFSFL during the sixties. The emergence of the Irish-American Glens during this period was based on the coaching of Irishman Neil Hagen coupled with a talented crop of young players. They began to prosper after Neil Hagen took over the coaching of the team. With an emphasis on youth, Hagen developed a side that featured the talents of Tom and Steve Ryan, Jim Boyle, and Tom and Tim Harvey among others. The result was promotion to the top division by the end of the decade. The Glens went on to national prominence by going to the National Amateur Cup final in 1979 where they lost 1-0 to Atlanta Datagraphic. The Irish side returned to the Amateur Cup final in 1990, but was on the wrong side of another 1-0 result. In the eighties, the Glens overcame a major setback to capture their first SFSFL championship in 1984. The untimely death of Hagen in 1981 left a void that might have been the end of other clubs. Sean Shannon stepped into the spotlight and quietly remolded the team into a championship-winning outfit by bringing in players such as Paul Mitchell and Mal Roche. Their 1984 title was the first ever by an Irish side, and they returned again for a second in 1990.

Honors

California State Cup 1983-84
California State Intermediate Cup 1968-69
U.S. Open Cup California North 1977-78, 1979-80, 1980-81
National Amateur Cup
*California North 1978-79, 1979-80, 1982-83
*National Finalists 1979, 1990
SFSFL
*4th Division 1976-77
*3rd Division 1977-78
*1st Division 1978-79, 1992-93
*Major Division 1983-84, 1989-90, 2001
Carlsberg Cup
*S.F. Champions 2001
*National Finalists 2001

External links

* [http://www.sfsfl.com/cpsa/team.php?teamid=13 SFSFL San Francisco Glens page]