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Full name
  
Legacy

Ground Capacity
  
3,000

Founded
  
2002

Nickname(s)
  
The Legacy

Ground
  
Williamsburg

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Stadium
  
James City County Stadium Wanner Stadium Williamsburg, Virginia

Owner
  
Virginia Legacy Soccer Club

2009
  
8th, Mid Atlantic (USL PDL) Playoffs: DNQ

League
  
National Premier Soccer League

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Legacy is an American soccer team based in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. The team plays in the Mid-Atlantic Conference of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.

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The team was founded in 2002 as Williamsburg Legacy. It played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), considered roughly equal to the NPSL, until 2009, after which the franchise folded and the team left the league. In June 2013, it was announced that the club would re-join the fourth tier for the 2014 season in the NPSL.

The team plays its home games in James City County Stadium-Wanner Stadium. The team's colors are white, red and black.

History

The Williamsburg Soccer Club was founded as an amateur sports association serving the local community in 1976. In 2001, the club joined the United Soccer Leagues (USL), creating a team franchised in the Premier Development League (PDL). The team was known as Williamsburg Legacy until January 2007, when Williamsburg Soccer Club merged with the nearby Colonial Football Club to form the Virginia Legacy Soccer Club. The PDL team then changed its name to Virginia Legacy to reflect the merger.

The Legacy had a successful series of early years in the PDL, earning first or second-place finishes in their division. Following the 2009 season in which the club finished eighth, the team folded but continued to remain active as a youth and community soccer organization.

On June 4, 2013, it was announced that the Legacy would re-join the fourth tier of American soccer, this time in the alternative National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), to begin play in the Mid-Atlantic Conference in 2014. In 2014, the team announced it was rebranding to Legacy 76 to reflect the year of its founding.

Honors

  • USL PDL Mid Atlantic Division Champions 2002
  • Head coaches

  • Jeff Dominguez (2005–2006)
  • Kevin Darcy (2007)
  • Tim Cristian (2008–2009)
  • Kevin Darcy (2015)
  • Stadia

  • Busch Field; Williamsburg, Virginia (2003–2005)
  • Captains Field Christopher Newport University; Newport News, Virginia 2 games (2005)
  • Albert-Daly Field; Williamsburg, Virginia (2006–2007)
  • James City County Stadium; (Wanner Stadium) Williamsburg, Virginia (2008–present)
  • Captains Field (Christopher Newport University), Newport News, Virginia (2014–2015)
  • Average attendance

    Attendance stats are calculated by averaging each team's self-reported home attendances from the historical match archive at http://www.uslsoccer.com/history/index_E.html.

  • 2001: 511
  • 2002: 419
  • 2003: 609
  • 2004: 462
  • 2005: 233
  • 2006: 248
  • 2007: 238
  • 2008: 197
  • 2009: 115
  • 2015: 823
  • References

    Legacy 76 Wikipedia