The National Soccer League of New York (also known as the National League of New York) was an amateur U.S. soccer league which served as a lower division for the de facto first division American Soccer League from the 1920s into the 1950s. The league began to decline in the second half of the twentieth century and was displaced by the German American Soccer League (GASL) as the dominant New York amateur league. In 1974, the NSL merged with the GASL.
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History
Much of the early history of the league remains obscure. However, in 1928 an NSL select team played Scottish club Rangers F.C. in Brooklyn. Rangers won that game 8-2.[1] In 1941, another NSL select team toured Haiti during which it played a team featuring future National Soccer Hall of Fame forward Joe Gaetjens. This led to him moving to the U.S. and subsequently scoring the winning goal in the U.S. victory over England in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.[2] In 1974, the NSL merged with the German American Soccer League.[3]