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Full name
  
Westchester Flames

Ground Capacity
  
1,845

Head Coach
  
Gus Skoufis

Founded
  
1999

Nickname(s)
  
The Flames, The Burn

Owner
  
Gus Marangoudakis

Arena/Stadium
  
City Park Stadium

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2016
  
7th, Northeast Division Playoffs: DNQ

League
  
Premier Development League

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Westchester Flames is an American soccer team based in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Founded in 1999, the team plays in the Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Mid Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.

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The team plays its home games at City Park Stadium, where they have played since 2001. The team's colors are blue and white.

The team 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.

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History

The team had your first season in 1999, when they finished with a respectable 7-9 record, under former New York Cosmos superstar Vladislav Bogicevic. Home games were played at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. In 2001 , Westchester Flames were the champion of Premier Development League

Current roster

As at June 8, 2015.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Notable former players

This list of notable former players comprises players who went on to play professional soccer after playing for the team in the Premier Development League, or those who previously played professionally before joining the team.

  • Andre Akpan
  • Jhonny Arteaga
  • Dwight Barnett
  • Scott Bolkan
  • Kevin Burns
  • Charlie Davies
  • Rodrigo Faria
  • Julius James
  • Chris Megaloudis
  • Ricky Schramm
  • Ibrahim Yusuf

    • Honors

  • USL PDL Eastern Conference Champions 2006
  • USL PDL Northeast Division Champions 2006
  • USL PDL Champions 2001
  • USL PDL Eastern Conference Champions 2001
  • USL PDL Northeast Division Champions 2001
  • USL PDL Regular Season Champions 2000
  • USL PDL Eastern Conference Champions 2000
  • USL PDL Northeast Division Champions 2000

    • Head coaches

  • Vladislav Bogićević (1999)
  • Anthony Roros
  • Ernest Inneh (2005–2006)
  • Gus Skoufis (2007–present)

    • Stadia

  • Manhattanville College; Purchase, New York (1999)
  • Fordham University; Bronx, New York (2000)
  • City Park Stadium; New Rochelle, New York (2001–2008, 2010–present)
  • McKenna Field at New Rochelle High School; New Rochelle, New York (2009)

    • 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.

  • 2005: 127
  • 2006: 143
  • 2007: 88
  • 2008: 115
  • 2009: 57 (lowest in PDL)
  • 2010: 80
  • 2011: 55
  • 2012: 140

    • References

    Westchester Flames Wikipedia
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