Lansing Ignite

Full name

Lansing Ignite Football Club

place

Lansing, Michigan

Founded

2018

Dissolved

2019

Club colors

Stadion

Cooley Law School Stadium

Top league

USL League One

successes

home

Away

The Lansing Ignite Football Club , Lansing Ignite for short , was an American football franchise of the USL League One from Lansing , Michigan .

The team Lansing Ignite, founded in 2018, played one season in the USL League One, the third highest division in the USA.

history

The Lansing United team was active in Lansing from 2014 to 2018. This played in the National Premier Soccer League until 2017 . For the 2018 season, they switched to the Premier Development League , which was operated by the United Soccer Leagues organization. This should be another step towards a professional football team.

As early as 2017, the USL began looking for new locations to found a new league. Lansing also came into consideration here. In September 2018, the owners of the minor league baseball team Lansing Lugnuts announced that they would set up a soccer franchise in the city, which will also play in their stadium. The city approved the plans to renovate the stadium. Thus Lansing Ignite could be founded and Lansing United was then dissolved. The previous owner of United, Jeremy Sampson, became the new general manager of the franchise.

On March 19, 2019, Ignite announced a partnership with Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire .

The team finished the first season with 2nd place in the regular season. In the subsequent play-offs they lost in the semifinals against Greenville triumph .

On October 21, 2019, the franchise announced that it would cease gaming after just one season.

statistics

Season statistics

year	League level	league	Reg. Season	Playoffs	US Open Cup
2019	3	USL League One	2nd place	Semifinals	2nd round

Individual evidence

^ Graham Couch: Lansing United's move to PDL comes with new rivalries, USL dreams . In: Lansing State Journal . Gannett Company. May 1, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
^ Graham Couch: Lansing Ignite, new USL soccer club, gets go-ahead to play downtown . In: Lansing State Journal . Gannett Company. October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
↑ USLLeagueOne.com Staff: Lansing Ignite FC Unveiled as USL League One Founding Member . In: USLLeagueOne.com . USL League One. October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
↑ Phil Friend: Lansing Ignite forms alliance with Chicago Fire, will host MLS team at Cooley Stadium. In: eu.lansingstatejournal.com. March 19, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 .
↑ Lansing Ignite FC CEASES Operations. In: USLLeagueOne.com. October 21, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .

[1] Graham Couch: Lansing United's move to PDL comes with new rivalries, USL dreams . In: Lansing State Journal . Gannett Company. May 1, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

[2] Graham Couch: Lansing Ignite, new USL soccer club, gets go-ahead to play downtown . In: Lansing State Journal . Gannett Company. October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

[3] USLLeagueOne.com Staff: Lansing Ignite FC Unveiled as USL League One Founding Member . In: USLLeagueOne.com . USL League One. October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

[4] Phil Friend: Lansing Ignite forms alliance with Chicago Fire, will host MLS team at Cooley Stadium. In: eu.lansingstatejournal.com. March 19, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 .

[5] Lansing Ignite FC CEASES Operations. In: USLLeagueOne.com. October 21, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .