The impact of and response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic varied among sport organizations around the world. In the United States, professional and amateur soccer leagues and teams were forced to evaluate their specific context and amend operations accordingly. At the top tier of the American soccer pyramid, Major League Soccer(MLS) played two fixtures before the league office suspended its celebrated twenty-fifth anniversary season and announced an action plan that included teams resuming play later in the year.The National Women`s Soccer League (NWSL) also delayed the start date for their season and later releasedplans to become the first professional team sports league in the United States to resume play.The pandemic impacted lower tier soccer leagues and teamsdifferently. Initially, leagues such as thefourth tiermen`sUnited Soccer League Two (USL 2) and the fourth tier Women`s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) publicizedplans to delay the start of the 2020 season. However,some teams in these leagues were forced to immediately withdraw from competition due to unique structural conditions. This article examines the case of one of these organizations.
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