Full name | AFC Cleveland |
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Nickname(s) | Royals |
Founded | November 11, 2011 |
Dissolved | December 12, 2017 |
Ground | Stan Skoczen Stadium, Independence, OH |
Capacity | 2,200[1] |
Website | https://www.afccleveland.com/ |
AFC Cleveland was an American semi-professional soccer club based in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, Ohio. Founded in 2011 and playing its first season in 2012, the team spent six years in the fourth-tier National Premier Soccer League.[2] After being expelled from the NPSL at the end of the 2017 season,[3] AFC Cleveland folded and was replaced by Cleveland SC, who began play in the NPSL in 2018.[4]