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Despite each receiving FIFA-affiliated status in 1913, both the United States and Canada have lacked a consistent, multi-division soccer system until recently. Consequently, the determination of champions has been problematic at times. The United States did not have a truly national top flight league until the FIFA-sanctioned United Soccer Association and the "outlaw" National Professional Soccer League, which had a network television contract, merged in November 1967 to form the North American Soccer League (NASL). The NASL considered the two pre-merge forerunner leagues as part of its history.

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  • Despite each receiving FIFA-affiliated status in 1913, both the United States and Canada have lacked a consistent, multi-division soccer system until recently. Consequently, the determination of champions has been problematic at times. The United States did not have a truly national top flight league until the FIFA-sanctioned United Soccer Association and the "outlaw" National Professional Soccer League, which had a network television contract, merged in November 1967 to form the North American Soccer League (NASL). The NASL considered the two pre-merge forerunner leagues as part of its history. Before 1967, there were several regional and city leagues of various levels of quality. For example, the first and second incarnations of the American Soccer League constituted the premier level of professional soccer in the Northeastern United States, but they and teams from the St. Louis Soccer League would regularly defeat the best the other had to offer. These are only two of the most notable leagues of the regional era, as there were professional and amateur competitions in Chicago, California, the greater Western United States, Ontario, and Western Canada, among several other regions. While the creation of the NASL in 1968 brought bonafide top-flight competition to the U.S. and Canada, its collapse in 1984 saw a temporary return to the fragmented regional structure. The merger of the Western Soccer League and third iteration of the American Soccer League created a national second division in the U.S. known as the American Professional Soccer League (APSL) in 1990. The APSL later absorbed the Canadian Soccer League, which at the time was an attempt at a wholly first division within Canada. It was not until the establishment of Major League Soccer (MLS) in 1996 as part of FIFA's agreement to award the United States the 1994 World Cup that there was again a truly national, sanctioned first division in either country. Top Canadian teams resided at the second division until MLS expanded to Canada in 2007. Given the tumultuous history of professional soccer in the United States and Canada, there is a broad history of champions of various kinds in both countries, both in leagues that comprised both nations and cups that were held in only one. This article takes into account all these competitions to compile an accurate listing of American and Canadian soccer champions with an eye towards maintaining continuity. (en)
  • Il gioco del calcio o soccer venne importato negli Stati Uniti dagli immigrati europei approdati ad Ellis Island e New Orleans. La prima lega costituita per standardizzare le regole del calcio fu la American Football Association (AFA) nel 1884, con sede nel nord-est degli Stati Uniti, in particolare nel New Jersey e New York ed in seguito in Pennsylvania e Massachusetts. I primi campionati di calcio negli Stati Uniti si organizzarono soprattutto nell'est dello stato come il già citato American Football Association (AFA, 1884), la St. Louis Association Foot Ball League (SLAFBL, 1890), l' American Amateur Football Association (AAFA, 1893), la American League of Professional Football (ALPF, 1894), la National Association Football League (NAFBL, 1895), la Metropolitan Association Football League (MAFL, 1905), la St. Louis Soccer League (SLSL, 1907) e la Southern New England Football League (SNESL, 1914). Dall'unione di squadre provenienti dalla National Association Football League e dalla Southern New England Soccer League nacque nel 1921 la prima edizione della American Soccer League per diversi anni la seconda più popolare lega sportiva professionistica del Paese. Controversie con la United States Football Association e l'inizio della Grande depressione nel 1929 portarono al collasso della lega nella primavera del 1933. L'anno successivo si ebbe la rifondazione della lega con budget inferiori ed esistette fino a quando la crescita eccessiva e le limitazioni finanziarie portarono al suo collasso nel 1983. Nel 1967 si ebbe un exploit del soccer negli Stati Uniti con l'organizzazione di due campionati denominati United Soccer Association (USA, 1967) e National Professional Soccer League (NPSL I, 1967) che confluirono successivamente nella North American Soccer League (NASL, 1968). La NASL ha goduto di un notevole aumento di popolarità soprattutto per la presenza di giocatori europei e sudamericani che ne innalzarono la qualità agonistica, come ad esempio Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruijff o George Best. La grave crisi economica di numerose squadre causò nel 1985 il fallimento e la chiusura della lega. Parallelamente alla NASL si sviluppò il calcio indoor con un relativo campionato denominato Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL, 1978) giocato nei palasport ad emulazione dell'hockey o del basket. Dopo la chiusura della North American Soccer League, la MISL fu riconosciuta dalla USSF e dalla FIFA come campionato nordamericano di Prima Divisione fino alla sua chiusura nel 1992. Chiusa l'esperienza della NASL, della ASL e della USL, le società della costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti d'America e del Canada confluirono prima nella Western Soccer League (WSL, 1985) e successivamente nella nuova lega della American Professional Soccer League (APSL, 1990), de facto il massimo campionato calcistico non ricevendo mai il riconoscimento ufficiale da parte della federazione. La APSL e la A-League (1995) fecero da preludio alla fondazione della Major League Soccer (MLS, 1996), attualmente il massimo campionato calcistico degli Stati Uniti. (it)
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  • Despite each receiving FIFA-affiliated status in 1913, both the United States and Canada have lacked a consistent, multi-division soccer system until recently. Consequently, the determination of champions has been problematic at times. The United States did not have a truly national top flight league until the FIFA-sanctioned United Soccer Association and the "outlaw" National Professional Soccer League, which had a network television contract, merged in November 1967 to form the North American Soccer League (NASL). The NASL considered the two pre-merge forerunner leagues as part of its history. (en)
  • Il gioco del calcio o soccer venne importato negli Stati Uniti dagli immigrati europei approdati ad Ellis Island e New Orleans. La prima lega costituita per standardizzare le regole del calcio fu la American Football Association (AFA) nel 1884, con sede nel nord-est degli Stati Uniti, in particolare nel New Jersey e New York ed in seguito in Pennsylvania e Massachusetts. La APSL e la A-League (1995) fecero da preludio alla fondazione della Major League Soccer (MLS, 1996), attualmente il massimo campionato calcistico degli Stati Uniti. (it)
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  • Albo d'oro dei campionati statunitensi di calcio (it)
  • List of American and Canadian soccer champions (en)
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