Bavarian United SC

Bavarian United SC

Full name	Bavarian United Soccer Club
Nickname(s)	Bavarian
Founded	1929
Stadium	Heartland Value Fund Stadium Glendale, Wisconsin
Capacity	2,000
Board President	David Anzia
Head Coach	Calum Mallace
League	USL League Two
2023	7th, Deep North Division Playoffs: DNQ
Website	https://www.bavarianunited.com/
Primary colors Secondary colors

Bavarian United SC is an American soccer team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Bavarian Majors of the Bavarian Soccer Club compete in the USL League 2. The team plays its home games in the athletic stadium at the Heartland Value Fund Stadium. The team's colors are blue and white. Bavarian has won six USASA National Amateur Cup titles as well as two National Open Cup championships and is a frequent qualifier for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

History

The original Milwaukee Bavarians club was formed by German American immigrants in 1929 as Fussball Club Bayern (Football Club Bavaria) as a multi-sports association. Their first soccer match was played on September 29, 1929 against a team from nearby Sheboygan, resulting in a 3–2 victory for Bayern. The club subsequently became very strong in its area, winning many state championships.

In 1956, the team renamed to Milwaukee Bavarian SC and bought a new field on which to play home matches. They were a charter member of the National Premier Soccer League in 2005. The team took a hiatus from the NPSL for the 2014 season to focus on completing substantial upgrades to their Heartland Value Fund Stadium. The total upgrades estimated to cost $1.1 million. At the end of that hiatus, they joined the Great Lakes Premier League, which changed its name to the Premier League of America shortly thereafter.

In their first season in the PLA, the Bavarians won both the West Division and League Championships, and had five players named to the West Division Team of the Year.

In 2021, Milwaukee Bavarian merged with Inter Northshore FC and renamed to Bavarian United SC. On February 7, 2023, it was announced that Bavarian would be joining USL League Two and USL W League for the upcoming 2023 season.

National Championships

Bavarian Soccer Club has won nine national championships. In 1976 they won their first National Amateur Cup, when they defeated a team from Trenton, New Jersey 3–1 in the final. They repeated this success in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2018, and 2022. They have also finished as runners-up in this tournament (1983, 2016, and 2017).

In 2018, the Bavarians won the United Premier Soccer League (UPSL) national championship, defeating Sporting AZ FC 3–2 in the championship.

In 2003 the Bavarians also won the USASA National Open Cup amateur championship. The club would win the competition again in 2009. USASA eliminated this national tournament in 2015.

Bavarian SC competed in the 1994 U.S. Open Cup as Bavarian Leinenkugel as they were sponsored by the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company that year.

Current squad

As of March 2023

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	USA	Agustín Rey
2	MF	USA	Mathew Yang
3	FW	USA	Joseph Raasch
4	DF	USA	Jacob Streicher
5	DF	USA	Alex Mirsberger
6	DF	USA	Bret Dietz
7	MF	USA	Logan Andryk
8	MF	USA	Alejandro Pacheco
9	MF	USA	Ivan Cuellar

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
10	MF	MEX	Jose Gutierrez
11	FW	USA	Braden Andryk
12	DF	USA	Joseph Haines
13	MF	USA	John Bradford
14	FW	NGA	Dogara Zamani
17	DF	USA	Buran Huseini
19	MF	USA	Matthew Comiskey
20	MF	USA	Michael Russell
31	MF	USA	Nathan Watkins

Year-by-year

Year	League	Regular Season	Playoffs	U.S. Open Cup	National Amateur Cup
1976				Unknown	Champions
1983				Unknown	Runners-up
1993				Semifinals
1994				Runners-up
1999				First round
2000				First round
2001				did not qualify	Champions
2002				did not qualify	Champions
2003				Third round	Champions
2004				First round
2005	NPSL	2nd, Midwest		did not qualify
2006	NPSL	4th, Midwest	did not qualify	did not qualify
2007	NPSL	2nd, Midwest	did not qualify	Second round
2008	NPSL	4th, Midwest	did not qualify	did not qualify
2009	USASA	N/A	N/A	First round
2010	NPSL	4th, Midwest	did not qualify	did not qualify
2011	NPSL	1st, Midwest	National Semifinals	did not qualify
2012	NPSL	2nd, Midwest-Central	did not qualify	First round
2013	NPSL	2nd, Midwest-Central	did not qualify	did not qualify
2014	On hiatus
2015
2016	PLA	1st, West	Champions	did not qualify	Runners-up
2017	PLA	2nd, West	Champions	did not qualify	Runners-up
2018	UPSL	1st, Midwest-North	Champions	did not qualify	Champions
2019	UPSL Spring	1st, Midwest-Central	National Semifinals	First round	Region II finals
2020				canceled	canceled
2021	MWPL	1st, Western	no playoffs	canceled	Region II semifinals
2022	MWPL	1st, Western	no playoffs	did not qualify	Champions
2023	USL2	7th, Deep North	did not qualify	First round	Region II finals
2024	USL2	TBD		did not qualify	TBD

Honors

League

• UPSL National Playoffs
  • Winner (1): 2018 Spring
• PLA Playoffs
  • Winner (2): 2016, 2017
• Midwest Premier League West Division
  • Winner (2): 2021, 2022
• UPSL Midwest Conference North Division
  • Winner (1): 2018 Spring
• UPSL Midwest Conference Playoffs
  • Winner (1): 2018 Spring
• UPSL Midwest Central Division
  • Winner (1): 2019 Spring
• UPSL Midwest Conference Playoffs
  • Winner (1): 2019 Spring
• NPSL Midwest Division
  • Winner (1): 2011
  • Runners-up (2): 2005, 2007
• NPSL Midwest-Central Conference
  • Runners-up (2): 2012, 2013
• PLA West Division
  • Winner (1): 2016
  • Runners-up (1): 2017

Cup

• Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1994
• USASA Amateur Cup
  • Winner (6): 1976, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2018, 2022
  • Runners-up (3): 1983, 2016, 2017
• USASA Werner Fricker Open Cup
  • Winner (2): 2003, 2009 (National competition ceased after 2015)
• Hank Steinbrecher Cup
  • 4th Place (1): 2019

Head coaches

• Tom Zaiss (1996–2006)
• Jon Mroz (2007–2008)
• Andreas Davi (2009–2011)
• Patrick Hodgins (2012–present)

Stadium

• Heartland Value Fund Stadium; Glendale, Wisconsin (1950–present)

External links

• Official website