SAN DIEGO – ASC San Diego has joined the Women’s Premier Soccer League as an expansion club for the 2019 season, the league announced Thursday.

ASC San Diego will work in partnership with Albion SC, a nationally recognized youth club in San Diego that is a member of the U.S. Development Academy. Albion SC has seen 10 players called up to United States national teams and hundreds of players that have earned more than $30 million in collegiate scholarships. The club has a partnership with English Premier League powers Arsenal F.C. in London.

Noah Gins, Albion SC’s CEO and technical director, is ASC San Diego’s owner. Gins, a former All-American collegiate soccer player at UNLV and New Mexico, first moved to San Diego in 1998 when he played in the A-League for the San Diego Flash.

ASC San Diego also has a men’s club that plays in the National Premier Soccer League. The club launched in 2015 under Gins’ leadership and has won its conference two of the past three years.

“ASC San Diego will put forth the best team and operate with the highest standards inspiring greatness throughout,” Gins said. “Thank you to the WPSL for giving us the opportunity to come into the league at a very exciting time in women’s soccer. The U.S. Development Academy, the World Cup in 2019 and the growth around the women’s game — it’s all very exciting times.”

ASC San Diego will play in the West Region. It will have immediate city rivals in San Diego SeaLions, LA Galaxy San Diego and San Diego Parceiro Ladies.

The club joins Coastal Atlantic Futbol Club (Frederica, Delaware), EGA Omaha, Alamo City SC (San Antonio), Chatham FC (Savannah, Georgia) and Wake FC (Raleigh, North Carolina) as announced 2019 expansion clubs.

The WPSL is in its 22nd season and is the largest women’s soccer league in the world with more than 100 clubs from coast-to-coast. WPSL rosters feature elite collegiate, post-collegiate, international and standout prep student-athletes. Many of the United States’ most accomplished women’s players have played in the WPSL, including household names such as Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Megan Rapinoe, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain.



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