Home Venue: Lucas Oil Stadium

2017 Season: N/A

Head Coach: Martin Rennie, 1st season

2018 OUTLOOK

Indy Eleven enters its first season in the USL with a new Head Coach in Martin Rennie, who’s aim will be to return the club to the title contender it was two seasons ago after a middling 2017 season. With extensive experience in the lower divisions and Major League Soccer, Rennie returns to the coaching ranks after most recently working in South Korea.

The club’s personnel has also undergone an overhaul, with only three members of last year’s squad returning for the new season. Those include forward Justin Braun, who helped Sacramento Republic FC claim the USL Cup in 2014 season, and the veteran forward will be joined in attack by some other notable names. Former Philadelphia Union Homegrown player Jack McInerney, who most recently played for the LA Galaxy, was one of Indy’s high-profile offseason additions alongside former Sporting Kansas City forward Soony Saad.

Improving the side defensively is likely going to be the key to success this season, however, with the club having conceded 56 goals in 32 games last year. The experience of Reiner Ferreira, Kevin Venegas and Ayoye Garcia Perez should provide a solid boost in that department, and the side will have plenty of options in midfield to build around with the Canadian duo of Tyler Pasher – a two-time USL Western Conference champion with the Swope Park Rangers – and Karl Ouimette among a solid veteran group.