It’s a new season, with new players, new owners and a new broadcast deal with ESPN, but the two teams involved in Friday night’s USL Game of the Week matchup are of the old guard.

Between the Rochester Rhinos and the Charleston Battery, two of the last five postseason championship trophies are held, as well as one of the last five regular season trophies. The Rhinos are attempting to build on the club’s first championship since 2001 a year ago, while the Battery are trying to return to prominence in 2016.

“We have a great opportunity this year in Rochester to take another step forward with this club, which has great tradition and history,” Rhinos head coach Bob Lilley said to USLSoccer.com. “The new ownership has brought new energy and resources into the mix. It’s our responsibility to take that and make an impact on the field.

“It’s a huge challenge, but we look at it as a new challenge. We lost some very good players from last year’s team. The new players on our roster didn’t win a championship last year.”

Historically, the two clubs have played across multiple leagues since the late 1990s. The matchups quickly spawned a rivalry.

“We have a long, proud history,” Battery president Andrew Bell said. “We’ve been playing since 1993, and have been playing the Rhinos since about ’97. Really until 2003 or 2004, you could argue Rochester was the biggest rival we had. Looking back at it, I think it was about how the ownerships approached it. Both of us wanted to win everything, every trophy. I think it crystalized through playoff games against one another. It seemed like for a while we were always going up against Rochester in tournaments, cups and the playoffs.”