The 2024 USL Championship title runs through Lynn Family Stadium!
LouCity won the Players’ Shield — awarded for a regular season title — and holds home field advantage throughout the playoffs that continue Saturday, November 9, against Rhode Island FC. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Eastern Conference Semifinal round.
Gates open at 6 p.m. for our $2 happy hour featuring beer, Pepsi products and water. You’ll also find inflatables, lawn games, mini pitch soccer and sponsor activations in the BlueOval SK Fan Zone at the stadium’s open end.
The 2024 USL Championship Playoffs are a single-elimination, fixed-bracket competition that saw the top-eight teams from the Eastern and Western conferences qualify.
Previously, top-seeded City defeated North Carolina FC by a 3-2 score in the conference quarterfinal round. The victory moved the boys in purple to 17-1 in home games this year across the regular season and playoffs.
The only club to defeat LouCity at Lynn Family Stadium? That was eventual No. 5 seed Rhode Island, an expansion team that continued a dream debut season with a 3-2, playoff-opening upset of Indy Eleven.
The boys in purple played Rhode Island to a scoreless away draw back on May 25 in their first meeting. Rhode Island shocked LouCity in the clubs’ June 22 return game at Lynn Family Stadium by registering a 5-2 win.
City has been otherwise flawless on home soil, where it’s scoring 3.4 goals per game and boasts a +38 goal differential this season.
The playoffs culminate with the conference final round November 15-17 before the USL Championship Final on Saturday, November 23.
LouCity’s looking to add to a decorated history that includes consecutive league titles in 2017 and 2018, plus Eastern Conference championships in 2019 and 2022.
The theme
Veteran defender Sean Totsch stars in a new video as LouCity enters the playoffs off a record-breaking regular season! The top-seeded boys in purple are looking to win their first USL Championship title in six years.
In Totsch’s words: “It’s been a while — too long if you ask me.” So this fall, LouCity will “Reach for the Stars,” looking to add to its crest as the 2024 USL Championship Playoffs’ No. 1 overall seed.
The bracket
Eastern Conference Quarterfinal: November 2
Eastern Conference Semifinals: November 8-10
Eastern Conference Final: November 15-17
USL Championship Final: November 23
