2010 NPSL season
The 2010 National Premier Soccer League season is the 8th season of the NPSL. The season began on April 3, 2010, and ended with the NPSL Championship Game in August. The NPSL had planned for form a Winter league that would play from September 2010 to March 2011 but when only three clubs were willing to participate the plans were dropped. Those three clubs eventually ended up forming the SPSL for that Fall, though that league would fold the following Spring.
Changes from 2009
New clubs
- Twelve clubs joined the league this year, eleven new clubs and one returning to the NPSL after playing for several years in USASA regional amateur leagues:
| Team name | Metro area | Location | Previous affiliation |
| Boston Tea Men | Boston area | North Andover, MA | expansion |
| Brooklyn Italians | Borough of Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY | expansion |
| FC Buffalo | Buffalo area | Buffalo, NY | expansion |
| TSC Maryland Red Devils | Baltimore area | Columbia, MD | expansion |
| Milwaukee Bavarians | Milwaukee area | Milwaukee, WI | return from USASA |
| Minnesota Kings | Minneapolis area | Minnetonka, MN | expansion |
| New Hampshire Mountaineers | State of New Hampshire | Manchester, NH | expansion |
| New Jersey Blaze | Central New Jersey area | Monmouth Junction, NJ | expansion |
| New York Red Bull NPSL | New York area | Newark, NJ | expansion |
| Sacramento Gold | Sacramento area | Sacramento, CA | expansion |
| San Diego Boca FC | San Diego area | La Mesa, CA | expansion |
| FC Tulsa | Tulsa area | Tulsa, OK | expansion |
Name changes
- Pennsylvania Stoners changed its name to FC Sonic Lehigh Valley
Folding
- Eight teams left the league prior to the beginning of the season:
- *Boston Aztec – Amesbury, Massachusetts
- *Buffalo City – Buffalo, New York
- *Charm City – Gambrills, Maryland
- *FC Indiana – Lafayette, Indiana
- *Maine Sting – Bangor, Maine
- *NorCal Lamorinda United – Orinda, California
- *Salinas Valley Samba – Watsonville, California
- *Saturn FC – East Point, Georgia
- Also, four teams which spent the 2009 season on hiatus did not return, and left the league permanently:
- *Albuquerque Asylum – Albuquerque, New Mexico
- *Arizona Sahuaros – Phoenix, Arizona
- *Atlantic City Diablos – Richland, New Jersey
- *San Diego United – El Cajon, California
Standings
Purple indicates division title clinched''Green indicates playoff berth clinched''
Playoffs
Northeast Division Playoff
FC Sonic Lehigh Valley beat New York Red Bull NPSLNorthwest Division Playoffs
Sacramento Gold 6–3 Bay Area AmbassadorsSan Diego Boca 4–0 Real San Jose
Sacramento Gold beat San Diego Boca
National Semi-Finals
Sacramento Gold 4–1 FC Sonic Lehigh ValleyChattanooga FC 2–0 Madison 56ers