The Fighting Irish joins the UPSL
The United Premier Soccer League (UPSL) continue to grow and expand with new teams. The latest to join this growing league are the Buena Park FC who will be ready to take to the UPSL field for the 2015/16 Season. Buena Park FC has had great success over the years playing in multiple leagues and tournaments in Southern California and also in indoor soccer leagues. BPFC will now take that next big step in becoming a team member of the UPSL. Buena Park FC will also compete in February in the upcoming UPSL “Admiral” League Cup which is a home-away knockout aggregate tournament.
Buena Park FC will join the Southeast Conference and will compete against OC Crew, Santa Ana Winds, PSA Elite, Ozzy’s Laguna, La Maquina, Banning USA, OC Stars, Glory United, Cal Dream FC, UC Riverside, and many more clubs. For the playoffs the top team from the Southeast Conference will face against the other two UPSL Conferences, the Western Conferenceand the newly created Northwest Conference.
The UPSL now currently consists of three conferences which include the Western Conference, Southeast Conference and the Northwest Conference spanning across Southern California, which covers Los Angeles County, Orange County, Ventura County, Santa Clarita Valley and the Inland Empire.
The UPSL has 25 teams in place for its upcoming Pro Premier Season which kicks off in May, 2015 however the UPSL is on track and targeting over 30 teams to participate in the upcoming league play. The league is currently in the middle of its 2014/15 winter season schedule, which includes a Playoff/Championship format that concludes on March 2015.
Arturo Gutierrez, Founder/Head Coach of Buena Park FC said, “Buena Park FC is one of the hardest working local soccer clubs and we want to expand our opportunity for our players who want to continue to play at higher levels. We are very established in our hometown community but we want to make the transfer to a higher quality and more competitive league and we thought the United Premier Soccer League was a perfect fit for us. We have found that a high level of local teams play in the UPSL and it will be great to be the first team to play in the UPSL from Buena Park. We are excited to be a member of the UPSL and look forward to many exciting matches and cup tournaments with some of the other great local UPSL teams.”
United Premier Soccer League Yan Skwara Commissioner said, “We are excited to announce that Buena Park FC have joined the UPSL as a new member of the Southeast Conference. Anaheim is a market we wanted to expand into and BPFC is the right club to open this market for us as a league. We welcome Buena Park FC and their ownership group, players and fans to the UPSL family of teams and look forward to a long-term relationship.”
