Recent Alumni News. The National Premier Soccer League's is divided into four separate regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, and West). will start to come together, faster.This is going to be a long post with a lot of numbers. First look at them at a high-level and then we’ll spend some time breaking each number down.Let’s start with the Operating Expenses — $82k is a ways off from the $50k I was shooting for, but we found that some things ended up being more expensive than we expected and there were many costs we didn’t initially plan for. And I believe that as more people across the country create clubs, the other pieces of the puzzle (more players, stronger teams, open leagues, etc.) The “think of it like a wedding” analogy turned out to be a good one, except for that fact that some of our big ticket items ended up costing $15k instead of $10k, which added a lot of extra costs to our original projections.So, let’s dive into the numbers. (If you are interested in talking about 2017 sponsorship opportunities, please contact Also worth noting that some prices were negotiated and some costs were bartered (aka: we didn’t collect $18,500 in cash). We used Twitter more for telling a larger nationwide story of the club and our goals. In my original post, I alluded to the fact that we initially thought we could make the club work on a budget of $50,000 and that we thought we had a decent shot of getting close to break-even in our first season. In the future I’d like to find a way to sell beer from local brewery (Okay, so now that we’ve walked through both expenses and revenue, let’s look at the whole picture:And while it seems rough to end the season with a $20k loss, look at all we accomplished in just over a year.
If you took that up to $250/week/player or $500/week/player, you’re talking about an approx $70,000 — $150,000 payroll for a relatively short, 16-week season. This was not our explicit strategy when we started to seek out sponsors, but in hindsight, this is how our sponsorships came together and it worked out great for our club.Towards the middle of the season we were able to start using local printing houses (We found that 70% of our merchandise sales came during home games with the remaining 30% coming through our Our online store costs between $75–100/month to run ($30/month to Shopify and about $40–70/month in inventory costs).
Each year the member clubs help elect a chairman, treasurer, and secretary and an eight-member board of directors. We had one hell of an inaugural season (2016), exceeding all of our original expectations:#2. The NPSL expanded further in 2007 with the addition of a new Northeast Conference and … This should be doable as there’s a lot to chip away at. Since something (or someone) or has to pay for the club’s expenses, it tends to be a mix of one or more of the four elements below:Stockade FC, which started from scratch in the fall of 2015, is a mix of (b) Sponsorship / Tickets / Merchandise Revenue and (e) Outside Investment. Many NPSL teams have rivalries given the close geography of the teams throughout the league.
Having Attendance numbers in the NPSL are hard to come by, but we easily had the largest home crowds in our North Atlantic conference (most away games had < 20 fans, and only our away matches at Brooklyn and Boston City had 50–100). Help us out Contact sponsorships@stockadefc.com)I am assuming that our squad will look similar next season — a mix of college players and post-college or non-college players — and I expect that we’ll continue as Amateur Team (with non-paid players) for at least the next few seasons. Let’s look at how these operating expenses break down (ranked from most expensive to least):The primary expense in this number was investing in Social Media played a huge part in telling our club’s story. Not “wrong”, just “off”. League News. After seeing the squad we assembled this season, I believe we’re capable of being competitive in the NPSL and capable of qualifying for the US Open Cup.