2025 Schedule

The 2025 USL Championship schedule was released today, and to me, whoever concocted it had it out for LouCity. The schedule is a consistent mix of home and away, but there are some dastardly stretches in there.
City begins the 2025 season with only 2 of their first 6 at home, including the first two weekends away at Charleston and Birmingham. They will play back-to-back home games before a road trip to Sacramento and Tampa Bay. The Boys are going to have to hit the ground running to start this season with not just a road-heavy start, but one with quality opposition.
The only real home stand of sorts is late April-Early May where City will host Richmond in a Jagermeister Cup match, Lexington, and then Pitt. The Lexington home match is one of the marquee dates this year as it will be Thursday of Derby week and an official Derby event for the foreseeable future.
The next home stand opportunity is June 7-14, where in the span of one week City will face Tampa, Rhode Island, and Birmingham at home. I love facing these foes at home, I hate doing it thru three games in seven days.
The schedule makers really must like throwing successive stressful games at City as to close out August and open September they will travel to Indy, Rhode Island, and Pittsburgh.

Overall a schedule should not be a cake walk. Please do not misinterpret these ramblings as me saying City should have it easy. This is professional sports, it isn’t easy. What makes this schedule tough is the back-to-back-to-back nature of it with little respite. Facing Tampa, Rhode Island, and Birmingham three straight is tough enough, now factor in the seven day window it will occur in. Later in the year they face Indy, Rhode Island, and Pitt consecutively. Oh you were one of the best home teams last year? Here is a month on the road to start the year.
This is not a schedule that does City any favors and will test their depth, resilience, and the managerial might of Coach Cruz. This team will have to find a way to balance emotions and recharge on the fly with so many tough and intense match-ups consecutively. There is never an acceptable case for taking your foot off the gas, but especially not so with this schedule.
If any team, and if any Coach, can manage this schedule and its obstacles, it is the boys in purple.