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Tony Scholes will move to the US after the 2025-26 season
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USL to start new D-1 league with promotion and relegation
Tony Scholes is moving from the most popular top-tier league in the world to the newest one, which is still two and a half years away from kicking a ball.
The USL, operators of lower-division leagues in the United States, will announce on Monday that Scholes, the Premier League’s director of football, will be named president of its upcoming first division. The USL’s planned new competition will operate in US Soccer’s first division – the same level as MLS – and is set to start play by 2028. In his role, Scholes will oversee the launch of the still-unnamed league and participate in the USL’s implementation of promotion and relegation between that league and the USL’s other men’s professional competitions – the Championship and League One.
Continue reading…Tony Scholes will move to the US after the 2025-26 seasonUSL to start new D-1 league with promotion and relegationTony Scholes is moving from the most popular top-tier league in the world to the newest one, which is still two and a half years away from kicking a ball.The USL, operators of lower-division leagues in the United States, will announce on Monday that Scholes, the Premier League’s director of football, will be named president of its upcoming first division. The USL’s planned new competition will operate in US Soccer’s first division – the same level as MLS – and is set to start play by 2028. In his role, Scholes will oversee the launch of the still-unnamed league and participate in the USL’s implementation of promotion and relegation between that league and the USL’s other men’s professional competitions – the Championship and League One. Continue reading…
