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| Full name | Texas United Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Texans, Los Tejanos | ||
| Founded | 2017; 7 years ago (2017) | ||
| Stadium | John Clark Stadium Plano, Texas | ||
| Capacity | 14,224 | ||
| Owner | Kiran Devaprasad | ||
| President | Vacant | ||
| Head Coach | Vacant | ||
| League | USL League Two | ||
| 2023 | 1st, Mid South Division Playoffs: Conference Semifinals | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Texas United is an American soccer club that currently competes in USL League Two,[1][2] the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The club plays its home games at the John Clark Stadium.
In March 2017, it was announced that the club had been granted a franchise license for USL League 2, to operate in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area.
The team is owned by Neltex Sports Group who are also owners of the Texas Airhogs and co-owners of the NBA G League franchise the Texas Legends.[3]
The club was founded in March 2017 and announced Ryan Higginbotham as the club's inaugural head coach. The Texans finished the season with a respectful 5–8–1.
In January 2018 Neltex Sports Group hired Arez Ardalani as the new head coach of Texas United. Signings of new players saw plenty of FC Dallas college based players added to the roster.[4] The Texans started the season very strong with a 5–0 victory against FC Cleburne at home and a 3–2 victory against OKC Energy U23 away. After multiple away games and a tough schedule the Texans were able to set the franchise record at 5–6–3, with multiple team and individual honors. As a result of the successful season many players were invited to or signed professional contracts with USL organizations such as Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC[5] and North Texas SC.[6]
Texas United started its 2019 season with early spring exhibitions against USL Championship clubs such as El Paso Locomotive FC,[7] OKC Energy, and Swope Park Rangers.[8] After the spring season Texas United moved forward with signing multiple trialist that impressed during the exhibition matches.[9] The club had its 2019 season opener against Houston Dynamo USL 2 franchise Brazos Valley Cavalry FC.[10]
Spring season play began in January with Texas United playing El Paso Locomotive FC.[11] Before the beginning of the 2020 USL Championship season the squad went down to play the Austin Bold FC.[12] The USL League 2 season was cancelled due to COVID-19.
2021 was a historic season for Texas United. The team made playoffs for the first time in club history and posted a franchise record of 6–5–3.
Texas United won their first trophy in 2022 by clinching the USL2 MidSouth Division championship in historic fashion. The club went undefeated with a 9–0–5 record, the only non-MLS club to do so in the division's 20-year history.[13] Texas United finished the season ranked 12th out of 113 clubs in the regular seasons final power rankings. Arez Ardalani left the club after the season, ending his era which took the Texas United project from a low tier USL 2 club to a top 15 tier 1 club.
After Ardalani's departure to Vancouver FC of the Canadian Premier League new ownership decided to hire Dave Jacobs as the new head coach. The season ended in another MidSouth Division championship, however due to the owners record high financial spending for the 2023 season and only doing marginally better than last season the club could not return for the 2024 USL2 season.
| Coaching staff | |
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| Head Coach & Technical Director | Vacant |
| Associate Head Coach | Vacant |
| Assistant Coach | Vacant |
| Assistant Coach & Goalkeeper Coach | Vacant |
| Head Athletic Trainer | Vacant |
| Year | Division | League | Regular Season | Record (W-D-L) | Playoffs | Open Cup |
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| 2017 | 4 | USL PDL | 4th, Mid South | 5-1-8 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2018 | 4 | USL PDL | 5th, Mid South | 5-3-6 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2019 | 4 | USL League Two | 5th, Mid South | 2-1-11 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2020 | 4 | USL League Two | Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | 4 | USL League Two | 3rd, Mid South | 6-3-5 | Conference Quarterfinals | Did not qualify |
| 2022 | 4 | USL League Two | 1st, Mid South | 9-5-0 | Conference Quarterfinals | Did not qualify |
| 2023 | 4 | USL League Two | 1st, Mid South | 10-2-0 | Conference Semifinals | Qualified but rejected invitation to participate |
| Coach | Nationality | Start | End | Games | Win | Draw | Loss | Win % |
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| Ryan Higginbotham |  United States
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April 1, 2017 | July 30, 2017 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 035.71 |
| Arez Ardalani | United States
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January 29, 2018 | December 15, 2022 | 52 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 042.31 |
| Hassan Nemati (Interim) | United States
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June 10, 2019 | June 24, 2019 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 000.00 |
| Dave Jacobs | United States
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January 1, 2023 | December 1, 2023 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 083.33 |
The club played in AirHogs Stadium, a baseball park that was also the home field for the Texas AirHogs of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. The venue featured a 17,000 square-foot Wide World of Parks Kids Zone, restaurant/sports bar, cigar bar and swimming pool. It seated 5,500 and offered 13 luxury suites.[14]
The facility had housed a number of minor league franchises, college sporting events and concerts such as the Dallas Desire, NJCAA College Baseball, High school Baseball, WAC Baseball Tournament and the NCAA Division II Baseball World Series in 2017.
With AirHogs Stadium being bought for conversion to a cricket-specific stadium,[15][16] the club's home games were played primarily at the University of Texas at Dallas beginning in the 2021 season, though their schedule also showed home dates at two public schools: Arlington Heights High School and Gateway Field at Gateway Charter Academy.[17][18]
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