Major Indoor Soccer League
Current season or competition: 2007-08 Major Indoor Soccer League season
Sport	Indoor Soccer
Founded	2001
No. The 2007-08 Major Indoor Soccer League season is the seventh season for the league This article is primarily regarding indoor soccer as played in North America Artistic gymnastics World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: Men's all-around champion Feng Jing, China of teams	none
Country(ies)	United States and  Mexico
Most recent champion(s)	Baltimore Blast
TV partner(s)	Fox Soccer Channel
Official website	http://www.misl.net

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History

In the summer of 2001, the National Professional Soccer League disbanded. The National Professional Soccer League was a professional Indoor soccer league in the USA. The six surviving teams organized the MISL as a single-entity structure similar to Major League Soccer. Major League Soccer ( MLS) is the top-flight professional Soccer league in the United States and Canada with 14 teams 13 in the U In 2002, the MISL absorbed two teams from the World Indoor Soccer League, the Dallas Sidekicks and San Diego Sockers. The World Indoor Soccer League was an Indoor soccer league that existed from 1998 to 2001 and consisted of nine teams The St. Louis Steamers, another former WISL team, joined the following year. On May 27, 2008, Commissioner Steve Ryan stepped down as the commissioner of the MISL, and then on June 2, 2008, the Management Committee of the MISL announced they had ceased operations effective May 31, 2008 to reform the league.

Organization

The MISL was organized in a single table playing a 30 game schedule. Traditionally, the season began in October and ended in March. The league also conducted an All-Star Game at midseason. Major Indoor Soccer League All-Star Game is a showcase Indoor soccer game played each year involving the best players in the current Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL It pitted Eastern teams against Western teams and USA All-Stars against World All-Stars as well as the MISL All-Stars against a Mexican team. No All-Star Game was played in the 2004-2005 and 2006-2007 seasons. The All-Star game scheduled for the 2007-08 season in Stockton, California was also canceled. Stockton is a City in California and the seat of San Joaquin County (the fifth largest agricultural county in the United States

The top six teams qualified for the playoffs, which began in April. A playoff or final in Sports is a game or series of games played after the regular season is over with the goal of determining a league champion or a similar accolade In the first round, the sixth place team played the third place team while the fourth and fifth place teams also played either other. The top two teams received a bye in the first round. The survivors of the first round played the top two seeds in the semifinals with the first place team playing the lowest surviving seed from the first round and the second place team playing the highest surviving seed. The two semi-final winners met in the MISL Championship Final. The first two rounds were a two game series with a golden goal tie breaker. The Championship Final was a single game at a predetermined neutral site.

Television

The MISL has a relative lack of television coverage for being a national professional sports league. In February 2007, the league and Versus announced a partnership to deliver a nationally televised game of the week starting in March 2007. Versus is a Cable television sports channel owned by Comcast and shown in the United States. For the 2006 - 2007 season, Versus broadcast two regular season games, a MISL Championship Series Semifinal game on April 14, and the MISL Championship Series Final. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Additionally, the MISL produced its first-ever live magazine show to preview the 2007 MISL Championship Series. Before the 2006 - 2007 season, national television coverage was limited to the MISL Championships of the 2004 - 2005 and 2005 - 2006 seasons, which were shown on ESPN2. ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN.

For the 2007-08, the MISL signed an agreement with Fox Soccer Channel to televise 20 games that season. Fox Soccer Channel is a United States Digital cable network owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer.

In addition to national television, certain games were shown in local markets over local cable networks like CN8. The Comcast Network (also known as CN8) is a cable television station that is shown mostly in parts of Comcast Cable services in the Eastern part of

MISL teams

Main article: MISL Team Capsules

Annual awards

Main article: Major Indoor Soccer League awards

MISL Championship series

MISL Championships Won

Championship formats

Rules

Main article: indoor soccer

The MISL game was the standard North American version of indoor soccer. The Philadelphia KiXX is an indoor soccer team founded in 1995 as an NPSL expansion franchise that plays its games at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia Honors Championships None Division Titles 2006-07 MISL Regular Season 2007-08 MISL Regular Season For the original team see Monterrey La Raza (1992-2001 The Monterrey La Raza is an Indoor soccer team currently playing in the current The Philadelphia KiXX is an indoor soccer team founded in 1995 as an NPSL expansion franchise that plays its games at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia Honors Championships 1997-1998 NPSL Champions 1999-2000 NPSL Champions 2000-2001 NPSL Champions 2004-2005 MISL Champions This article is primarily regarding indoor soccer as played in North America It was different from the FIFA-sanctioned futsal. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (French for International Federation of Association Football) Futsal is an indoor version of Association football. Its name is derived from the Portuguese fut ebol de sal ão and the Spanish

Each MISL game consisted of four 15-minute quarters. There were breaks between the first two and the last two quarters. There was also a 15-minute halftime. Ties resulted in consecutive 15-minute sudden death overtimes. Sudden death (or a sudden death round) is a way of providing a winner for a Contest or Game (typically a Sport) which would otherwise Overtime is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a Sport in order to bring the game to a decision and avoid declaring the contest a tie or draw

An MISL field was roughly the size of an ice hockey rink, measuring 200 feet by 80 feet. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. Goals measured 14 feet by 8 feet and are set into the boards. Players were allowed to bounce the ball off the dasher boards. Play stopped if the ball leaves the field of play.

During an MISL game, each team was allowed to have 6 players on the field at a time. One player was the goalkeeper who handled the ball while in the penalty arc. In many team Sports a goalkeeper (termed goaltender netminder, goalie, or keeper in some sports The other players were generally divided as two defenders, one midfielder, and two forwards. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing Substitution was unlimited and may happen "on the fly" during play.

Fouls and misconducts were generally the same as outdoor soccer with a few changes. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered First, all kicks were direct, with no whistle to restart play, which usually resulted in a "quick start". Also, the MISL utilized blue cards in addition to the traditional yellow and red cards of outdoor soccer.

Blue cards were for fouls that earn possible two minute power plays. Yellow cards were given for dissent, resulting in a 5 minute penalty but the offending team did not play short.

All red cards in the MISL resulted in a two minute power play. Red cards were awarded for violent conduct or accumulation of cards (3 blues or 2 yellows).

Originally, the MISL had a multiple point scoring system where goals were worth 1, 2, or 3 points depending upon the distance that they were scored or game situation. The former WISL teams objected to this. After the 2003 Championship, the league began using a traditional one-point-per-goal rule because of a controversial goal scored during the deciding game. However, the league went back to multipoint scoring in 2006 with 2- and 3-point goals.

Average attendance

Source: kenn.com

Notes

See also

• American Indoor Soccer League
• Index of Professional Sports teams in the United States and Canada
• Sports league attendances

External links

• MISL
• MISL Rules