Kalamazoo Outrage
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| Full name | Kalamazoo Outrage |
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| Nickname(s) | Outrage |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Dissolved | 2010 |
| Stadium |
Loy Norrix High School Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| Capacity | 47,256 |
| Owner |
 TKO Premier Soccer Club
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| Head Coach |
Chris Adrian
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| League | USL Premier Development League |
| 2010 | 8th, Great Lakes Playoffs: DNQ |
Kalamazoo Outrage was an American soccer team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 2007, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The franchise folded at the end of the 2010 season and left the league thereafter.
The team played its home games in the stadium on the campus of Loy Norrix High School, where they had played since 2009. The team's colors were blue and white.
The team had a sister organization, the Kalamazoo Outrage Women, who played in the women's USL W-League, and also fielded a team in the USL’s Super-20 League, a league for players 17 to 20 years of age run under the United Soccer Leagues umbrella.
Outrage were not affiliated with the Kalamazoo Kingdom soccer club, which competed in the PDL for many years until 2006, although Outrage's original head coach, Stu Riddle, was the head coach of Kingdom during its last competitive season.
Kalamazoo Outrage's entry into the PDL was announced in late 2007, just as that season's competition was ending. The club is part of the larger Kalamazoo TKO organization, which has runs men, women's and junior teams in the greater Kalamazoo area for many years. The acronym TKO apparently has no official meaning – it was first coined by a former coach, Paul Wolpert, when he was 11 years old and was part of a group of local Michigan AYSO players who participated in the Adidas Dominos Pizza Soccer Tournament in Lansing, Michigan and called themselves The Kalamazoo Outfit, or TKO for short. Since then, TKO has been used as an acronym for Technical Knock-Out, and even The Killer Oranges, both of which are listed as being correct on the official TKO website.
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