Seattle Impact
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| Full name | Seattle Impact FC |
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| Founded | 2014 |
| Dissolved | 2015 |
| Stadium |
ShoWare Center 625 West James Street Kent, Washington 98032 |
| Capacity | 6,500 |
| Coordinates | 47°23′18″N 122°14′24″W / 47.38833°N 122.24000°WCoordinates: 47°23′18″N 122°14′24″W / 47.38833°N 122.24000°W |
| Owner | Dion Earl |
| Head Coach | Dion Earl |
| League | Major Arena Soccer League |
| Website | Club home page |
Seattle Impact FC was an American professional indoor soccer team that began play as a member of the Major Arena Soccer League with its 2014-15 season. Based in Seattle, Washington, the Impact played its home games at the ShoWare Center in nearby Kent. After struggles on and off the field, the team's assets were sold mid-season to Lane Smith whose Tacoma Stars completed Seattle's scheduled 2015 regular season games.
Originally, the team was going to be named the Tacoma Stars, in honor of the original Stars which played in the original Major Indoor Soccer League from 1983 until the league folded in 1992. However, because of a legal dispute with the Tacoma Soccer Center over ownership of said name, owner Dion Earl abandoned these plans, choosing instead to name the team Seattle Impact FC (Seattle to represent the greater metropolitan area which also included Tacoma and Kent, and Impact at his wife's suggestion).
Jason Dunn, an Olympia native who played college soccer for Washington and Seattle Pacific and later for the American Professional Soccer League's Seattle Sounders and the indoor Seattle SeaDogs, was set to serve as the Impact's inaugural head coach. Just before the regular season started, Dunn and assistant coach Todd Haley left the team after the Impact failed to make contractual payments due on October 25. Impact owner Dion Earl announced that he will serve as head coach as well as continue his role as a player.
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