Southern Premier Soccer League
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| Country |
 United States
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|---|---|
| Confederation | CONCACAF |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Folded | 2011 |
| Level on pyramid | 5 |
| Promotion to | None |
| Relegation to | None |
| Domestic cup(s) | U.S. Open Cup |
| Last champions | Rio Grande Valley Ocelots FC (2011 SPSL Summer Cup) |
The Southern Premier Soccer League (SPSL) was an amateur soccer league featuring teams from Texas and Oklahoma and recognized by the United States Soccer Federation and United States Adult Soccer Association. The league comprised seven teams.
The Southern Premier Soccer League was founded in September 2010 in part of the National Premier Soccer League's inability to get a winter season started as a minimum of four teams were required to start a division (South Central). The first season took place with 6 teams (2 of which failed to finish the season), with each team playing 20 games in the regular season with the season ending on March 27, 2011. The 2011 Spring-Summer season was planned to start afterwards, with the seasons to run from September until June, with each team playing 36-40 games in the regular season.
The 2011-2012 fall-winter season, however, failed to start as planned though.
The 2010–11 regular season ran from October 2 through March 26. The league added additional teams for the 2011 Summer Cup. 2010–2011 was the only year with two partial seasons, which was established to allow the original clubs to go forward with the winter schedule and to allow the new clubs to compete in the second half of the schedule.
In 2010, National Premier Soccer League's original three South Central teams, Galveston Pirate SC, Regals FC, and Corpus Christi Fuel, joined with Texas Lonestrikers, Tulsa Lobos FC, and Houston-based Club América Academy began play later that year for the 2010-11 SPSL Winter Season. Regals won the inaugural season, with five of the six top goalscorers playing for that club.
For the 2011 Spring-Summer Season, RGV Ocelots FC (formerly Rio Grande Valley Bravos FC of the USL Premier Development League (PDL)) also joined the league.
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