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| Full name | Minnesota TwinStars FC |
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| Nickname(s) | TwinStars FC |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Stadium | Minnetonka High School |
| Capacity | ~1,000 |
| President |
 Peter Maracotta |
| Manager |
Youssef Darbaki
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| League | APL |
| 2014 | 4th, Midwest-Central Final Four: DNQ |
Minnesota TwinStars FC is an American soccer team based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1997, the team plays in National Premier Soccer League. Prior to the 2011 season, the team was known as the St. Paul TwinStars FC.
The team played its home games at Augsburg Stadium on the campus of Augsburg College until 2011 and at Prairie Seeds Academy, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota until 2013.
The TwinStars FC historically had a long-standing relationship with the Hmong community in Minnesota, along with the African community in suburbs such as Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. In the early stages of the team's history, the dominant ethnic group that played on the Twin Stars were Hmong, from Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Midwest (now Midwest-Central) division champions two times (2008 and 2009), and National Championship runner-up once (2008), in two NPSL Final Four appearances.
History between the TwinStars FC and other professional clubs around the world have been strong. Several players have gone on to play professionally in North America and Europe, such as Alex Nyom, Geoffrey Myers, and Liberian international, Ansu Toure. Equatorial Guinean international, Francis Mbome arrived to the Minnesota outfit in 2010 and played with them for two years.
The men's team is the senior representative of the Minnesota TwinStars Academy (TSA), which was founded in 2012. The TSA U-16 club was ranked first in Minnesota in 2014, fourth in the region, and 100 nationally in just its second year of existence.
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