Tacoma FC finish with a record of W-4 D-4 L-8 in league...5th place out of 6 clubs in the PDL Northwest Division.

A Yellow Football Team

Gallery

2006 Season

TFC is born

Program Cover / Roster

BYU Cover / Roster

Fan Fun: Ball 1 2 3

Signed Hat

YELLOWfans.com

At Yakima Reds

Tacoma v. Seattle

Winning

Weekend

2006 Results: W-4 D-4 L-9

May 12.........Tacoma FC 0:0 Abbotsford, Curtis High School Viking Field

May 13.........Tacoma FC 0:1 Cascade, Viking Field. (CAS: Cheek (Chapman) 55)

May 20.........Tacoma FC 1:1 Yakima, Viking Field. (TFC: Schomaker 19 YAK: Mertens 40)

May 26.........BYU 3:0 Tacoma FC, South Stadium. (BYU: Cavanaugh (Ojuka) 6, Magleby (Trejo) 26, Trejo (pen.) 58)

May 27.........Ogden 3:0 Tacoma FC, Ogden HS. (OGD: Baca 7, Gates 73, Baca (pen.) 84)

June 2..........Cascade 0:4 Tacoma FC, Willamette.  (TFC: Spencer (Willis) 9, Willis (Schomaker) 56, Ferguson (Schomaker) 58, Spencer (Willis) 78)
June 10........Tacoma FC 2:2 San Francisco, Viking Field.(SF: Carson 8, TFC: Schomaker (Abel) 50, TFC: Agu 56, SF: Diaz (pen.) 84)

June 16........Tacoma FC 0:0 BYU, Viking Field.

June 23........Yakima 3:0 Tacoma FC, Marquette Stadium. (YAK: C Sardon (pen.) 45, Merten (C Sardon) 60, Merten (C Sardon) 72)

June 30........Abbotsford 1:0 Tacoma FC, Bateman Park. (ABB: Schmidt (M Riehl) 27)

July 6...........Seattle Sounders 2:1 Tacoma FC (Friendly, Qwest Field) (Sea: Tomlinson 11, Sea: Levesque 56, TFC: Spencer 88)

July 7...........Tacoma FC 3:1 Yakima, Viking Field. (TFC: Schomaker 15, TFC: Agu (Schomaker) 29, TFC: Agu (Schomaker) 74, YAK: C Sardon 53)

July 8...........Tacoma FC 5:2 Cascade, Viking Field. (TFC: Schomaker (Agu) 13, CAS: Martin (Knight) 18, TFC: Anton (Hallenbeck) 18, TFC: Spencer (Agu) 41, TFC: Hallenbeck (Agu) 62, CAS: Chavez 69, TFC: Hand 89)

July 14.........Tacoma 1:2 Abbotsford, Viking Field. (TFC: Agu (Spencer) 41, ABB: Simon Crocker 48, ABB: Sean Crocker 84)

July 15.........Cascade 2:1 Tacoma FC, Willamette. (CAS: Knight (Griffiths) 7, TFC: Hand 26, CAS: Knight (Hagen) 36)

July 21.........Yakima 2:4 Tacoma FC, Marquette. (YAK: Mertens (C Sardon) 10, TFC: Varlamos 17,TFC: Hallenbeck (Hand) 41, TFC: Agu 54, YAK: Mariani 82, TFC: Anton 86)

July 23.........Abbotsford 3:0 Tacoma FC, Bateman. (Goals not recorded on league website)

Excerpt from a June 2006 story in the Tacoma News Tribune

The USL is celebrating its 20th anniversary this season, and includes a First Division (of which the Seattle Sounders are a member), a Second Division and then PDL, which is primarily for players 23 and younger. That makes it – in effect – the fourth division of U.S. soccer, behind MLS and the two higher USL divisions.

“The quality is excellent,” said Mike Jennings, owner of Tacoma FC. “It’s basically like going to watch a UW game. Some play local, some play in other places in the country, but they come back to have a good summer schedule to keep them sharp as they go back to their other places. … The idea is that we want to attract fans to see a good level of local kids.”

Jennings is as local as his roster. He once coached the University of Puget Sound women’s team, and he has been involved with FC Seattle and FC United.

He also has friends in the USL, and when the Spokane Shadow went out of business just one month before the start of the season, those friends urged Jennings to create a Tacoma team to take its place.

“That’s clearly a pretty short time to pull something together operationally, but I talked with the league and I thought I could pull it off: finding players and getting a stadium, and just getting the thing off the ground,” he said. “It’s really only been about two months. We’ve been playing games about (one month) now, and I had about a month before that to get things going. It’s a good fit for me, and I think it’s a good fit for the area.”

Even in haste, Jennings believes he picked the right stadium: Viking Field at Curtis High School, which he envisions as his team’s long-term home. However, his rush didn’t allow much thought about a team name, so he went with something basic and intends to invite fans to help select a new name and mascot for future seasons.