Portland Timbers (MLS)
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| Nickname(s) | The Timbers |
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| Founded | 2009 |
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Providence Park Portland, Oregon |
| Capacity | 21,144 |
| Owner | Peregrine Sports, LLC |
| CEO | Merritt Paulson |
| Head coach | Caleb Porter |
| League | Major League Soccer |
| 2016 | Western Conference: 7th Overall: 12th Playoffs: Did not qualify |
| Website | Club home page |
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The Portland Timbers are an American professional soccer club based in Portland, Oregon. The Timbers compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference.The Timbers play their home games at Providence Park since 2011 when the team began play as an expansion team in the league.
The club was founded in 2009, when the city of Portland was awarded an expansion berth to Major League Soccer. The team is own by Merritt Paulson who acquired the then USL Pro team in 2007. The club is the fourth soccer franchise based in Portland to share the legacy of the Timbers name, which originated with the original team, in the North American Soccer League in 1975.
In 2013, the Timbers finished the Western Conference, during the regular season, in first place clinching both their first-ever playoff appearance and CONCACAF Champions League berth. The franchise won the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs, and their first major trophy, the MLS Cup in 2015.
Soccer in Portland, Oregon can be traced to the soccer team, that competed in the NASL as an expansion team, until the club's seventh season in 1982. The club's major achievement was in their inagural season during the league's playoffs, having won the league's division final, and runners-up in Soccer Bowl '75 losing to the Tampa bay Rowdies in the championship match. In 1985, F.C. Portland had established and was a charter club in the Western Soccer Alliance League and competed until folding in 1990. There would be no soccer club in the city until 2001, when the USL Timbers was founded and competed in Division 2 soccer in USL pro till the club ceased operations in 2010. The USL pro club finished with the best record in the league in both the 2004 and 2009 regular seasons.
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