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Oakland Roots
Full nameOakland Roots Sports Club
FoundedJuly 2018; 8 years ago (2018-07)
StadiumOakland Coliseum[1]
Capacity15,000
Owner
List
PresidentLindsay Barenz
Head coachRyan Martin
LeagueUSL Championship
202610th, Western Conference
Playoffs: DNQ
Websiteoaklandrootssc.com
Current season

Oakland Roots Sports Club is an American professional soccer club based in Oakland, California, that competes in the USL Championship (Western Conference). Founded in July 2018 by Edreece Arghandiwal and Benno Nagel, the club began play in the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) before moving to the USL Championship in 2021.[3] Established with the guiding principle "Oakland First, Always" and a vision to become the United States' first purpose-driven professional sports team,[4] the club's best on-field result came during its NISA era as the Fall 2020 Western Conference champions, finishing as runners-up in the NISA Fall Championship final to Detroit City FC (2–1).[5] In the USL Championship, the Roots have not won a league title, with their deepest postseason appearances reaching the conference semifinals in 2021 and 2022.[6]

After playing across five different venues in five years, the Roots played their home matches at the Oakland Coliseum in 2025 and 2026, utilizing a 15,000-seat configuration.[7] Their March 22, 2025 home opener against San Antonio FC drew a sellout crowd of 26,575—a 2–1 defeat—[8][9] while average attendance across the 2025 season rose to approximately 8,000.[10] In July 2026, the club announced it would leave the Coliseum after the 2026 season, citing operational costs, matchday flexibility, event control, and the paramount importance of controlling its own venue.[11] Their final match at the Coliseum took place on October 10, 2026, before 9,718 spectators as part of a farewell celebration.[12]

The club operates on a community ownership model, highlighted by former NFL player Marshawn Lynch joining the ownership group in April 2021[13] and an equity crowdfunding round in late 2023 that raised over $2.4 million from more than 4,000 new owners, drawing notable figures such as Billie Joe Armstrong and Josh Johnson.[14] Formed as Oakland's major professional sports franchises relocated elsewhere, the Roots serve as a local rallying point supported by six supporter groups, three of which — Homegrown Hooligans, Forever Oakland, and Los Roots — form the La Union 1852 umbrella.[15][12] The organization also oversees associated teams, including Oakland Soul (competing in the USL W League since 2023)[16] and the reserve team Project 51O, which began play in USL League Two in 2022.[17] On the field, the 2025 season featured Peter Wilson winning the USL Championship Golden Boot with 18 goals,[18] while the 2026 campaign saw the club finish 10th in the Western Conference (9–11–10, 38 points, 39 goals for and 40 against) and miss the playoffs following a 3–2 defeat to Sacramento Republic FC in the October 24 regular-season finale.[19][20] The club is led by president Lindsay Barenz[21] and head coach Ryan Martin, who was appointed on November 18, 2025.[22]

History

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Soccer in Oakland

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Oakland’s soccer history dates back to the late 19th century, with early activity in Northern California spurred by amateur clubs and the formation of the California State Football Association in 1902.[23] The early 1900s also saw matches played by British ship crews in the Bay Area, further popularizing the sport.[24] Professional soccer arrived in Oakland in 1967 with the Oakland Clippers of the National Professional Soccer League, who won the 1967 championship before joining the North American Soccer League.[25][26] The Oakland Buccaneers began play in the 1976 season as an expansion franchise for the American Soccer League (ASL) but folded following the season due to financial issues.[27] The Oakland Stompers followed to play in the North American Soccer League (NASL) 1978 season, but relocated to Edmonton the following year.[28][29]

Founding and early vision

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Oakland Roots SC was founded by Edreece Arghandiwal and Benno Nagel, two Oakland natives with a shared passion for soccer and community-building.[30] Arghandiwal, an entrepreneur with a background in marketing, and Nagel, a former professional coach with experience in Europe and the North American Soccer League (NASL), combined their complementary skill sets to establish a club rooted in local identity.[31][32] Arghandiwal's connection to the sport was influenced by his family's involvement in Afghan soccer—his father managed a club, and his uncle played for the national team—while Nagel brought technical expertise and coaching experience to the project.[31]

Nagel, who had long championed the idea of professional soccer in Oakland, believed the city was a natural fit. “I think Oakland for soccer makes a lot of sense on a lot of levels,” he said. “If you announced that tomorrow at 3 p.m. Club América and Chivas were going to play at the Oakland Coliseum and tickets were on sale for 24 hours, you would sell it out. That’s how big soccer is here.” He emphasized that the club’s success would hinge on its connection to the community, noting, “The reason we got a lot of people interested in what we were doing was because we brought them into the conversation and asked them, ‘What do you want to see?’”[33]

The idea for the club emerged from conversations between the two at a Bay Area Afghan-American community soccer tournament.[32] Both co-founders saw an opportunity to create a professional team that authentically represented Oakland’s culture and diversity.[31] Recognizing the city's rich but underrepresented soccer tradition and large youth participation base, they envisioned a club that would embody Oakland’s values both on and off the field.[34]

The formation of a new professional soccer team based in Oakland was announced in July 2018, and the name Oakland Roots was revealed that October, when the club officially launched and unveiled its crest, designed by Matthew Wolff.[33][35] Early efforts focused on building a strong local identity, including a partnership with Oakland-based lifestyle brand Oaklandish, which produced official merchandise and helped generate community interest.[34] The club also launched creative outreach initiatives such as a radio station and locally themed marketing videos.[34] In spring 2019, the Roots signed their first players, including three Oakland natives—Devante Dubose, Julio Cervantes, and Yohannes Harish—in preparation for their inaugural season.[36][37] The club followed with the addition of several higher-profile players, including San Jose native and former MLS midfielder Benji Joya, Honduran World Cup veteran and former San Jose Earthquakes player Victor Bernardez, and former MLS first-round draft pick Jack McInerney.[38][39][40] On May 9, 2019, the Roots announced Bay Area native and former MLS player and Colorado Rapids technical director Paul Bravo as their first head coach.[41]

National Independent Soccer Association

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The club opened the inaugural 2019–20 NISA season as the league's first game, at home in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 4,500. McInerney would score a first-half perfect hat-trick in a match that would eventually end up in a 3–3 draw.[42]

Oakland Roots played eight games in their inaugural season: six in NISA and two friendlies against Mexican clubs FC Juarez and Atlético Zacatepec. The club picked up their first win at home against Atlético Zacatepec by a score of 2–0.[43]

Oakland Roots sold out all four of their home games in the 2019 fall season averaging 4,927 fans, including a record 5,723 in their final home game, a 1–1 draw vs Los Angeles Force.[44]

Historical chart of the Roots' regular season performance

On October 31, 2019, Oakland Roots and Bravo mutually agreed to part ways.[45] On December 3, 2019, Oakland Roots announced Jordan Ferrell as the club's new head coach.[46]

The Roots opened their second season at home once again in front of a sold-out crowd of 5,603. The match against Chattanooga FC would end in a 1–1 draw when McInerney scored in the 93rd minute of the match after the Roots were forced to play a man down from a first-half red card.[47] The Roots followed this up by winning their first-ever NISA league match the following weekend vs Michigan Stars FC 2–1.[48]

On April 27, 2020, following an extended stoppage of play due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NISA announced the cancellation of the 2020 spring season.[49][50]

In the abridged 2020 fall regular season, Oakland finished first in the three team Western Conference, with Matthew Fondy leading the team with two goals.[51][52] The Roots finished atop its group in the NISA Fall Championship, and beat Chattanooga FC in the national semifinal, before falling to Detroit City FC, 2–1, in the final.[53][54]

USL Championship

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On September 15, 2020, the team announced they would be moving from the third-division NISA to the second-division USL Championship. Initially, in 2017, the USL approved a bid from real estate developer Mark Hall to bring a soccer team to Concord, California, instead of Oakland. The team, called USL East Bay, planned to play in a 15,000+ seat soccer-specific stadium complex before the development idea was scrapped in May 2020. The team's territorial rights were later sold to the Roots. In November 2020, Oakland Roots announced the signing of Oakland born, Richmond, California raised midfielder Saalih Muhammad via a transfer from New Mexico United as the club's first USL Championship player.

The Roots' first Championship season was turbulent on and off the field. Ferrell moved into the technical director role ahead of the move and his assistant Dario Pot was named head coach, but Pot's tenure was brief; Ferrell returned as interim head coach and was confirmed in the role for the remainder of the 2021 season in May 2021.[55][56] The club was set to kick off the USL Championship home season on June 19 against Sacramento Republic FC, but the match was called off due to field issues at Laney College, and further games were called off due to USL health and safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team played multiple home games at Las Positas College and Merritt College before finishing the season back home at Laney, and had just one win through their first 13 games, a run that left them dead last in the USL Power Rankings in August. Oakland then took 34 points from their final 19 games, earning the final Pacific Division playoff position on the last day of the season after a 1–0 win against Sporting Kansas City II. In the playoffs, Oakland upset the Mountain Division champions El Paso Locomotive FC, breaking a 470-day home unbeaten run by the Texas side, before their run ended the following weekend with a 6–5 penalty shootout loss to eventual champions Orange County SC after 120 minutes of scoreless action.

On December 21, 2021, the Roots announced they were leasing the former Oakland Raiders practice facility in Alameda, California as their training facility, and on December 30, 2021, Juan Guerra was announced as the club's fourth head coach. Behind a club-record 19 goals from Icelandic forward Óttar Magnús Karlsson, the 2022 Roots developed a reputation for late comebacks, scoring 18 goals in the final 15 minutes of matches and recovering 16 points from losing positions, the third-highest total in the Championship.[57] In August 2022, with the club ninth in the Western Conference and four points outside the playoff positions, Guerra departed to become head coach of Phoenix Rising FC, a mid-season move to a direct playoff rival that the league described as without precedent in its history.[58] Assistant coach Noah Delgado, a Fremont native who had been on the club's staff since 2021, took over on an interim basis and led a late-season rally into the playoffs. On October 23, 2022, the Roots upset San Diego Loyal SC 3–0 in the first round of the playoffs, before losing 3–0 to eventual champions San Antonio FC in the conference semifinals.

Delgado was given the head coach position permanently ahead of the 2023 season following an extensive search.[59] The club rebuilt with a younger squad following the departure of Karlsson, and played the entirety of the 2023 season at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward after Laney College's new turf system proved incompatible with the modular pitch system used by the Roots. Oakland spent much of the season in the playoff positions, with Johnny Rodriguez scoring a team-high 12 goals, but a disastrous run of form at the end of the season saw the club finish 10th and miss the playoffs.[60] Delgado was dismissed on April 28, 2024, after a 2–5–1 start to the season, and was replaced on an interim basis by his assistant Gavin Glinton.[61] Glinton steadied the team, including a 1–0 home win over Major League Soccer side San Jose Earthquakes in the U.S. Open Cup,[62] and Oakland recovered to finish seventh before losing 2–0 at eventual champions Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC in the conference quarter-finals.[63] Glinton was appointed on a permanent basis in November 2024.[64]

Off the field, the club broadened its ownership into a community ownership model. In April 2021, Oakland native and former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch joined the ownership group. In September 2023, the club launched a community investment round that became the largest equity crowdfunding campaign in American sports at the time; by its close on October 31, 2023, more than 4,000 new owners had invested over $2.4 million into the club.[65] Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong and NBA head coach Jason Kidd were among the notable figures to join the ownership group through the round, and further community investment opportunities followed, including a new round in October 2024.

2025 season

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In 2025, the Roots marked their return to Oakland after playing at five different venues in five years, moving into a 15,000-seat configuration at the Oakland Coliseum.[66] For their home opener against San Antonio FC on March 22, 2025, the club drew a sellout crowd of 26,575—one of the largest regular-season crowds in league history for an active club, and more than quadrupling their previous attendance record—though they lost the match 2–1.[67][68] Average attendance across the 2025 season doubled to approximately 8,000.[69]

On-field results did not match the milestone attendance. Following a difficult start under head coach Gavin Glinton—who posted a 3–1–7 league record before his dismissal on June 2, 2025, following cup defeats in the U.S. Open Cup and Jägermeister Cup—former U.S. international Benny Feilhaber was appointed for the remainder of the season, going 5–7–7.[70][71][72][73][74]

Despite the team's struggles, forward Peter Wilson enjoyed a standout debut season following his January transfer from FK Jerv.[75] Wilson scored 18 goals to win the USL Championship Golden Boot. His campaign was highlighted by scoring in eight consecutive matches, tying the league record, alongside a late surge that yielded 11 goals in his final eight games.[76] Oakland closed out the season on October 25, 2025, with a 3–0 home win over Lexington SC at the Coliseum, with Wilson opening the scoring in the 19th minute.[77] Although Oakland had been mathematically eliminated days prior, the victory denied Lexington a playoff berth by a single point.[78][79]

Feilhaber's contract was not renewed on October 27, 2025, after missing the postseason target.[80][81] Oakland finished 10th in the Western Conference and missed the playoffs.[82] On November 18, 2025, the club named Ryan Martin—who had recently led Loudoun United FC to their first-ever postseason appearance—as head coach ahead of the 2026 season.[83][84]

2026 season

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During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the club's Alameda practice facility served as the base camp of the Australia men's national team. In July 2026, the club announced that it would leave the Coliseum after the conclusion of the 2026 season, citing limitations around event control, matchday flexibility, fan experience and operating costs, and its long-stated position that controlling its own venue is paramount to the club's future.[85]

Oakland Roots SC missed the USL Championship playoffs in 2026.[86] After a difficult July in which the club went winless in league play—losing to New Mexico United, Lexington SC, and Sacramento Republic FC—[87] Oakland suffered only two defeats in their final eleven league matches before the regular-season finale.[87] This stretch included wins at San Antonio FC, Indy Eleven, and FC Tulsa, along with a home win over Phoenix Rising FC.[87] These results kept a playoff berth in reach entering the final match.[88]

In the regular-season finale on October 24, 2026, Oakland played away against Sacramento Republic FC.[89] Sacramento opened the scoring through Alfredo Midence in the 2nd minute.[88] Oakland replied before halftime; Danny Trejo equalized in the 45th minute, and Peter Wilson added a second in first-half stoppage time (45'+) to give the visitors a 2–1 halftime lead.[88][90] Wilson's goal was his 15th in league play that season.[90] Sacramento rallied in the second half, with Lee Desmond scoring in the 81st minute and Kyle Edwards netting the winner in the 90th minute for a 3–2 victory.[88]

The defeat eliminated Oakland from playoff contention.[89] The club finished the 2026 season 10th in the Western Conference with a 9–11–10 record, totaling 38 points with 39 goals for and 40 goals against.[86]

Record

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Overview of Oakland Roots SC seasons
Season League Div. Pos. P W D L GS GA Pts. Playoffs U.S. Open Cup Top goalscorer Manager
Name League
2019–20 NISA Fall, West Coast[a] 4th 6 0 3 3 10 13 3 Did not qualify Cancelled United States Jack McInerney 8 United States Paul Bravo
Spring[b] 1st 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Cancelled United States Jordan Ferrell
2020–21 Fall, Western[c] 1st 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 Runner-up United States Matthew Fondy 2
2021 USL Championship Pacific Division 4th 32 11 8 13 36 41 41 Conf. Semi-Finals Democratic Republic of the Congo Jeremy Bokila 5
2022 Western Conference 7th 34 11 13 10 51 46 46 Conf. Semi-Finals R2 Iceland Óttar Magnús Karlsson 19 Venezuela Juan Guerra (6–12–7)
Puerto Rico Noah Delgado (5–1–3)
2023 10th 34 11 9 14 45 48 42 Did not qualify R3 United States Johnny Rodriguez 12 Puerto Rico Noah Delgado
2024 7th 34 13 5 16 37 57 44 Conf. Quarter-Finals Ro32 United States Johnny Rodriguez 12 Puerto Rico Noah Delgado (2–1–5)
Turks and Caicos Islands Gavin Glinton (11–4–11)
2025 10th 30 8 8 14 42 52 32 Did not qualify R3 LiberiaPeter Wilson 18 Turks and Caicos Islands Gavin Glinton (3–1–7)
United States Benny Feilhaber (5–7–7)
2026 10th 30 9 11 10 39 40 38 Did not qualify Did not qualify LiberiaPeter Wilson 15 United States Ryan Martin
Total - 204 65 59 80 266 300 254 -
  1. ↑ The Fall 2019 NISA season had eight teams split into two separate conferences, East Coast and West Coast
  2. ↑ Spring season cancelled before completion
  3. ↑ The Fall 2020 NISA season had eight teams split into two separate conferences, Eastern and Western

Stadium

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Oakland Coliseum during halftime of a match between the Roots and Orange County SC in August 2026.

Roots home matches were played at Laney College Football Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium located near Lake Merritt, from their inauguration through the 2022 season. For Roots games the pitch was widened using a modular turf system. The stadium had room for 3,500 seated and up to 5,500+ with standing room.[91]

In 2023, Laney College installed a new turf system which proved incompatible with the modular system used by the Roots. This led the club to shift home matches to Pioneer Stadium on the campus of CSU East Bay for the entirety of the 2023 season.[92]

The Roots currently play at the Oakland Coliseum,[93] following the Athletics move to Sacramento's Sutter Health Park in preparation of a move to Las Vegas.[94][95] The club has covered the baseball diamond with grass, allowing for a full regulation-sized pitch to be installed following along the former third base line.[96] Although the club typically only sells seats in the lower-level bowl, for matches with high-attendance, the second deck is also opened up to allow for a higher seating capacity.

On March 22, 2025, the Roots had an attendance of over 26,000 facing against San Antonio FC.[97]

In January 2026, the Roots and Industrial Reality Group were announced by the Port of Oakland as being the "finalists" for a proposal to redevelop Howard Terminal, which previously was the proposed site of the scrapped Oakland Ballpark project. The proposal included plans for a temporary, 15,000-seat "modular stadium" and a permanent, 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium.[98][99][100]

In July 2026, the Roots announced that they would be leaving the Coliseum after the conclusion of the 2026 season.[101]

Average attendance

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Attendance at Oakland Roots SC games by season
Year Reg. Season
2019 Fall 4,927
2020 Spring 5,193
2020 Fall N/A
2021 4,344*
2022 4,664
2023 3,894
2024 4,018
2025 8,375[102]
2026 5,904[102]
  • For games at Laney and Merritt only

Club culture

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The club was founded in 2018 with the stated vision of becoming the United States' first purpose-driven professional sports team, taking inspiration from clubs such as Germany's FC St. Pauli, and adopted "Oakland First, Always" as its guiding principle.[103][104]

Its crest, designed by Matthew Wolff, is centered on the oak tree that has long served as a symbol of Oakland; a white outline within the tree traces the map of the city, representing light shining through it, and the tree's roots run into a multicolored mosaic representing the diversity of Oakland.[104][105] The crest became one of the most identifiable in American soccer and has been taken up as a symbol of civic pride well beyond the club's supporters; when Oakland native Damian Lillard wore a Roots shirt at a press conference during the 2019 NBA playoffs, the moment was credited with bringing the club's brand to a national audience.[104][106]

Matchdays have drawn on Oakland's arts and music culture since the club's first seasons. At Laney College, home matches featured a block party on East 10th Street and a pregame concert, and the stadium's sections carried local names such as the Mosaic and the Sideshow, the latter a nod to the city's car culture.[104] Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B performed before the club's final home game of 2019.[91]

Local artists have remained part of the presentation at the Coliseum: co-owner E-40 performed at halftime of the club's 2026 home opener, a 2–1 win over New Mexico United played before about 14,500 spectators, the second-largest crowd in club history,[107] and the club's final match at the Coliseum, on October 10, 2026, was staged as a farewell celebration, closing with a performance by newly announced co-owner Goapele, a halftime fashion show spotlighting Oakland designers and post-match fireworks before 9,718 spectators.[108][109] In September 2025, the club released a third kit designed in collaboration with Oakland Latin hip hop duo Los Rakas in celebration of Latin and Hispanic heritage, debuted at its Conoce Tus Raíces Night.[110]

The club partners with local non-profit organizations as part of a community outreach effort.[111] In June 2020, the Roots became the first professional soccer club in the United States to join the Common Goal movement, pledging one percent of player and staff salaries and one percent of all ticket revenue to support non-profit organizations that use soccer to address social issues.[112] Later that year the club staged the Justice Match, an exhibition in which Roots players lined up in mixed teams alongside women's professional players to advance discussion of racial and gender equity,[113] and collaborated with FC St. Pauli on a "Justice First, Always" shirt, with 5.10 percent of proceeds donated to the Oakland Roots Justice Fund.[103]

The Roots were founded as Oakland's established franchises were leaving the city — the Golden State Warriors moved to San Francisco in 2019, the Raiders to Las Vegas in 2020, and the Athletics departed after the 2024 season — and the club has frequently been framed as a rallying point for Oakland in their absence.[109] Its move to the Coliseum in 2025 opened with a club-record crowd of 26,575, although regular attendances later settled well below that figure.[109]

Roots Justice Fund

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The club created the Oakland Roots Justice Fund in 2020 as a charitable fund to support causes at the intersection of racial and gender justice.[114] Administered with guidance from the East Bay Community Foundation, the fund began making grants late in 2020, including a $10,000 grant to the Radical Monarchs, an Oakland organization that works with young girls and gender-expansive youth of color.[115] The club's 2021 end-of-season celebration raised further money for the fund through a raffle and silent auction, supporting causes including Common Goal's Anti-Racist Project.[116]

Oakland Roots Supporters Section in late August 2026

Supporters

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The club's supporters groups are La Brigada Del Pueblo, Oakland 68s, Homegrown Hooligans, Forever Oakland, Los Roots, and Komandos Verdé.[117] Three of the groups — Homegrown Hooligans, Forever Oakland, and Los Roots — also form an umbrella group, La Union 1852.[118]

The Oakland 68s were founded in 2017 by fans from the Oakland Athletics' right-field bleachers, their name marking the Athletics' first season in Oakland in 1968.[119][120] Known for their drumming, they brought their support to the Roots as well, and now also back the city's other teams, including Soul and the Oakland Ballers. Forever Oakland likewise started among Oakland Raiders fans working to keep the city's teams in Oakland;[121] its leader, Griz Jones, publicly rebuffed Raiders owner Mark Davis at the 2017 meeting in Phoenix where the club's relocation to Las Vegas was approved.[122]

The groups' work extends beyond matchdays: the league has highlighted their collaboration with local organizations serving underserved communities in Oakland.[123] In 2021, the Oakland 68s, La Brigada Del Pueblo, and Homegrown Hooligans jointly established the Oak Branch Award, honoring the player who best represented the club on and off the field; midfielder Emilio Díaz was voted its winner that year.[124]

Additionally, the club participates in the NorCal Hella Cup, an unofficial annual in-season tournament created by regional supporters groups—Sacramento's Tower Bridge Battalion, Oakland's Los Roots, and Monterey Bay's Rising Tide—with regular-season matches between the three clubs deciding the winner.[125][126][127] Sacramento Republic FC claimed the Hella Cup for the second consecutive year following a 3–2 victory over Oakland in the October 24, 2026, regular-season finale.[128]

Associated teams

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Project 51O

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The Oakland Roots reserve team, Project 51O, was launched on December 9, 2019.[129] Originally set to compete in the National Premier Soccer League for the 2020 season, the team only played one match, a win over Napa Valley 1839 FC, before the season was halted and eventually cancelled due to COVID-19.[130][131]

On September 17, 2020, the team announced it would compete in USL League Two beginning with the 2021 season.[132] They eventually would forgo the season and start play in 2022.

Oakland Soul SC

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On May 24, 2022, Oakland Roots SC launched their women's team, Oakland Soul, to play in the USL W League beginning in the 2023 season.[133] Soul remain in the USL W League, playing their home matches at Merritt College. The club intends to elevate Soul to the first-division USL Super League once it secures a permanent stadium that it controls year-round.[134] The interim stadium the club had planned for the Coliseum's Malibu Lot was abandoned in January 2025, as the club committed to the Coliseum as a short-term home;[135] it has since been selected by the Port of Oakland to negotiate an agreement for a permanent venue at Howard Terminal, which the club says would allow Soul's elevation to the Super League.[134]

Sponsorship

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Season Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
2019–2020 Nike Oaklandish
2021–2022 Puma Anthem Blue Cross[136][137]
2023 Meyba
2024– Charly

Players and staff

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Current roster

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As of November 10, 2026

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  USA Kendall McIntosh
2 MF  BRA Bruno Lapa
4 MF  USA Tommy McCabe
5 DF  ESP David Garcia
6 MF  UGA Bobosi Byaruhanga
7 FW  USA Wolfgang Prentice
8 MF  USA Ali Elmasnaouy
9 FW  LBR Peter Wilson
10 MF  FRA Florian Valot
11 DF  ESP Jesus De Vincente
12 MF  USA Tyler Gibson
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF  TTO Neveal Hackshaw
17 DF  USA Keegan Tingey
19 FW  USA Jackson Kiil
20 MF  CAN Mark Fisher
23 DF  USA Julian Bravo
27 FW  FRA Bertin Jacquesson
33 GK  SUI Raphael Spiegel
34 DF  USA Michael Edwards
59 MF  SRB Luka Rosić
77 MF  ENG Faysal Bettache
99 FW  MEX Danny Trejo

Retired numbers

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Staff

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As of January 13, 2026[138][139]

Senior management
President United States Lindsay Barenz
Vice president of soccer Eric Yamamoto
General manager Dustin Cleaver
Director of soccer Canada Nana Attakora
Coaching staff
Head coach United States Ryan Martin
First assistant coach United States Jeremy Clark
Second assistant coach David Cordova Marroquin
Goalkeeping coach Sergio Valle

Coaching records

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As of October 28, 2026
Oakland Roots SC coaching records
Name Nat. From To P W D L GS GA %W Honors Notes
Paul Bravo  United States May 9, 2019[140] October 31, 2019[141] 60331013000.00
Jordan Ferrell  United States December 3, 2019[142] November 16, 2020 9522159055.56 2020 Fall NISA Western Conference Champion
Dario Pot  Croatia November 16, 2020[143] April 25, 2021[144] 000000!—
Jordan Ferrell  United States April 25, 2021 December 30, 2021[145] 34129133741035.29
Juan Guerra  Venezuela December 30, 2021[145] August 18, 2022[146] 2661283838023.08
Noah Delgado (interim)  United States August 18, 2022[146] November 30, 2022 116141613054.55
Noah Delgado  United States December 1, 2022[147] April 28, 2024 451510205765033.33
Gavin Glinton (interim)  Turks and Caicos Islands April 28, 2024[148] November 12, 2024 28114133046039.29
Gavin Glinton  Turks and Caicos Islands November 12, 2024[149] June 2, 2025[150] 123181424025.00
Benny Feilhaber  United States June 2, 2025[151] October 25, 2025 195772930026.32
Ryan Martin  United States November 18, 2025[152] present 30911103940030.00

Honors

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League

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National Independent Soccer Association

  • Western Conference
    • Champion (1): 2020

Team Awards

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References

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