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The Richmond Kickers will head to Knoxville this Friday for the season's first matchup with defending league champions, One Knoxville.Despite Richmond's overall poor finish in 2025, that squad did surprisingly well in two of the three times they f…

The Richmond Kickers will open their home schedule this Saturday, facing FC Naples at City Stadium. Like last week's opponents, AV Alta FC, the southwest Florida club is in its second year. However, unlike AV Alta, FC Naples finished fourth in its i…

The Richmond Kickers unveiled the club's 2026 primary kit to the public today, called The Crossing Kit.The red and white shirt contains a silhouette of triangles, representing Richmond's unique landmark of rail infrastructure, the Richmond Triple …

The Richmond Kickers shocked the league today, announcing the signing of Lucca Dourado from the South Georgia Tormenta free agent pool.The 25 year old striker was one of the marquee signings for Tormenta prior to the club suddenly going on hiatus …

The Richmond Kickers will jump into the 2026 season on the road, facing AV Alta FC on Saturday, March 7th. The Lancaster, CA based club is in its second year, coming off a season in which it missed the playoffs by a single point.Last year, the Kic…

While it’s only February, Griffin Garnett is already having one heck of a year. In January, Garnett was selected by U.S. Soccer for its U-20, U-19 and U-18 Men’s National training camp. Then, less than a month later, th…

Since 2020, Richmond Kickers have been led by head coach and sporting director Darren Sawatzky. In that time, he’s won a regular season title, overseen nearly 190 roster moves, and watched attendance surge at City Stadium while pacing the…

The Richmond Kickers announced two new signings this week, midfielder Ryan Baer and defender Marcelo Lage.Baer joins on loan from the Seattle Sounders, where he was the club’s 2025 first round pick in the MLS SuperDraft. He had been assigned…

The Richmond Kickers have started the 2025 season off in a manner that feels almost like feast or famine. After ten matches this season, The Roos have one of the more prominent attacks in USL, scoring 17 goals (19 in all comps), having multiple play…

In 2024, the Richmond Ivy ended its first season by accomplishing every goal it set for itself, except making a playoff appearance. Last season, the Ivy finished with 6 wins, 1 draw, and 5 losses, earning 1.58 points per game. Off the field, the Ivy…

 The 2025 season is only days away from kicking off and Da Roos will be on the road for the first two games to kick off the season. Whenever the schedule drops, most Richmond Kickers fans first look to see when the First Henny Derby is, then …

Darwin Espinal has scored a lot of goals over the last three seasons: 34 in 60 league matches while playing with NISA powerhouse club Maryland Bobcats.There had been some offers to make the jump to the USL, but after each of the first two seasons,…

On Wednesday, The Richmond Kickers announced their first off-season signing: Rivendi Melvin Pierre-Louis.Little was known about the 24 year old Haitian winger outside of Richmond’s announcement. He didn’t even have a profile on Transfe…

So there has been a lot of chat online about who Richmond will travel to for the playoffs. If you were to ask fans they would tell you that they prefer Union Omaha (who recently clinched the player's shield against Tormenta to get Richmond into the …

The Ivy, Richmond's pre-professional women’s soccer team here! What is W League, the league the team will participate in?Semi-professional and amateur women’s soccer actually preceded the fully professional game in the US. The first …

On Tuesday, April 2nd, the Kickers will host a second round US Open Cup match against the Maryland Bobcats of the National Independent Soccer Association. This will be the second match of the tournament for both clubs; the Kickers defeated Christos …

On March 4th, the Richmond Kickers announced who they had been drawn against for the 2024 edition of the US Open Cup. With all the chaos surrounding this year’s Cup, it is a minor miracle that they even got games on the field. But all the boar…

The offseason for the Richmond Kickers and USL has already started with major moves and shake-ups. Usually in the Off-season for Lower League clubs, the news can be slow and If you are not following some details can be left behind. We decided to bri…

We sit here a few days after North Carolina FC gained “promotion” to the USL Championship by winning the league title in penalty kicks vs Charlotte Independence.  We turn our attention to the offseason and the feeling of “we g…

With the season coming to an end and playoffs out of sight, we got a chance to sit down with Head Coach Darren Sawatzky about team focus on youth, roster building, and how he views this season.  EB- Of course, the season hasn’t l…

The 2022-2023 Richmond are starting to hit their groove and a large part of that is the role Justin Sukow is playing in the midfield. With the departure of Ethan Bryant to Sporting Kansas City, a lot of Richmond Kickers supporters were wondering &ld…

On April 6th, the latest round of the US Open Cup will take place. The Richmond Kickers will take on Cleveland SC. Cleveland SC plays in the Rust Belt Conference of the NPSL where they finished 1st in their division and made it to the Regional Final…

15- Tony WilliamsThere’s something about one club players. As a fan, you can start to convince yourself that, no matter what, they’re really there for the town and it’s not just that’s where their first job happened to be. …

16- Peter LuzakWe’ve been on a bit of a defense streak in the countdown, and that continues with our next entry.  A standout for six seasons at the start of the new millennium, Peter Luzak provided a physical presence on the backline fo…