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Year One: A Tremendous Season for Pareja’s Lions

When Head Coach Oscar Pareja arrived in Orlando in December 2019, it’s safe to say that nobody could have predicted all that would happen in his first year at the helm.

In a season unlike any other, Pareja and his staff led the Lions to their most successful campaign in Major League Soccer, earning the Club’s first postseason berth in its six-year history.

Following a run to the final of the MLS is Back Tournament, the Lions would go on to finish the condensed regular season with an 11-4-8 record, posting a Club-best 1.78 points per game and setting records on both sides of the ball with 1.