The United Premier Soccer League announced Friday the addition of the African Stars FC. The new team will be based in Salt Lake City and play in the UPSL’s Mountain Conference.
“We are very pleased to welcome African Stars Football Club to the UPSL Mountain Conference,” UPSL national director Matt Khala said in a news release. “Diversity of club ownership is one of the strengths of the UPSL, and to have a club that has come together to represent their heritage is a movement we will always support.”
The move makes the Stars, founded in 2017, the “first nationally-sanctioned African-immigrant owned and operated Pro Development club in Salt Lake City,” per the release.