The Swope Park Rangers, Sporting Kansas City’s USL Championship side, have been one of the most successful teams in league history in their brief time in the league. They started off their first two USL seasons by going all the way to USL Cup. Despite that, The Athletic is reporting that MLS owned clubs may be forced to drop a league.
The Rangers currently play in the USL Championship. It’s the official second division of the US Soccer Pyramid and is placed firmly beneath Major League Soccer in the pecking order. As of 2019, the USL has added a third division league, USL League One, which now sits in between the USL Championship (formerly just the USL) and USL League Two (formerly the USL Premier Development League).