Its start pushed back by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Charlotte’s MLS expansion team is nevertheless forging ahead, and on Wednesday morning, it unveiled a name and logo that’ll help it blend right in once it takes the field in 2022.
Charlotte FC is the name, thus continuing the trend of generic club monikers that’s taken hold across the league over the past decade-plus. It’s now the eighth MLS team to follow the “City FC/SC” formula, and that’s in addition to the three Uniteds (SC likely was a nonstarter for Charlotte because of its proximity to South Carolina).