A third American soccer league season has been swept away by the coronavirus pandemic. The USL announced Thursday afternoon that League Two, the 82-team developmental circuit that occupies the de facto fourth tier of the domestic soccer pyramid, won’t play its 2020 campaign. The league has been in operation, in one iteration or another, since 1989.
League Two joins the other half of the fourth tier, the NPSL, and third-division NISA, in calling off its seasons (NISA intends to play a fall-to-spring schedule and still plans on starting its 2020-21 season). A significant number of League Two and NPSL players are in college, so must return to campus in August.