Other than Monterey Bay, who were given the daunting task of facing Phoenix Rising in their first ever game, the Legion probably had the toughest task in the USL Championship this weekend: defending t...
UPDATE: reports out of Tulsa indicate that Rodrigo da Costa’s red card has been rescinded. That should make for a more competitive match, but the Legion should still emerge as the winners. The 2...
There were a few upsets this week, most notably Loudoun United beating Indy Eleven, but a lot of the games went according to form. The two newbies both lost, but weren’t utterly outplayed. Overa...
In a new feature for the Forge, this season we are going to look at each player individually after every game and rate them on their performance. Ratings will be on a 1-10 scale, 10 being the best. Pa...
Come Sunday, it will have been exactly 4 months since the Birmingham Legion last played a meaningful game. Seems like forever. But the wait is over, and the 2022 USL Championship season is about to st...
Sorry, Freddy. Just had to do that. As picked up on Instagram yesterday, Freddy Kleemann was spotted hanging out with Khano Smith and members of the team at a Birmingham movie theater after watching T...
Well, we’re back from our Caribbean scouting tour. We didn’t find any new soccer phenoms for the Legion to snatch up, but if anyone in Birmingham wants to start a pro cricket team we have ...
Just a quick note for all our readers: the Football Forge will be entirely silent for the next week or so. We will be doing our own preseason preparations by cruising the Caribbean and will be complet...
FC Birmingham, which played in the Pioneer Premier League this past fall, has moved to the UPSL for the 2022 spring season. There is little information available on this change, although I believe it ...
Tuesday afternoon Birmingham City failed to get any points from a game they could not afford to lose against a team teetering above the relegation zone. The Blues got off to a frenetic start with a cl...