Today it was announced that the Birmingham Legion’s first US Open Cup match since 2019 (the tournament was cancelled the past two years) will be played at the University of Alabama Soccer Stadiu...
When it comes down to it, there are basically two reasons the Legion lost this game: Sean Lewis and Matt van Oekel. Both are fairly obvious. Lewis had a monster game. He made 5 saves in the game (afte...
The world’s leagues are stopping for the international break as everyone is chasing World Cup spots. That doesn’t mean spit to the USL Championship, though, which actually has a large slat...
To say this game didn’t go as planned is something of an understatement. The final score was hardly reflective of the overall play in the game – which we will take a closer look at in this wee...
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UPDATE: reports out of Tulsa indicate that Rodrigo da Costa’s red card has been rescinded.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...
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...
It certainly would have been nice to get some kind of result on the score sheet – and yours truly had rather expected it – but overall the first full game of 2022 was a success. The score ...