Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Former teams=== [[Philadelphia Union II|Bethlehem Steel FC]], a [[United Soccer League]] team founded in 2015, played at [[Goodman Stadium]] at [[Lehigh University]], until 2019, when it moved to [[Subaru Park]] in [[Chester, Pennsylvania]] after concerns about Goodman Stadium's lighting deficiencies went unaddressed.<ref>[https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2019/12/bye-bye-bethlehem-minor-league-soccer-team-drops-bethlehem-steel-fc-name.html "Bye, bye Bethlehem,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815134522/https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2019/12/bye-bye-bethlehem-minor-league-soccer-team-drops-bethlehem-steel-fc-name.html |date=August 15, 2022 }} Lehigh Valley Live, December 12, 2019</ref> The [[Lehigh Valley Steelhawks]], a former [[Professional Indoor Football League]], played home games at [[Stabler Arena]] in Bethlehem until they moved to [[Allentown, Pennsylvania|Allentown]] in 2014. From 1996 to 2012, the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] of the [[National Football League]] held pre-season training camp each summer at the football facilities of Bethlehem's [[Lehigh University]].<ref>[https://www.mcall.com/2013/03/15/no-more-training-camp-at-lehigh-university-for-birds/ "No more training camp at Lehigh University for Birds"], By Nick Fierro, March 15, 2013.</ref> In the early part of the 20th century, Bethlehem had a corporate soccer team, the [[Bethlehem Steel F.C. (1907β1930)|Bethlehem Steel F.C.]], which won the 1918β19 championship in the National Association Football League (NAFL), and then won what amounted to national championships three more times during the next decade (1920β21 in the NAFL; 1926β27 in the American Soccer League I; and in 1928β29 winning the EPSL II). The Bethlehem Steel sides consisted largely of British imported players and also had the distinction of being the first American professional soccer team to play in Europe, which it did during its tour of [[Sweden]] in 1919. The team also won the National Challenge Cup, now called the [[Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup]] after billionaire sports franchise owner [[Lamar Hunt]], five times beginning in 1915, and for the last time in 1926.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
(section)
Add topic