Compass Football Podcasts

Jason and Nipun are back for 2019 with a special mailbag edition of Lower League America. USL, NPSL, NISA, contracts, lawsuits, and more.

Can the success of FC Cincinnati be recreated? This week, Jason Davis and Nipun Chopra are joined by former FCC communications director D.J. Switzer to consider how the club got to be so successful and whether their success can be repeated in other cities.

The debut of Compass Football's new show, Football Business Today, covers a range of topics with host Jason Davis and contributor Aaron De Los Reyes. EURO 2024, FIFA changes to loan rules, a new club in Italy for the Berlusconi family, Qatari investment in world football, Spain snagging new sponsorship from Unilever, and esports in the Bundesliga.

This week, Jason Davis and Nipun Chopra consider the big question facing an NPSL phenomenon. Should American soccer's greatest grass roots success story go professional? Jason and Nipun also cover the news around the lower divisions and spend some time on the USL regular season.

This week Lower League America takes on one of the biggest subjects in American soccer history: The New York Cosmos. From their days as the first massive club in America to their modern existence as an agent of chaos, the Cosmos are one of the most fascinating stories in American soccer.

Jason Davis and Nipun Chopra break good the good, bad, and ugly of the modern professional soccer enterprise known as the USL. Rapid growth and increasing profits don't tell the whole story.

Episode 3 of Lower League America covers the story of the new NASL—a league that emerged from a soccer war in the second division, burned brightly for a time, then collapsed amidst defections and (they say) collusion.

A look at the shifting sands of soccer in the small market of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The NPSL's Chattanooga FC will have to face down a challenge for fans from the USL Division 3 team led by Chattanooga FC's former general manager.

In the first episode of Lower League America, Jason Davis and Nipun Chopra breakdown the structure of lower league soccer in the United States.

An introduction to Compass Football podcasts.