Soccer: Fuego announce 2016 PDL schedule
The Fresno Fuego will play a 14-match schedule for the upcoming Premier Development League season and has been placed in a new division as well after a league-wide realignment.
The Fuego has been moved from the Southwest Division into the new Central Pacific Division, one of three divisions in the Western Conference. The division includes Burlingame FC, BYU Cougars, Las Vegas Mobsters and new league addition San Francisco City FC.
The season kicks off May 6 when the Fuego hosts defending Southwest Division champ Burlingame FC at Chukchansi Park – the first of five consecutive matches at home to start the season. The club will play at Chukchansi Park four times in May, twice in June and once in July.
All home matches are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Season-ticket packages start at $30 for children and $50 for adults. All season ticket holders receive guaranteed game-day giveaways, a scarf and custom Fuego pint glass, a 10 percent discount at the team store, and entry into all Fresno Freeze (WPSL) home games, as well as additional discounts and early-purchase options for soccer exhibitions at Chukchansi Park.
The Fuego and new head coach Sean Lanigan, whose first official day as the club’s full-time coach and assistant general manager is Wednesday, get the ball rolling later this month with a preseason exhibition against Armenia’s FC Ararat Yerevan at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Chukchansi Park.
The club’s preseason schedule also features home matches against New York Cosmos FC on Feb. 26, Sacramento Republic FC on March 3 and a team still to be announced on March 24, ahead of the Liga MX exhibition between León and Atlas.
Angel Moreno: 559-441-6401, @anhelllll
2016 Fresno Fuego schedule
All home matches to be played at Chukchansi Park
Date | Opponent | Time |
Feb. 18 | vs. FC Ararat Yerevan (Armenia)^ | 6:30 p.m. |
Feb. 24 | vs. New York Cosmos (NASL)^ | 6:30 p.m. |
March 3 | vs. Sacramento Republic FC (USL)^# | 6:30 p.m. |
March 24 | vs. TBA^ | 5 p.m. |
May 6 | vs. Burlingame Dragons FC* | 7:30 p.m. |
May 14 | vs. San Francisco City FC* | 7:30 p.m. |
May 19 | vs. Las Vegas Mobsters* | 7:30 p.m. |
May 21 | vs. Las Vegas Mobsters* | 7:30 p.m. |
June 2 | vs. Burlingame Dragons FC* | 7:30 p.m. |
June 4 | at Southern California Seahorses | 7 p.m. |
June 9 | at BYU Cougars* | 6:30 p.m. |
June 11 | at BYU Cougars* | 6:30 p.m. |
June 18 | at Las Vegas Mobsters* | 7:30 p.m. |
June 25 | at San Diego Zest FC | 6 p.m. |
June 30 | vs. BYU Cougars* | 7:30 p.m. |
July 2 | vs. Southern California Seahorses | 7:30 p.m. |
July 8 | at Burlingame Dragons FC* | 7 p.m. |
July 10 | at San Francisco City FC* | 6 p.m. |
^preseason exhibition; #Highway 99 Derby; *Central Pacific Division opponent
This story was originally published February 2, 2016 at 6:50 PM with the headline "Soccer: Fuego announce 2016 PDL schedule."