Las Vegas Lights

Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas Lights fans celebrate as time runs out for the Tacoma Defiance during the Lights FC home opener at Cashman Field Saturday June 5, 2021. The Lights shut out the Defiance 2-0.

New Las Vegas Lights coach familiar with developing younger talent

Jan 29, 2024 (1:12 p.m.)

By Ray Brewer

The Las Vegas Lights will be coached in the upcoming United Soccer League season by Dennis Sanchez, who last season was an assistant with Austin FC II.

New owner Jose Bautista wants to build winner with Las Vegas Lights

January 16, 2024

By Ray Brewer

Retired baseball slugger Jose Bautista is the primary investor in an ownership group purchasing the Las Vegas Lights. Bautista, who clubbed 344 home runs in ...
Lights grab win in San Diego, continue to climb standings

June 19, 2022

By Ray Brewer

The Lights (6-4-6) moved into eighth place in the Western Conference standings of the United Soccer League with 22 points, which also surpassed ...
Homegrown soccer standout Danny Musovski living the dream in Las Vegas

September 4, 2021

By Justin Emerson

Danny Musovski has possibly the best Plan B in professional soccer. He’s under contract with Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer, but because he isn’t always in the squad’s matchday plans, frequently put on a bus for the four-plus-hour trek to Cashman Field ...
Fans create festive home field edge for Las Vegas Lights

June 6, 2021

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

The 43-year-old grew up supporting Club Deportivo Águila in his native El Salvador, and still follows them religiously. But he’s also a diehard Lights fans.
A new era for the Lights FC, but a familiar fiesta for fans

June 4, 2021

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

New Las Vegas Lights coach Steve Cherundolo has vast experience in the soccer universe, playing professionally for the German club Hannover for 17 seasons and suiting up for the U.S. national team in the World Cup. Yet, chances are the game-day environment ...
Las Vegas Lights to be affiliated with LAFC; season coming in May

March 12, 2021

By Ray Brewer

Partnering with LAFC will significantly upgrade the on-the-field product for the Lights, which in two seasons have struggled with consistency and not reached the playoffs.
Lights FC name MLS veteran Frank Yallop interim coach for 2020

June 29, 2020

By Justin Emerson

When the Las Vegas Lights FC restart the season, it will do so with a new interim coach. The Lights announced today that they have hired two-time MLS championship-winning coach Frank Yallop to lead the team through the ...
Eric Wynalda is no longer coach of Las Vegas Lights

June 17, 2020

By Justin Emerson

Eric Wynalda is out as coach of the Las Vegas Lights. The surprise announcement came Wednesday and the team did not offer any explanation. Wynalda coached one season with Las Vegas, guiding the Lights to an 11-15-8 record.
Season will return in July for Las Vegas Lights

June 4, 2020

By Justin Emerson

The United Soccer League’s board voted Thursday to return for the 2020 season with a tentative start date of July 11.
Las Vegas soccer team to host ‘Midnight Match’

February 26, 2020

By Ray Brewer

The Las Vegas Lights soccer franchise is always eager to try wacky promotions. They, after all, have llamas on the field for the pregame festivities.
Lights FC captain Bryan De La Fuente fights his way back onto the pitch

September 2, 2019

By Justin Emerson

There was a moment during the most recent Lights FC home game that was impossible to overlook but perhaps easy to underestimate ...
Hosting inaugural Leagues Cup final elevates profile of Las Vegas in soccer world

July 12, 2019

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

Being the most accomplished footballer to kick-start his international career in Las Vegas, Herculez Gomez can speak with authority about soccer’s “rich history” in the valley. So, Gomez — standing behind a podium at the Bellagio — began to rattle off ...
Las Vegas has the ‘ingredients necessary to support an MLS team’

June 10, 2019

By Justin Emerson

Las Vegas has become a landing spot for professional sports development in the past two years with unprecedented investment in new teams and facilities ...
MLS to Las Vegas? The process of luring a top soccer league

June 6, 2019

By Justin Emerson

MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in April that Las Vegas will be one of the cities considered, but so are Charlotte, Detroit and Phoenix. Once Renaissance and the city agree to a plan for a stadium, they will submit a bid ...

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