It was January 17th, 2007 coincidentally the 301st anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birthday a supporter group was founded in the city of brotherly love. The group called themselves the Sons of Ben. That group worked hard to drive up support to bring an MLS team to the region. Within a year the group had over 1000 members.
About 13 months later MLS’ commissioner Don Garber was in Philly area to announce that the region was getting an expansion team. Two years after the announcement the Union became the leagues 16th team. Since then the boys in blue have had some up and downs, more recently we have seen the strongest teams over the last few years in franchise history.