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USL Preview: New name, new outlook for Penn FC

In what would be their last season under that name, the Harrisburg City Islanders only managed to secure 37 points from 32 matches, which left them in eleventh place in the USL Eastern Conference. Despite all of their troubles, if Harrisburg had gotten just 8 more points last season they would have been the 7 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. So now the question becomes, after a historic off-season for the newly christened Penn FC, have they done enough to get themselves back in the playoffs for the first time since 2014?

Let’s break it down according to the familiar wedding rhyme.