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Rangers find out conference and playoff format

Swope Park Rangers and the rest of the league fin out which conference they are in

The United Soccer League announced the alignment, regular season and playoff format for the 2016 USL Season today. The 30-game regular season league schedule is supposed to be released Tuesday, January 26th at noon. The season is supposed to begin March 25th and complete on September 25th.

There will be 29 teams in USL for the 2016 season with 14 teams in the Eastern Conference and 15 teams in the Western Conference.

Swope Park Rangers, Sporting Kansas City's USL team, is one of six new teams in the USL for 2016.