The Tampa Bay Rowdies are an American professional soccer team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The club was founded in 2008 and first took the pitch in 2010. Since 2017, the Rowdies have been members of the USL Championship in the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. They formerly played in USSF Division 2 and the North American Soccer League (NASL), which were also second-tier leagues. The Rowdies play their home games at Al Lang Stadium on St. Petersburg's downtown waterfront.
Tampa Bay taking the field in St. Louis, 2010
Dan Antoniuk and Tsuyoshi Yoshitake, 2012
Georgi Hristov playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies against Jacksonville Armada FC on April 25, 2015.
Al Lang Stadium showing soccer arrangement since 2015
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the most populous city in the state that is not a county seat. It is the second-most populous city in the Tampa Bay area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Florida with a population of around 2.8 million.
St. Petersburg Skyline
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Image: St. Pete Pier East
