2000 PDL Season

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The 2000 USL Premier Development League season was the 6th PDL season. The season began in April 2000 and ended in August 2000.

Chicago Sockers finished the season as national champions, beating Mid-Michigan Bucks 1-0 in the PDL Championship game. Westchester Flames had finished with the best regular season record in the league, winning 15 out of their 18 games, suffering just three losses, and finishing with a +26 goal difference.

Contents 1 Standings 1.1 Central Conference 1.1.1 Great Lakes Division 1.1.2 Heartland Division 1.1.3 Provisional Teams 1.2 Eastern Conference 1.2.1 Northeast Division 1.2.2 Southeast Division 1.3 Western Conference 1.3.1 Rocky Mountain Division 1.3.2 Northwest Division 1.3.3 Southwest Division 2 Playoffs 2.1 Conference Semi-Finals 2.2 Conference Finals 2.3 National Semi-Finals 2.4 Third Place Game 2.5 PDL Championship Game

[edit] Standings

[edit] Central Conference

[edit] Great Lakes Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Mid-Michigan Bucks	18	14	3	1	64	21	+43	14	71
2	Dayton Gems	18	9	8	1	37	35	+2	7	44
3	Kalamazoo Kingdom	18	9	9	0	37	37	=	7	43
4	West Michigan Edge	18	9	9	0	32	38	-6	7	43
5	Indiana Invaders	18	8	10	0	35	43	-8	5	37
6	Lexington Bluegrass Bandits	18	5	13	0	26	47	-21	5	25

[edit] Heartland Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Chicago Sockers	18	13	5	0	45	17	+28	10	62
2	Rockford Raptors	18	9	7	2	38	35	+3	8	46
3	Des Moines Menace	19	10	8	0	63	28	+35	5	45
4	Wisconsin Rebels	18	9	8	1	34	25	+9	6	43
5	Twin Cities Tornado	18	7	9	2	26	33	-7	2	32
6	Thunder Bay Chill	18	4	13	1	20	49	-29	2	19

[edit] Provisional Teams

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Louisiana Outlaws *	12	5	5	2	25	25	=	5	27
2	Alabama Saints *	7	1	4	2	6	14	-8	1	7
3	Central Jersey Riptide *	10	1	9	0	10	31	-21	1	5

[edit] Eastern Conference

[edit] Northeast Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Westchester Flames	18	15	3	0	47	21	+26	10	70
2	Vermont Voltage	18	11	6	1	37	22	+15	8	53
3	New York Freedom	18	10	7	1	45	24	+21	8	49
4	Brooklyn Knights	18	9	8	1	30	32	-2	4	41
5	North Jersey Imperials	18	7	11	0	38	49	-11	6	34
6	New Brunswick Brigade	18	2	15	1	22	56	-34	1	10

[edit] Southeast Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Tampa Bay Hawks	18	12	5	1	52	35	+17	9	58
2	Bradenton Academics	18	11	6	1	43	27	+16	8	53
3	Cocoa Expos	18	11	6	1	38	27	+11	6	51
4	Central Florida Kraze	18	10	6	2	46	34	+12	8	50
5	Palm Beach Pumas	18	8	8	2	39	43	-4	7	41
6	South Florida Future	18	8	10	0	30	43	-13	3	35
7	Broward County Wolfpack	18	4	12	2	36	56	-20	7	25
8	Miami Breakers	18	3	14	1	27	46	-19	5	18

[edit] Western Conference

[edit] Rocky Mountain Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Colorado Comets	18	12	5	1	51	29	+22	7	56
2	Wichita Jets	18	8	8	2	46	60	-26	7	41
3	Boulder Nova	18	8	9	1	38	32	+6	7	41
4	Kansas City Brass	18	5	11	2	41	56	-15	6	28
5	Colorado Springs Stampede	18	5	11	2	27	46	-19	3	25

[edit] Northwest Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	Yakima Reds	18	12	5	1	59	29	+30	11	60
2	Spokane Shadow	18	11	4	3	43	36	+6	7	54
3	Seattle Sounders Select	18	11	6	1	33	28	+5	6	51
4	Abbotsford 86ers Select	18	8	9	1	49	44	+5	9	42
5	Cascade Surge	18	5	11	2	34	28	+6	6	28
6	Willamette Valley Firebirds	18	3	15	0	28	71	-43	4	16

[edit] Southwest Division

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Bonus	Points
1	San Fernando Valley Heroes	18	11	7	0	57	48	+9	12	56
2	Central Coast Roadrunners	18	11	7	0	51	39	+12	9	53
3	Nevada Zephyrs	18	7	11	0	32	43	-11	4	32
4	San Gabriel Valley Highlanders	18	4	14	0	35	66	-31	4	20

[edit] Playoffs

[edit] Conference Semi-Finals

Chicago Sockers 6-0 West Michigan Edge
Dayton Gems 1-0 Rockford Raptors
Tampa Bay Hawks 2-2 Vermont Voltage (Tampa win 4-2 on PKs)
Westchester Flames 1-0 Bradenton Academics
Colorado Comets 1-0 San Fernando Valley Heroes
Yakima Reds 2-0 Spokane Shadow

[edit] Conference Finals

Chicago Sockers 1-0 Dayton Gems
Westchester Flames 1-0 Tampa Bay Hawks
Yakima Reds 1-0 Colorado Comets

[edit] National Semi-Finals

Mid-Michigan Bucks 5-2 Yakima Reds
Chicago Sockers 5-0 Westchester Flames

[edit] Third Place Game

Westchester Flames 5-2 Yakima Reds

[edit] PDL Championship Game

Chicago Sockers 1-0 Mid-Michigan Bucks

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