The United States is a member of CONCACAF, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football.
U.S. Men’s National Team played their first ever game in 1916 vs. Sweden in Stockholm.
The first soccer league in the United States was the American Football Association, which existed from 1884-88.
In the early years of of the game, American soccer was dominated by teams from New England, particularly Fall River, New Bedford and Pawtucket.
Of the 16 members of the USA's first World Cup team in 1930, five were born in Scotland and one in England.