CHICAGO FIRE PREMIER

'Chicago Fire Premier' are an American soccer team, founded in 2001 as part of the development system for the Chicago Fire Major League Soccer club. Until 2005 they were known as the 'Chicago Fire Reserves'. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and play in the Great Lakes Division of the Central Conference against teams from Cleveland, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids, South Bend and Toronto.
They currently play the majority of their home games at Toyota Park in the city of Bridgeview, Illinois, the home of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club first team. In 2007 they have also played selected games at the stadium on the grounds of Lemont Community High School in the village of Lemont, Illinois, about 25 miles south-east of downtown Chicago; at Campton Hills Park in St. Charles, Illinois, 42 miles west of downtown Chicago; and in the stadium on the grounds of Marist High School in Chicago itself. The team's colors are red and white.
The team is one of the most successful in the PDL, having won their respective divisional title six times in seven years, missing out for the first time in 2007.

Contents

2007 Roster

Year-by-year

Notable former players

External link

2007 Roster

Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Regular Season	Playoffs	Open Cup
2001	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Great Lakes	Conference Finals	''Did not qualify''
2002	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Great Lakes	Conference Semifinals	''Did not qualify''
2003	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Heartland	Final	''Did not qualify''
2004	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Heartland	Conference Finals	3rd Round
2005	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Great Lakes	Conference Semifinals	2nd Round
2006	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Great Lakes	Conference Finals	''Did not qualify''
2007	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Great Lakes	Conference Finals	''Did not qualify''

Notable former players

★ Kyle Brown

★ Ray Burse

★ Blake Camp

★ Denny Clanton

★ Ricardo Clark

★ Jay DeMerit

★ John DiRaimondo

★ Tighe Dombrowski

★ Gavin Glinton

★ Ned Grabavoy

★ Brad Guzan

★ David Guzman

★ John Michael Hayden

★ Thabiso Khumalo

★ C. J. Klaas

★ Cameron Knowles

★ Luke Kreamalmeyer

★ Doug Lascody

★ Hamid Mehreioskouei

★ Drew Moor

★ Brandon Moss

★ Julian Nash

★ Brad North

★ Danny O'Rourke

★ Matt Pickens

★ Brian Plotkin

★ Tim Regan

★ Dasan Robinson

★ Chris Rolfe

★ Jonathan Spector

★ Jamal Sutton

★ Sinisa Ubiparipovic

★ Lance Watson

★ Jed Zayner

External link

★ Chicago Fire Premier