DES MOINES MENACE

'Des Moines Menace' is an American soccer team, founded in 1994. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference with Boulder, Kansas City, Sioux Falls, Springfield, St. Louis and Thunder Bay.
Des Moines currently plays their home games at Waukee Stadium in the city of Waukee, Iowa, 14 miles west of downtown Des Moines. The team has tried raising money for a new 6,000 capacity soccer-specific stadium in suburban Des Moines, but has struggled to find a city to cooperate with. The club annually leads the PDL in attendance.
Des Moines is one of the more successful teams in the PDL. Despite losing their first 10 games in their debut season, they reached the final stages of the PDL Championship playoffs in 1995 and 1998, before winning the PDL Championship title in 2005, beating the El Paso Patriots in El Paso, Texas.
The team's colors are red, white and black.
Tomas Boltnar, a Croatian and a two-time (2002, 2003) PDL MVP, is the club's all-time leading scorer with 73 goals.

Contents

Current squad

Coaches

Year-by-year

Honors

Notable former players

Average Attendance

External links

Current squad

''As of June 24 2007''

Coaches

★ Laurie Calloway (2002)

★ Casey Mann (2003-date)

Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Regular Season	Playoffs	Open Cup
1994	''N/A''	USISL	7th, Midwest	''Did not qualify''	''Did not enter''
1995	''N/A''	USISL Premier League	3rd, Central	4th Place	''Did not qualify''
1996	"4"	USISL Premier League	5th, CENTRAL Southern	Division Semifinals	''Did not qualify''
1996/97	''N/A''	I-League ''(indoor)''	''N/A (limited schedule)''
1997	"4"	USISL PDSL	3rd, Central	Quarterfinals	''Did not qualify''
1998	"4"	USISL PDSL	2nd, Central	3rd Place	''Did not qualify''
1999	"4"	USL PDL	4th, Heartland	''Did not qualify''	''Did not qualify''
2000	"4"	USL PDL	3rd, Heartland	''Did not qualify''	''Did not qualify''
2001	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	''Did not qualify''	''Did not qualify''
2002	"4"	USL PDL	1st, Heartland	Conference Semifinals	2nd Round
2003	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Conference Semifinals	1st Round
2004	"4"	USL PDL	3rd, Heartland	''Did not qualify''	''Did not qualify''
2005	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Champions	4th Round
2006	"4"	USL PDL	2nd, Heartland	Conference Semifinals	3rd Round
2007	"4"	USL PDL	4th, Heartland	''Did not qualify''	''Did not qualify''

Honors

★ 'PDL National Champions:'

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★ 'Winner :' 2005

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★ 'Third Place' 1998

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★ 'Fourth Place' 1995

★ 'Division Championships:'

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★ 2002

★ 'US Open Cup:'

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★ 'Fourth Round:' 2005

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★ 'Third Round:' 2006

★ 'PDL Playoff Appearances (8)'

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★ 1995

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★ 1996

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★ 1997

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★ 1998

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★ 2002

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★ 2003

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★ 2005

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★ 2006

Notable former players

★ Chad Crandell

★ Andy Gruenebaum

★ Ezra Hendrickson

★ Michael Kraus

★ Eddie Mukahanana

★ Matt Nickell

★ Stu Riddle

★ Stephen Shirley

★ Ventsi Stoimirov

Average Attendance

★ 1994: 67

★ 1995: 234

★ 1996: 341

★ 1997: 294

★ 1998: 895

★ 1999: 1,963

★ 2000: 2,256

★ 2001: 3,919

★ 2002: 4,402

★ 2003: 3,971

★ 2004: 4,475

★ 2005: 3,877

★ 2006: 3,927

★ 2007: 3,589

External links

★ Official Website

★ The Des Moines Menace USL Website

★ The Red Army (Fan Group) Official Website