Revolution Affiliate Clubs
The Revolution has forged development agreements with several soccer organizations, furthering the team’s reach into and impact on the Northeast region’s soccer community. With partnerships at the professional, development and youth academy level, the Revolution is the premier development organization in the Northeast.
The Rochester Rhinos are the Revolution’s official USL PRO affiliate. Under the partnership agreement, the Revs will loan at least four first-team players to the Rhinos for their USL season to gain meaningful playing time. Those players, who can be recalled to the Revs at any time, will spend the season in Rochester as full members of the Rhinos for their season.
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Real Boston Rams are the Revolution’s official USL Premier Development League affiliate. The affiliation agreement allows college-aged Revolution Academy youth team products the opportunity to play for the Rams during their PDL season. Additionally, members of the Revolution Academy’s youth teams’ technical staff will assist the Rams’ coaching staff to help oversee the Revolution players’ continued development during the summer months.
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Revolution Empire (U.S. Development Academy)
Revolution Empire is the Revolution’s first affiliate youth club, allowing its Academy players, coaches and development-level players access and involvement in the Revolution Academy development and competition system, with the ultimate goal to produce Revolution Homegrown players. On the competitive side, the Revolution Academy and Revolution Empire youth teams continue to compete as separate teams in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. However, both teams’ players train and develop under a similar system and Empire’s youth players are afforded the same training opportunities with the New England Revolution first-team as the Revs’ youth teams.
READ: Partnership announcement