After a lot of early optimism despite a last-minute head-coaching change, Birmingham Legion’s 2026 season did not turn out as anybody would have wanted.
With just six wins from 30 league games, the Three Sparks finished on a measly 30 points. That’s only three points better than their worst-ever return, achieved the previous season.
The Black and Gold ranked 11th in the Eastern Conference, six points off the final playoff spot and above only the East’s two expansion sides in the table. And, unlike in 2025, they did not progress out of their group in the USL Cup.
A lot needs to change if Legion have any ambition of re-establishing themselves as a regular postseason team. Right now, the club is more likely to be looking down than up when promotion and relegation get introduced in 2028.
With this in mind, Birmingham Sports polled Legion fans for their views on the current players. The results are below.
The Players
Despite the team’s underwhelming performances, fans do not appear to place too much responsibility at the players’ feet. Of the 25 players rostered on the team at the end of the campaign, 15 had more votes to stay than leave. Eleven of those did so with a clear majority (>50%).
Conversely, only one player drew more than 50% of votes wishing for him to depart.
Jassem Koleilat
Jassem Koleilat was probably the easiest poll to answer, and it showed. Nobody collected more than the Czech shotstopper’s 86.54% of votes to remain at the club.
An offseason signing ahead of the 2026 season, Koleilat very quickly showed exactly why he was the reigning Canadian Premier League Golden Glove. Even in a struggling Legion team, Koleilat showed time and again that he was one of the best goalkeepers in the league.
Legion’s 30 points would have been far less without the shotstopper’s heroics in net, and he finished the season with 101 saves, the third-most in the USL Championship.
For Koleilat, the question really shouldn’t be whether the club wants to keep him, but if they can. His performances in 2026 will no doubt have attracted a fair few suitors among the higher-ranked USL teams, if not MLS and abroad.
With USL contract news rarely being transparent, we do not know if Koleilat signed for more than one year when he joined ahead of the season. If he did, Legion will at the very least make a pretty penny off his sale. If not, they better do everything they can to convince him next season will be better in the Magic City.
Fan opinion: Keep (+81.73)
Personal opinion: Keep
Phanuel Kavita
Birmingham Legion’s longest-serving player had a mixed season.
Though restored to the captaincy, the Rwanda international originally looked more likely to be a bench player than a starter, with a Bryce Washington – AJ Paterson duo preferred during preseason. But following injuries across the defense, Kavita ended up playing a majority of the first half of the season.
However, he then fell out of favour during the back end of the campaign and made just two starts in the final 12 games of the season.
Though 32 years old, the towering centerback is still going strong after becoming a regular for his national team in the past two years. The one main criticism that can be levied against him is his lack of pace, but he often makes up for it with clever positioning and anticipation.
Kavita is also more than just his on-field performances. A clear leader and one of the team’s most veteran players, he has become an important locker room presence in the Magic City. While he likely wouldn’t start in 2027, he’s a more-than serviceable backup, and his added intangible value to the team could make him worth keeping around.
If, as expected, a new head coach comes to the Magic City next season, having a player like Kavita in the locker room could be a big plus.
Fan opinion: Keep (+17.25)
Personal opinion: Keep
Sam McIllhatton
In his second season at the club, and second season as a professional, Sam McIllhatton continued to show himself a valuable member of the Three Sparks’ squad.
After a slow start to the season, the Australian was thrust into the starting XI following an injury to his namesake Samuel Shashoua, and made a pretty strong argument to keep him in the lineup after the Englishman’s return.
McIllhatton is not a headline-grabbing player, but his industrious contributions in midfield kept the team ticking, and his absence was often felt when neither he nor Shashoua were available for that holding midfield role.
While the team can certainly upgrade on the diminutive Australian, and probably should, he is the kind of floor-raising, hard-working player that every team should have in its arsenal.
Fan opinion: Keep (+30.38)
Personal opinion: Keep
Sebastián Saucedo
Sebastián Saucedo has been something of an enigma since his arrival in the Magic City midway through the 2025 season.
Signed after more than a year away from the game, the Mexican-American originally struggled to get back to the fitness required for professional soccer. There was hope that this season would be different following a proper preseason, yet the winger continued to be a bit-part player, rarely making the starting XI and missing out on many a gameday squad.
That isn’t to say Saucedo did not add something to the team, as he established himself as a reliable super-sub option with numerous goal contributions off the bench. The forward is undoubtedly a talented player, making his patchy fitness record all the more unnerving.
While you would like to believe that he will put his fitness concerns behind him in 2027 and return to the player he once was down in the Liga MX, there is no guarantee that will be the case and keeping him would therefore be a gamble.
Fan opinion: Keep (+21.95)
Personal opinion: Sell/Release
Kadeem Cole
The first player on this list with a negative fan opinion, Kadeem Cole did not make the desired impact in his first season with the Legion.
Stuck as a bit-part bench player behind Seth Antwi, the Nicaraguan international failed to impress in his limited appearances in the team. His best run of games came as an emergency centerback late on in the season, and that came out of necessity rather than merit.
Cole did earn his first international cap this season, but failed to make any real impact for the Black and Gold. While his signing is certainly the kind of punt you want a team like Legion to take in search of unknown talent, it’s fair to say this one was a bust.
Fan opinion: Sell/Release (-28.58)
Personal opinion: Sell/Release
Ronaldo Damus
Ronaldo Damus achieved an unwanted feat in our end-of-season poll. He was the only player to collect over 50% of votes for his departure (56.63%).
It’s fair to say the second season has not gone to plan for the Haitian forward, who was one of the team’s lone bright sparks in 2025. After scoring 14 times in his debut campaign at the club, Damus mustered just half that amount at the second attempt.
It marked the first time he failed to reach the double-digit mark in the USL Championship, at the fifth attempt.
The biggest issue with Damus is that if he isn’t scoring, he isn’t doing much at all. The diminutive forward has excellent movement in and around the box to find goalscoring opportunities, but offers very little in build-up. This is why Romario Williams, better able to drop deep, hold up play and link with teammates, displaced Damus as the starter up top for much of the season.
This has essentially made Damus into a luxury player. Drop him into a well-oiled, functional team and he will undoubtedly bag goals aplenty. But in a struggling side like Legion, he becomes too often a passenger the Three Sparks cannot afford to carry along.
A parting of the ways does therefore seem the best outcome for everyone involved.
Fan opinion: Sell/Release (-27.71)
Personal opinion: Sell/Release
Samuel Shashoua
Another 2025 loanee turned permanent signing, Samuel Shashoua is at the opposite end of the spectrum to Damus.
The Englishman, originally signed as a winger, proved an instrumental creative-force in Birmingham’s double-pivot this season. Though he somehow achieved only a single assist across the entire season, he created more chances than anybody on the team, and the 27th-most in the league.
With 71.60% of respondents opting to keep him around, the former Tottenham Hotspur academy product’s value has certainly not gone unnoticed. Surround him with a more capable cast of forward players and he will likely become one of the Magic City’s headline-makers.
Fan opinion: Keep (+55.55)
Personal opinion: Keep
Dawson McCartney
Even though he was signed as a winger, Dawson McCartney has established himself as one of Birmingham Legion’s most consistent players at left-back.
The 28-year-old featured in all but three games for the Three Sparks this season and even captained them on nine occasions. He developed a strong relationship with Gevork Diarbian down the left flank, and with six assists led the team in that department.
While the wide areas were often a problem defensively for the Black and Gold, with a majority of goals stemming from crosses into the box, McCartney is not solely to blame for those defensive breakdowns. While the former winger can certainly develop more on that side of the ball, he’s likely shown enough to keep his place on the team for the foreseeable future.
Fan opinion: Keep (+27.16)
Personal opinion: Keep
Trevor McMullen
In his second season with Birmingham Legion, Trevor McMullen played three times as many games as in his first.
Of course, that number is just three compared to 2025’s single game. His stats across both season have remained the same, conceding an average of exactly two goals per game, but there is little else to base judgment off of for the former Mercer University shotstopper.
McMullen was at fault for the Chattanooga Red Wolves’ equaliser in the USL Cup, but has otherwise shown himself a serviceable though unremarkable backup. His lack of playing time in the Magic City was reflected in his poll results, where over one third of respondents (34.62%) selected the “No Opinion” option.
Backup goalkeeper is one of the hardest positions to fill in soccer. You need someone good enough to do the job when called upon, but patient enough to wait for that opportunity in a role where only one starter gets a vast majority of the playing time. With Jassem Koleilat likely moving on to greener pastures, McMullen might hope to stake a claim for the No. 1 spot. More likely, the club will look to sign a new starting-caliber goalkeeper but retain the youngster as backup should he agree to continue in that role.
Fan opinion: Sell/Release (-16.67)
Personal opinion: Keep
Tyler Pasher
While Tyler Pasher is undoubtedly a very talented footballer, his impact on Birmingham Legion wavered as the season progressed.
Originally lined up as the N. 10 in Jay Heaps’ 4-2-3-1, the Canadian playmaker appeared to find new life. He admitted in a post-game press conference that he was enjoying the move centrally as he no longer has the explosiveness required in the wing positions.
But as the season progressed and the team continued to struggle in the attacking department, Pasher was eventually replaced by the in-form Peter-Lee Vassell in that central creative role. From there on out, he became more of a rotational player, lining up once again on the wings and proving what he himself had admitted earlier in the campaign about his decreased effectiveness in the role.
Now 32 years old, Pasher’s best years are likely behind him. While he still showed in glimpses that he retains serious quality, it may be time to hit reset in the Magic City and find someone younger to take over the Canadian’s spot.
Fan opinion: Keep (+1.17)
Personal opinion: Sell/Release
Peter-Lee Vassell
As mentioned above, Peter-Lee Vassell seized his opportunity midway through the season to become the Three Sparks’ starting attacking midfielder. After a sparkling run of form in June, Vassell featured in every game from there on out and finished the season as one of the team’s primary goal contributors with five goals and five assists.
Vassell provided particular value through his set-piece delivery as well as his link-up play with fellow Jamaican Romario Williams, with the two often combining for each other’s goals.
Also capable of playing out wide on either wing, Vassell has come a long way since joining the team near the end of 2025 as a free agent. While he shouldn’t be a locked-down starter in 2027, he’s certainly proved good enough to provide serious competition in those attacking midfield and winger roles.
Fan opinion: Keep (+60.26)
Personal opinion: Keep
Romario Williams
The other half of Legion’s Jamaican duo, Romario Williams took a while to get going in the Magic City. But once he did, he was nearly unstoppable for a period.
After being in and out for the first half of the season, everything clicked for Williams starting with his late appearance against Sporting Club Jacksonville in August. Williams scored off the bench, earned a start for the next game and went on to score in the next four games on the trot, totalling six conversions in five outings.
His run of form earned him the captain’s armband for a couple of games, and he ended the season as Legion’s top scorer with nine goals as well as three assists.
Williams also showed that he is more than just goals, providing excellent link up and hold up play when dropping deeper to relieve pressure off the Birmingham defence. Though only 5’11”, he plays the target forward role as if he were 6’3″ and few defenders managed to get the ball off him.
Like Pasher, Williams is getting up there in years at 32, but unlike the Canadian he plays in a position where explosiveness is less fundamental. While I would not expect him to retain his starting spot next season, there is a lot of value in having a reliable, league-proven goalscorer like Williams to come off the bench and push the starter to give their best.
Fan opinion: Keep (+50.64)
Personal opinion: Keep
Seth Antwi
While Seth Antwi did not necessarily win the plaudits he deserved, he was one of the brightest sparks on the team in his first season in Birmingham.
The defensive midfielder kept alive the Three Sparks’ streak of featuring a Ghanaian player on the team in every season since its inception, but more importantly proved invaluable as the key defensive destroyer in the midfield.
Usually lined up next to a more forward-thinking Samuel Shashoua, Antwi had a lot of the defensive burden fall upon his shoulders. While the number of goals Legion conceded from crosses this season was understandably an issue, it conversely showed that the Three Sparks were letting very little through the middle.
Antwi was a major part in doing that, leading the team in both interceptions (35) and tackles won (37) to go with his 85 clearances and 12 blocks.
Antwi is not the kind of player who will often make the headlines, but he is the type of contributor without whom none of the other successes would be possible. The Ghanaian started every league game this season, captained the final two and should be a vital cog for this team moving forward.
Fan opinion: Keep (+62.5)
Personal opinion: Keep
Gevork Diarbian
Another newcomer with a positive influence, Gevork Diarbian was the player who best represented this Legion team this season.
The Armenian-American was a constant threat down his favoured left wing, turning fullbacks inside out at will and getting fans off their feet, yet failed to provide any meaningful goal contributions for much of the season. A lot of that came down to poor decision-making, notably an unwillingness to pull the trigger when required.
Diarbian often got into the box only to run into one final defender and lose the ball, when a shot or pass a few moments earlier would likely have, at the very least, forced the goalkeeper into a save.
Still a raw talent at just 24 years old, Diarbian has plenty of time to develop those final-third skills he is still lacking. Had the season gone better for the Legion, he likely wouldn’t have had to shoulder quite as much of the team’s attacking threat and may have been better off for it.
And the former New England Revolution winger did show late on in the season that he was improving his decision-making, with three goal contributions in his final 10 games, the same return as in his first 23. If he can build off of that going into the new year, he should be a crucial attacking threat for whatever revamped Three Sparks offence we get in 2027.
Fan opinion: Keep (+69.14)
Personal opinion: Keep
AJ Paterson
AJ Paterson has had a rough last couple of years in the Magic City. Signed in 2024 after four stellar seasons with the Charleston Battery, Paterson has so far failed to reach the same heights for the Three Sparks.
Unfortunately for him, it is not performance-levels but rather injuries that have been holding the centerback back. In the past two seasons, Paterson has featured just 27 times for the Legion, only one appearance more than the 26 he made in his first year at the club.
This season, Paterson picked up what was originally described as a “minor” injury in the opening game of the season, only to miss the next five months because of it. He ended up making a mere eight appearances across the board, and played more than 45 minutes just three times.
When he did play, Paterson showed glimpses of the defender he can be. His strengths lie primarily in his abilities in possession, proving able to build out from the back with short combinations or find runners in behind with gorgeous through balls over the top.
Unfortunately, the Legion faithful got to see far too little of the 30-year-old for the second year running, and expecting him to stay fit in 2027 could therefore be a risky gamble.
Fan opinion: Keep (+4.94)
Personal opinion: Sell/Release
Sebastian Tregarthen
One of the few bright spots from the 2025 campaign, Sebastian Tregarthen built on his rookie season with another year of pace, versatility and hard work.
Capable of playing both right back or on the wings, Tregarthen saw equal time between the two positions, often changing from one to the other mid-game when Jay Heaps made substitutions.
The Uruguayan was a near-ever-present for the team, appearing in 30 of the season’s 34 games. In that time, he showed that he has improved his end product, something he needed to work on at the end of 2025, notching seven goals and laying off two assists after getting four conversions in his rookie season.
Like Diarbian, Tregarthen is still very raw in just his second season as a professional, but his work ethic cannot be questioned. He will often be in the team’s top rankers for distance covered and sprinted in a game, always running himself into the ground for the good of the collective.
Though already 26, it’s important to remember he was still playing college soccer as recently as 2024. His upside therefore remains exciting, and he will hopefully keep building on his progress in 2027.
Fan opinion: Keep (+66.27)
Personal opinion: Keep
Amir Daley
Amir Daley started the year injured but quickly claimed the starting right-back spot as his own following his return. However, as the season progressed he soon fell out of favour and did not feature in any of the final seven games of the season.
While there is a possibility some of that could have been down to an un-shared injury, he did make the bench in two of those seven games to suggest he was fit to play. Prior to that spell on the sidelines, he also started just two of the previous 10 games, coming on as a substitute in an additional five.
Daley joined the side permanently at the start of the year after a succesfull loan from Cincinnati in 2025. As a loanee, the right-back had made an instant impact and became one of the team’s top goal contributors from wing-back. He failed to match that output in his second year though, getting neither goal nor assist throughout the entire season.
Based on 2025, it’s clear there is a good player in Amir Daley. So whether his underwhelming 2026 season is due to mismanagement, non-publicised injuries or just poor form is hard to determine. But given what we saw from the Antigua and Barbuda international this past year, it’s hard to make an argument for keeping him around any longer.
Fan opinion: Sell/Release (-25.00)
Personal opinion: Sell/Release
Bryce Washington
Bryce Washington joined ahead of the season after his former club, North Carolina FC, put themselves on hiatus. In preseason, it looked like he and AJ Paterson were set to start together, but, as with his presumed defensive partner, injuries decided to have their say.
Though Washington did not miss anywhere near as much time as his Grenadian teammate, small niggles prevented him building up any consistency in the first part of his season. Only in July did he start getting a proper run in the XI, starting nine games in a row and even captaining the side on two occasions.
When he finally did start, Washington more often than not had to deal with a revolving cast of teammates around him due to injuries or a hectic schedule. Among it all, he proved himself a reliable defender with a fair bit of pace, leading the team in both clearances (120) and blocks (26).
Washington ended up playing 22 times in his maiden season in the Magic City, 19 of those from the off. Across those appearances, he kept an impressively clean disciplinary record of just four fouls and one yellow card. It seems likely he will return as the starting centerback the rest of the defense can be built around in 2027.
Fan opinion: Keep (+29.48)
Personal opinion: Keep
Hamady Diop
Legion’s latest addition, Hamady Diop joined the Black and Gold from Rhode Island FC with only 11 games left in the season. After making his debut as a halftime substitute in a game where his acquisition was announced midway through the contest, Diop started five of the next six games in his new colours.
While injury kept him out of two games, he ended up appearing in every game he was fit for, starting seven times. It was perhaps not ideal that his addition to the team came amidst a run of conceding 2+ goals per game, but Diop still found time to show some bright spots here and there.
Composed in possession and providing some welcome balance as a naturally left-footed centerback following Ramiz Hamouda’s departure, he did not set the world alight but neither did he do anything to negatively impact his standing. Whether he remains at the club moving forward is hard to guess based on such a small sample size, but he might just have done enough for the Three Sparks to take a punt on him in 2027.
Fan opinion: Sell/Release (-9.33)
Personal opinion: Keep
Jonathan Hernandez & Jaylen Lester
Jonathan Hernandez and Jaylen Lester were announced together midway through the season as two 18-year-olds signed to academy contracts. Neither one made a single appearance for the team however, so it is impossible to determine their ability.
Both had a couple of cameos on the bench, but with no game time there isn’t anything to judge them on. They were fairly rated youth prospects in the Atlanta United and FC Cincinnati academies, respectively, but that is all that can be said about either at this point.
Fan opinion: No opinion (57.14% & 60.53%)
Personal opinion: No opinion
Nico Brown
Another winger turned fullback, Nico Brown took some time to make himself at home in the Magic City.
After featuring in two of the first four games, he missed the fifth one with an undisclosed illness. He was not seen again for the better part of two months, with just a brief 10-minute league cameo and 45-minute cup outing between April 12 and June 13.
A few days ago, he answered some of the questions surrounding that absence by revealing in an Instagram post that his illness had required trips to the ER and ICU.
Brown’s second half of the season is all-the-more remarkable given that context, as he started in the league for the first time post-illness on June 17 and went on to start in 13 of the next 18 league games, with substitute appearances in an additional three.
Brown split time between the right- and left-back spots, in addition to making one surprise start at centerback when the team needed him to. Across those appearances, he showed himself a more-than-capable defender with a gritty resilience and hard-working attitude, though some of the expected issues of playing a winger in defence also occured.
While he still has some learning to do on the defensive side of things and will probably feel he can contribute more in the final third given his previous experience further up the pitch, Brown probably did enough to prove himself a valuable squad player if nothing else.
Fan opinion: Sell/Release (-2.6)
Personal opinion: Keep
Serge Ngoma (on loan from NY Red Bulls)
Serge Ngoma came to Birmingham in search of regular playing time after injuries hampered a lot of his young career, including missing out on the entirety of 2023 with a muscle injury.
While he probably did not get as many starts as he or his bosses in New York would have wanted, Ngoma did find his role on the team as a super-sub. With his pace and trickery, the youngster often came off the bench late in games to run at tired legs, though with mixed results.
Ngoma ended up contributing two goals and three assists in just over 600 minutes for the club, averaging out to a goal contribution every two games. Looking at it that way, you could think Ngoma showed himself good enough that Legion should sign him, but the stats don’t tell the full story.
While Ngoma is undoubtedly a talented young player, his profile is quite similar to Gevork Diarbian and Sebastian Tregarthen, with all three suffering from similar areas in their game that come from inexperience. Given those two are ahead of him in the pecking order, Legion would likely be better off sending Ngoma back to New York and finding some more experienced wingers to compete with the two promising youngsters they already have.
Fan opinion: Return to parent club (-1.3)
Personal opinion: Return to parent club
The club
In addition to our player polls, Birmingham Sports Media also asked fans to weigh in on two important matters pertaining to the club’s future: Jay Heaps’ role within the organisation, and the venue the Three Sparks play at.
The overall response to both polls was pretty clear: the fans want change.
Less than 15% of respondents wanted to see Heaps remain as head coach, compared to nearly 45% wanting him out of the club completely. The numbers regarding the venue were similar, with just 10.19% of respondents voting to remain at Protective Stadium.
These two polls received the most responses and had among the least “no opinion” options selected, showing that fans feel strongly on both subjects.
Jay Heaps
Jay Heaps has been with Birmingham Legion since its inception, but only became head coach at the start of this season. Originally the club’s president, then CEO and then Chief Soccer Officer, Heaps took on the head coaching role following the last-minute departure of Mark Briggs for an assistant position in MLS.
After an initially exciting period where the team played free-flowing attacking football, frustrations started to grow with Heaps’ team for two reasons. Nearly every goal conceded came from the same types of plays, and the attack appeared unable to find its finishing touch.
Though players initially expressed belief, stating that once things clicked with the new formation and tactics they would be flying, that moment never came. As the season dragged on and games all started to look the same, fans grew frustrated and questioned Heaps’ ability to lead the team to success. His fiery personality and poor disciplinary record only added fuel to the fire.
In the end, Heaps had a better season than his predecessor, but barely.
Heaps beat Briggs’ points tally by just three points, averaging exactly one point per league game to the Englishman’s 0.92. He can also point to the team’s attacking and defensive outputs as having both improved under his tenure, with 47 goals scored and 48 conceded, compared to 44 and 56, respectively, across 2025.
It has to be said that Heaps was not given an ideal situation, taking on the role only a week before players returned for preseason. But, unlike Briggs, that does still mean he had an entire preseason to work with them, and a majority of players brought in were with his system in mind.
The situation in Birmingham is now complicated, as Heaps remains the club’s CEO in addition to its head coach. However, recent reports have suggested that the club will hire Ian Fuller to take over in the dugout, with Heaps returning to his front office role full-time.
While Legion have put out a statement denying any truth to these rumours, the wording does imply that the Three Sparks are indeed searching for a new face to lead the team.
The question then remains on whether Heaps should remain as CEO, or depart entirely. Nearly half of respondents wanted to see the back of the former USMNT international, while one third of respondents opted to have him stay on behind the scenes.
In my opinion, there is little doubt that Heaps cares deeply for the club he has helped build, and with a new president brought in and soon a new head coach and potentially venue, there is some hope he is still leading them in a positive direction. Fans are understandably asking for a full reset following three successive years of disappointment, but it might be prudent to keep around the club’s longest-serving employee given the numerous changes that will be going on around him.
However, his leash should certainly be shorter should the bad times continue in the Magic City.
Fan opinion: Remove entirely (42.72%)
Personal opinion: Remove as head coach, but keep as CEO
Venue
Ever since the club’s move to the stadium in 2022, Protective Stadium has been a point of contention with Legion fans.
While the facility is undoubtedly one of the nicest in the USL ecosystem, the unavoidable fact is that it does not match the Three Sparks’ needs. The stadium fits 47,100 fans, but Legion attract only two-to-three thousand on average. As a result, even the most popular games still feel empty in the cavernous arena.
To their credit, Legion tried something different this season and hosted three games at their training facility in Dunnavant Valley. For three games at the end of the season, the Black and Gold welcomed their opponents to a smaller venue with a much more intimate feel.
Though all three outings ended in draws, the atmosphere was undoubtedly superior. Every single player asked about it said they preferred their experience there, and many credited the team’s comeback from 4-1 down to drawing 4-4 against New Mexico United to the energy they got from the crowd.
However, Dunnavant Valley is in Shelby County, some 20-30 minutes from downtown Birmingham. Some fans feel strongly that a team named Birmingham Legion should play in Birmingham proper, and the drive down Hwy 280 is certainly not ideal for any midweek games.
There are credible rumours that Legion higher-ups have been looking at options to build their own, soccer-specific stadium. But even if they were to break ground tomorrow, it would not be ready for the 2027 season. As a result, the Three Sparks need a temporary home until then.
In our poll, only 10.19% of respondents voted to stay in Protective, while 32.41% preferred Dunnavant Valley. But a vast majority (53.70%) chose the “neither” option, likely due in some part to the issues mentioned above.
A renewed partnership with UAB, whose soccer pitch Legion shared for the first few years of their existence, has been mooted, while a few other options exist with varying levels of feasibility and practicality.
Despite the many question marks, Legion have already started advertising season ticket renewals for the 2027 season. One would hope an announcement on a venue will follow soon so fans actually know what they are signing up for.
Fan opinion: Neither Protective nor Dunnavant Valley (53.70%)
Personal opinion: Neither Protective nor Dunnavant Valley
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