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1998 USISL A-League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4593294 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1998 USISL A-League was an American Division II league run by the United Systems of Independent Soccer Leagues during the summer of 1998.

Regular season

Northeast Division

Atlantic Division

Central Division

Pacific Division

Conference Quarterfinals

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Conference semifinals

Eastern Conference semifinal 1

The Hershey Wildcats advance to the Eastern Conference final.

Eastern Conference semifinal 2

Western Conference semifinal 1

The Minnesota Thunder advanced 4-2 on aggregate.

Western Conference semifinal 2

The San Diego Flash advance to the Western Conference championship.

Conference finals

Eastern Conference

The Rochester Rhinos advanced to the finals.

Western Conference

The Minnesota Thunder advanced to the final.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1998 USISL A-League” as football league season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where USISL, A-League and football can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football league season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4593294. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “1998 USISL A-League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.