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2010 Carolina RailHawks FC season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4616872 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2010 Carolina Railhawks FC season was the fourth season of the franchise, which was played in the temporary USSF Division 2 Pro League.

Conference table

Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Transfers

OUT

IN: Tommy Heinemann (loan from Charleston Battery, Sept-Oct 2010); Claudio Suárez (exhibition guest appearance 9/5/2010); Allan Russell (7/23/2010); Ty Shipalane (6/1/2010); David Hayes (5/12/2010)

Match results

Win

Tie

Loss

Preseason

USSF Division 2 Professional League Regular Season

2010 U.S. Open Cup

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

RailHawks advance 4–0 on aggregate

Semifinals

RailHawks advance 2–1 on aggregate.

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This entry incorporates text from “2010 Carolina RailHawks FC season” 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.