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2020–21 Los Angeles Force season

club's second season in the National Independent Soccer Association

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ104863945 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2020–21 Los Angeles Force season was the club's second in the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) and second overall.

Roster

Players

As of April 8, 2021

Staff

Thales Peterson – Head coach

Salvador Moran – Assistant coach

Ramon Melin – Goalkeeper coach

Alberto Gomez – Fitness coach

Gabriel Torricelli Vicente – Head Physiotherapist

Friendlies

Competitions

NISA Fall Season

On June 4, NISA announced details for the 2020 Fall Season. The eight member teams would be split into conferences, Eastern and Western, with the Force playing in the later.

The Fall regular season schedule was announced on July 31, 2020. The team played two regular season games against the rest of the Western Conference.

Standings

Results summary

Matches

Fall Playoffs

All eight NISA teams qualified for the 2020 Fall tournament, which will be hosted at Keyworth Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, beginning on September 21 ending with the final on October 2.

Group stage

Knock-Out Stage

NISA Spring Season

NISA Legends Cup

NISA announced initial spring season plans in early February 2021, including starting the season with a tournament in Chattanooga, Tennessee with a standard regular season to follow. The tournament, now called the NISA Legends Cup, was officially announced on March 10 and is scheduled to run between April 13 and 25. All nine NISA members teams taking part in the Spring were divided into three team groups and played a round robin schedule. The highest placing group winner automatically qualified for the tournament final, while the second and third highest group winners played one-another in a semifinal to determine a second finalist.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2020–21 Los Angeles Force season” is club's second season in the National Independent Soccer Association. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Angeles, Force and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Angeles, Force and season is the immediate research focus.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104863945. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “2020–21 Los Angeles Force 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.