The Austin Lone Stars were a soccer club that competed in the SISL, USISL and United Soccer Leagues

United Soccer Leagues

The United Soccer Leagues is the organizer of several soccer leagues with teams in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. It includes men's and women's leagues, both professional and amateur. Leagues currently organized are the USL Pro, the USL Premier Development League, the W-League, and...

 from 1987 to 2000. The club originally started in 1987/88 as the Austin Sockadillos in the original indoor SISL league. They became the Austin Lone Stars in 1994.

History

In 1987, Fernando Marcos established the Austin Sockadillos. Coached by Tony Simoes and assisted by Wolfgang Suhnholz

Wolfgang Suhnholz

Wolfgang Sühnholz is an American soccer coach and former player from Germany. He is currently coach of the Austin Aztex U23 and a coach at Austin's Lonestar Soccer Club.-Playing career:...

, the team played in the Southwest Indoor Soccer League (SISL). During the 1988-1989 season, they played their home games at Tatu

Tatu (soccer)

Antonio Carlos Pecorari , commonly known as Tatu, is a former Brazilian football player, one of the most accomplished indoor soccer players of all time....

's All Star Indoor Soccer Place. The league ran two outdoor seasons, but in 1989, introduced a summer outdoor season as well. During the 1989 outdoor season, the league was known as the Southwest Outdoor Soccer League and the team was known as the Capital Sockadillos It played its home games at a variety of venues including Burger Center, Nelson Field

Nelson Field

Nelson Field is a multi-use stadium in Austin, Texas. It serves as home stadium for LBJ High School, Anderson High School, and John H. Reagan High School. The stadium's capacity is 8,800 spectators....

, and House Park

House Park

House Park is a 6,000-6,500 seat American football stadium in Austin, Texas that is owned and operated by the Austin Independent School District....

. During the 1989 indoor season, the Sockadillos finished runner up to the Lubbock Lazers

Lubbock Lazers

The Lubbock Lazers were a soccer club based in Lubbock, Texas that competed in the SISL and USISL. For the 1991/92 indoor season, the team was named the Lubbock Tornado, but returned as the Lazers after that season.-Year-by-year:...

, but garnered multiple post-season honors,including MPV and league leading scorer (71 goals) Brian Monaghan, assist leader Uwe Balzis and Coach of the Year Tony Simoes. This year, Saeed Kadkhodaian

Saeed Kadkhodaian

Saeed Kadkhodaian is a retired American soccer player, former team owner and currently the president of Azad, Inc. Soccer USA and Doostan, Inc. Soccer USA. He had previously played for, owned and coached the Austin Sockadillos and owned the Minnesota Thunder from 2005 to 2007.Kadkhodaian, a native...

 also became team owner and Suhnholz replaced Simoes as head coach. Kadkhodaian had played for the team in its first few seasons. He had also held several positions in the team management. In 1990 Kadkhodaian leased the club to the Austin Capital Soccer Club. In March 1994, the team was renamed the Lone Stars and Suhnholz returned as head coach. By this time, the team was co-owned by Kadkhodaian and Rick Schram. In February 1997, the Lone Stars became a fully professional team.

Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Reg. Season	Playoffs	Open Cup
1987/88	N/A	SISL Indoor	3rd	Final	N/A
1988/89	N/A	SISL Indoor	1st, South	Final	N/A
1989	N/A	SOSL	4th	Did not qualify	Did not enter
1989/90	N/A	SISL Indoor	2nd, Texas	1st Round	N/A
1990	N/A	SISL	2nd, Eastern	Semifinals	Did not enter
1990/91	N/A	SISL Indoor	2nd, Southwest	Quarterfinals	N/A
1991	N/A	SISL	6th, Tex-Oma	Did not qualify	Did not enter
1991/92	N/A	USISL Indoor	6th, Tex-Oma	Did not qualify	N/A
1992	N/A	USISL	5th, South Central	Did not qualify	Did not enter
1993	N/A	USISL	5th, South Central	Did not qualify	Did not enter
1994	3	USISL	5th, South Central	Divisional Finals	Did not enter
1995	"4"	USISL Premier League	2nd, Central	Divisional Semifinals	Did not qualify
1996	"4"	USISL Premier League	1st, Central Southern	Division Finals	Did not qualify
1997	3	USISL D-3 Pro League	2nd, South Central	Division Semifinals	2nd Round
1998	3	USISL D-3 Pro League	1st, South Central	Semifinals	2nd Round
1999	3	USL D-3 Pro League	5th, Western	Conference Semifinals	1st Round
2000	3	USL D-3 Pro League	8th, Southern	Did not qualify	Did not qualify

Honors

MVP

• Brian Monaghan (1989)
• Gabe Jones
  Gabe Jones (soccer)
  Gabe Jones is a retired American soccer player who was the 1995 USISL MVP and leading scorer. He played one game for the Dallas Burn of Major League Soccer.-Youth:...
  
   (1995)

Leading scorer

• Brian Monaghan (1989)
• Gabe Jones
  Gabe Jones (soccer)
  Gabe Jones is a retired American soccer player who was the 1995 USISL MVP and leading scorer. He played one game for the Dallas Burn of Major League Soccer.-Youth:...
  
   (1995)

Rookie of the Year

• Steve Bailey (1987-1988)

Coach of the Year

• Tony Simoes