Buffalo Stallions (NPSL)

Buffalo Stallions

Founded	January 16, 2025; 6 months ago (2025-01-16)
Ground	North Tonawanda High School North Tonawanda, New York
Capacity	2,000
Coordinates	43°03′03″N 78°52′15″W / 43.050764°N 78.870764°W / 43.050764; -78.870764
President	William Van Slyke
Head coach	Mark Spacone
League	National Premier Soccer League
Website	buffalostallions.org
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Buffalo Stallions are an American soccer team based in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 2025, it is the only nonprofit soccer franchise and youth academy in the Buffalo region.

The team competes in National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) as part of their Great Lakes Conference, the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid. Home games are played at North Tonawanda High School.

On January 16, 2025, National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) awarded an expansion franchise to Buffalo, New York.^[1] It is the fourth NPSL franchise in Buffalo's history, after Queen City FC (2007–2008), Buffalo City FC (2009), and FC Buffalo (2010–2022).^[2]

The franchise adopted the name and logo of the defunct indoor soccer team.^[1]

William Van Slyke operates the club as a nonprofit, along with a youth academy of the same name.^[3][4][5] The team has pledged to donate any profit the organization earns to funding scholarships for their academy players.^[6]

Mark Spacone was named as the team's first head coach in January 2025.^[7] Spacone previously coached the Daemen Wildcats in NCAA Division II.^[8] He also co-founded Sam's Army while playing full-back for the Buffalo State Bengals.^[9]

Rudy Pompert was named the club's assistant coach and technical director.^[3] Pompert previously served as head coach of the Buffalo FFillies of W-League and Buffalo State Bengals of NCAA Division III.^[10]

The team plays at North Tonawanda High School, where Stallions director of operations Jeff Hoerner was a longtime soccer coach.^[11][12] Sportsplex in North Tonawanda is the team's indoor practice facility, and it was previously used by both the Buffalo Stallions and Buffalo Blizzard.^[13][14][15]

The club lost its inaugural game at home to Cleveland SC by a score of 3–0 on May 10, 2025.^[16] Stanislav Koval led Cleveland in scoring with two goals.^[16]

As of July 5, 2025^[17]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Jack Petrie 1 GK  USA Whitaker Sackman 1 GK  USA Justin Vullo 2 MF  USA JP Barone 3 DF  BDI Chris Inganji 4 FW  USA Andy Loomis 5 MF  USA Jacob Korte 6 DF  BAH Jean Tilo 7 DF  USA Jason Hernandez 8 DF  CAN Jake McConnery 8 MF  USA Ben Schmidt 8 FW  CGO Douglass Tshibuyi 9 FW  BAH Larry Noel 10 FW  USA Christopher Griffiths 11 DF  USA Axel Lozoya

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 DF  USA Riley Wagner (captain) 13 FW  USA Chris Cox 14 DF  USA Sam Mann 15 DF  USA Riley Quinn 16 DF  SWE Alexander Khademi 17 FW  USA Luke Szablewski 18 DF  USA Thomas Mullane 19 MF  USA James Bruneau 20 FW  USA Gianni Pezzino 21 MF  USA Keegan Herrmann 22 FW  USA Tyler Warmington 23 DF  USA Samuel LaMendola 24 DF  USA Evan Osetkowski 26 GK  USA Daniel Fiegel II

Includes players trained under the academy's former incarnations as Buffalo United Soccer Club and the Buffalo branch of Empire United Soccer Academy.

• Abdi Salim^[18]
• Bobby Shuttleworth^[19]

Position	Staff
Head coach	Mark Spacone
Assistant coach	Rudy Pompert
Goalkeeping coach	Sebastian Perez-Arteaga

• Last updated: 10 May 2025
• Source:^[20]

External videos
Buffalo Stallions home game broadcasts

All Buffalo Stallions home games are streamed live on the club's YouTube channel.^[21]

The club's broadcast team consists of Tony Occhiuto of WEBR on play-by-play, and Andy Cash of WEBR on color commentary.

• Official website