Western Soccer League/Alliance

Portland Timbers is an American professional football club based in Portland, Oregon. Timber is participating in the Major League Soccer (MLS) competition as a member club of Western Union. Since 2011, Timbers has started home games at the Providence Park since the team began to function as an extension team of the league. The club was founded in 2009 when Portland was awarded the expansion of the Major League Football League. This team is owned by Peregrine Sports and holds a majority stake in Merritt Paulson, acquired the then USL Pro team in 2007 and founded the Portland Thorny Women team in 2012. The club was the fourth football franchise headquartered in the Phoenix club and Portland, and the team inherited the legacy of the name of the original team's timber in the 1975 North American football league.

Football in Portland, Oregon, can be traced back to the football team who entered NASL as an extended team until the seventh season of the club in 1982. The main achievement of the club was' 75 soccer balls that were in the first season of the league's playoff that won the league regional final, they lost to Tampa Bay Rowdies in the championship. 1985, FC Portland established the Charter Club of the Western Football League until 1990, it became it. Until 2001 when USL Timbers was founded and joined the USL Pro Football game until two years, there were no football clubs in this city. The club stopped the business in 2010. Regularly in 2004 and 2009, the USL Pro Club left the best record in the league.

Originally known as the American Women's Association, the W Alliance was founded in 1995 and has offered professional outlets to many of the top domestic women's football players. Women's Football Senior Football League (WPSL) began at the western tournament of the W League, broke up in 1997 and formed a unique league. In the first season of 1998, the W League and WPSL were regarded as priority selections for the Women's Football Club. In the US league, but eventually after the establishment of the Women's Football Association, it fell to the "second line" level