Salem City Football Club is an American amateur soccer club based in Bermuda Run, North Carolina that fields a men's team in USL League Two, and a women's team as the "North Carolina Fusion" in the USL W League. The teams play their home games at the Crater Stadium.
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History
The team, which was named "Greensboro Dynamo" until 1996, was owned by Neil Macpherson, a passionate follower and former shareholder of English football club Nottingham Forest, as could be seen from the similarities between the crest of Greensboro Dynamo and the crest of Forest.
In 2018, the Carolina Dynamo merged with NC Fusion to form "North Carolina Fusion U-23". In 2023, the club was purchased by a private group who rebranded the club as "Salem City FC", seeking to link the team more directly with Winston-Salem.
Plans were announced in June of the 2026 USL League Two season of an eventual move to the USL League One
Honors
Premier Development League / USL League Two
Regular Season Champions (1): 2006
National Championship Final (2): 2012, 2021
Eastern Conference Champions (2): 2004, 2012
Southern Conference Champions (2): 2021, 2022
Division Champions (12)
Mid Atlantic Division (1): 2004
South Atlantic Division (10): 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Southeast Division (1): 2007
Others
USISL Champions (2): 1993, 1994
USISL Atlantic Division Champions (2): 1993, 1994
USISL Select League South Atlantic Division Champions (1): 1996
USL Pro Select/Soccer League Southern Division Champions (1): 2003
National Amateur Cup (1): 2013
Head coaches
Michael Parker (1993–1995)
Alan Dicks (1996–1997)
Joe Brown (1999–2000)
Robert Rosario (2001)
Joe Brown (2002–2003)
Carl Fleming (2004)
Joe Brown (2005–2010)
Marc Nicholls (2011–2015)
Tony Falvino (2016–2018)
Chris Williams (2018–2025)
William Lennie (2026–present)
Stadium
UNCG Soccer Stadium; Greensboro, North Carolina (1993–1996)
A.J. Simeon Stadium; High Point, North Carolina (1996–1999)
Macpherson Stadium; Browns Summit, North Carolina (2003–present)
Truist Sports Park; Winston-Salem, North Carolina 3 games (2009–2010)
Vert Stadium at High Point University; High Point, North Carolina 1 game (2010)
Truist Point; High Point, North Carolina 3 games (2021–2021)
Truist Sports Park; Bermuda Run, North Carolina (2024–2025)
M. Douglas Crater Stadium; Winston-Salem, North Carolina (2026–Present)
Average attendance
Attendance stats are calculated by averaging each team's self-reported home attendances from the historical match archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20100105175057/http://www.uslsoccer.com/history/index_E.html and Kenn.com https://kenn.com/blog/soccer/all-time-usl-third-division-attendance/, and https://kenn.com/blog/soccer/all-time-usl-league-two-attendance/.
Greensboro Dynamo
1993: NA Playoffs: 1,869
1994: NA Playoffs: 2,592
1995: 2,263
Carolina Dynamo
1996: 1,552 Playoffs: 2,187 or 1,787 Overall: 1,597 or 1,568
1997: 2,605 (10th in A-League) Playoffs: 1,533 Overall: 2,471
1999: 922
2000: 839
2001: 1,064 Playoffs: NA
2002: 910
2003: 732 Playoffs: NA
2004: 716 (6th in PDL) Playoffs: 948 Overall: 762
2005: 957 (4th in PDL)
2006: 1,460 (3rd in PDL) Playoffs: 1,300 Overall: 1,440
2007: 2,168 (3rd in PDL)
2008: 948 or 1,952 (4th in PDL)
2009: 863 or 1,048 (9th in PDL) Playoffs:NA
2010: 1,676 (4th in PDL) or 1,153 (7th in PDL)