Southern Premier Soccer League

The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) had intended to introduce a NPSL Winter League, with initial operation in the 2010–2011 winter season. However the FC Tulsa folded at the end of the normal NPSL 2010 season, leaving the NPSL's South Central division with three teams, less than the minimum four required for a division.

The remaining NPSL South Central teams – Galveston Pirate SC, Houston-based Regals FC, Corpus Christi Fuel – founded the SPSL in September 2010, reaching out to a number of potential new teams to join the newly formed league. By month's end, the SPSL finalized a slate of six teams to start the season; the original survivors of the NPSL South Central division, plus Club América Soccer Academy Houston, Texas Lonestrikers from Nacogdoches, Texas, and a new Tulsa-based team, Tulsa Lobos FC.

The inaugural 2010–11 SPSL season ran from October 2 through March 26. Each team was to play 20 games during the regular season. Before the season ended, Texas Lonestrikers folded and Galveston Pirate SC, having reached a new agreement with the NPSL, withdrew from play. Regals FC won the inaugural season, with five of the six top goal scorers in the SPSL playing for that club.

Having ended its first season with just four teams, the SPSL continued to recruit new clubs for the 2011 spring season. Two additional teams were added in time for the season: the Rio Grande Valley Ocelots FC (continuing on from their summer 2010 season in the USL Premier Development League) and the Houston Hurricane (revival of a name last used in 1980 by a team playing in the North American Soccer League). Club América folded before the season finished. The Ocelots won the short 2011 Spring season, with a 9–1 record and a championship game victory over Regals FC.

The SPSL folded after completing a shortened 2011 Spring season.[1]