While the league added two teams for 2018 in California United FC and San Diego 1904 FC, it lost four teams-the aforementioned San Francisco Deltas, FC Edmonton and NCFC, chelsea jersey 2024/25 plus Indy Eleven; the last two of these teams moved to the USL. The NASL accused the USSF of colluding with Major League Soccer to protect its status as the sole top-flight soccer league in the United States, real madrid jersey 2024/25 citing a relationship under which MLS clubs are required to maintain affiliations or co-owned reserve teams in the USL. During that offseason, after the USSF pulled the NASL’s provisional Division II status due to not meeting its criteria, the NASL filed an antitrust lawsuit against the USSF.