League History

The Greater Boston Soccer League was started in 1994, formed originally from the old Massachusetts Inter-Company Soccer League. The Inter-Company League included many of the areas biggest companies playing soccer as an employee activity on weeknights in the summer. Teams included Digital, Polaroid, Raytheon, John Hancock, Hewlitt-Packard, DRI/McGraw-Hill, AGFA, Badger Engineers, State Street, Biogen, ENSR, Wang, and more.

 As the league became more competitive, many teams began recruiting from outside the company ranks. Teams were no longer really representative of the companies for whom they were playing, and new teams were looking to get into the league that were not necessarily “company” teams but exhibited the same level of sportsmanship and spirit as our existing teams. In order to welcome this potential expansion, the league identity was changed to the Greater Boston Soccer League. The first year of GBSL offered both corporate and club conferences of play, and added 8 new teams including the Irish Village Club who continue to field teams in the league today.

 As the summer league grew in the mid-90’s, some teams began to express interest in playing into the fall after the summer season ended. The first fall season included a modest four teams playing round-robin format on Sunday mornings in Arlington. Eventually the fall Sunday session grew into a spring Sunday session as well, leading to the league’s current three season format. Some of the summer men’s division clubs play in other competitive leagues in the spring and fall, thus the GBSL plays only co-ed during these two seasons while expanding to include a men’s division during the summer session.

 New teams and players are always welcome, and the league mission remains to provide an opportunity for anyone looking to play soccer in a friendly and recreational yet competitive environment to be able to do so. With a home base in Lexington, the GBSL has always sought to play on nice fields and ensure experienced, qualified officials for games. Divisions of play are always well balanced leading to close games and great fun, and ultimately to exciting playoffs with t-shirts for all champions!

				Past Champions
10 Spring	C1  Hugh O’Neill’s		10 Summer	M Boston Gunners		10 Fall	C1 New Landing
	C2  Billerica United			C1 New Landing			C2 Gang Green
	CASA Middlesex Utd			C2 Gheto Boyz
09 Spring	C1  Hugh O’Neill’s		09 Summer	M Boston Gunners		09 Fall	C1A Shopper's Cafe
	C2  Gheto Boyz			C1 Shoppers Café			C1B Billerica Utd
				C2 Glazed Ham			C2 Gang Green
08 Fall	C1  Shoppers Café		08 Summer	M    Analog		08 Spring	C1  Shoppers Café
	C2  Gheto Boyz			C1  Shoppers Café			C2  Quincy United
				C2  Stella IV FC
07 Fall	C1  Lobos United		07 Summer	M    BSSL United		07 Spring	C1  Daedalus
	C2  Glazed Ham			C1  Lobos United			C2  Quincy United
				C2  Gheto Boyz
				C3  Stella IV FC
06 Fall	C1  Costellos		06 Summer	M1  Phoenix Landing Gunners		06 Spring	C1  Daedalus
	C2  Gheto Boyz			M2  Concord United			C2  Boston United
				C1  Toros Locos
				C2  FC Happy Hour
				C3  ENSR
05 Fall	C1  Billerica United		05 Summer	M   BSSL United		05 Spring	C1  Billerica United
	C2  Loco United			C1  Hugh O’Neill’s			C2  Glazed Ham
				C2  Toros Locos
				C3  FC Happy Hour
04 Fall	C1  Billerica United		04 Summer	M   BSSL United		04 Spring	C1  Billerica United
	C2  Joe Sent Me			C1  Kickdogs			C2  Irish Village
				C2  Quincy United
				C3  The Kids
03 Fall	C1  Billerica United		03 Summer	M1  BSSL United		03 Spring	Hugh O’Neill’s
	C2  The Fellowship			M2  Green FC
				C1  Kickdogs
				C2  Costellos FC
				C3  Methuen United
02 Fall	C1  Billerica United		02 Summer	M   Commonwealth FC		02 Spring	Billerica United
	C2  Biogen			C1  Kickdogs
				C2  Analog
				C3  Bay State Blues