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clubname = Boston Minutemen|▼
image = [[File:BostonMinutemen.png|180px|logo]]|▼
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nickname = |▼
founded = 1974 |▼
stadium = [[Alumni Stadium]] <br> [[Nickerson Field]] <br> [[Foxboro Stadium]] <br> [[Veterans Memorial Stadium (Quincy)|Veterans Memorial Stadium]] <br> [[New Bedford High School|Sargent Field]] <br> [[McCoy Stadium]]|▼
| dissolved = 1976
capacity = 30,000 (Alumni) <br> 15,000 (Nickerson) <br> 61,000 (Foxboro) <br> NA (Quincy) <br> NA (Sargent)<br> 11,000 (McCoy) |▼
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chairman = [[John Sterge]] |▼
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manager = [[Hubert Vogelsinger]] |▼
league = [[North American Soccer League (1968–1984)|NASL]] |▼
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The '''Boston Minutemen''' were
Portuguese legend [[Eusébio]] played for the Minutemen in 1975, as did famed [[United States men's national soccer team|American]] player [[Shep Messing]].
The Minutemen started well, winning the Northern Division title in their first season and drawing over 9000 fans a match to Alumni Stadium, good for 5th highest in the league. They lost in the playoffs to eventual league champion [[Los Angeles Aztecs]]. When Eusébio came to Boston in 1975,
For the 1976 season, team owner John Sterge announced the Minutemen would relocate again, this time to [[Harvard Stadium]], but that deal collapsed before the start of the season and the team ended up playing in a hodge-podge of grounds throughout [[Massachusetts]]: [[Schaefer Stadium]] in Foxborough,
By this time Sterge was having financial difficulties (which ended in action by the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]]) and was compelled to sell off many of his players, including Eusebio, who went to the eventual champions [[Toronto Metros-Croatia]]. Attendance plummeted, the Minutemen lost their last 12 matches
==Former players==
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*{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Paddy Greenwood]] (1974, 1976) [https://web.archive.org/web/20080504120506/http://home.att.net:80/~nasl/players.htm#G]
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[Eusébio]] (1975)
*{{flagicon|SCO}} [[Ian McKechnie]] (1974) [http://home.att.net/~nasl/players.htm#M] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909120055/http://home.att.net/~nasl/players.htm#M |date=September 9, 2009 }}
==Year-by-year==
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|4th, Region 2
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|4th, East Regional
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|72
|5th, Atlantic Conference, Northern Division
|''Did
|2,581
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