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{{One source|date=April 2022}}{{about|the 1970s soccer team|the Revolutionary War personages in/from Boston|Minutemen}}
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{{Infobox football club
| clubname = Boston Minutemen
| image = [[File:BostonMinutemen.png|180px|logo]]
| fullname = Boston Minutemen
| nickname =
| founded = 1974
| dissolved = 1976
| 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]]
| capacity = 30,000 (Alumni) <br> 15,000 (Nickerson) <br> 61,000 (Foxboro) <br> N/A (Quincy) <br> N/A (Sargent)<br> 11,000 (McCoy)
| chairman = [[John Sterge]]
| 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
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==
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Shep Messing]] (1975)
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Mickey Cohen (soccer)|Mickey Cohen]] (1976)
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*{{flagicon|ENG}} [[John Coyne (footballer)|John Coyne]] (1974) [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/johncoyne.
*{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Geoff Davies (footballer)|Geoff Davies]] (1975–76) [http://home.att.net/~nasl/players.htm#D]
*{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Paddy Greenwood]] (1974
*{{flagicon|POR}} [[
*{{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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!Regular Season
!Playoffs
!Avg.
|-
|1974
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|Won Quarterfinal ([[Baltimore Comets|Baltimore]])<br>Lost Semifinal ([[Los Angeles Aztecs|Los Angeles]])
|9,642
|-
|[[1975 NASL Indoor tournament|1975]]
|NASL indoor
|1
|1
|—
|2
|4th, Region 2
|''Did not qualify''
|''N/A''
|-
|1975
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|Lost Quarterfinal ([[Miami Toros|Miami]])
|4,422
|-
|[[1976 NASL Indoor tournament|1976]]
|NASL indoor
|0
|2
|—
|0
|4th, East Regional
|''Did not qualify''
|''N/A''
|-
|1976
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|72
|5th, Atlantic Conference, Northern Division
|''Did
|2,581
|}
==
'''NASL Division Titles'''
*[[1974 North American Soccer League season|1974]]: Northern Division
*[[1975 North American Soccer League season|1975]]: Northern Division
'''NASL Leading Goalkeeper'''
*1975: [[Shep Messing]] ''(0.93 goals against avg.)''
'''All-Star Selections'''
*1974: [[Ade Coker]] ''(second team)''
*1974: [[Paddy Greenwood]] ''(honorable mention)''
*1974: [[Ian McKechnie]] ''(honorable mention)''
*1975: [[António Simões]] ''(first team)''
*1975: [[Wolfgang Sühnholz]] ''(honorable mention)''
*1976: [[Shep Messing]] ''(indoor All-Regional)''
'''Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame members'''
* 2019: [[Shep Messing]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hall of Famers |date=September 1, 2020|website=indoorsoccerhall.com |url=https://www.indoorsoccerhall.com/hall-of-famers |access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
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*[[New England Tea Men]]
==References==
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{{North American Soccer League (1966–85)}}
[[Category:Boston Minutemen| ]]
[[Category:Soccer clubs in Boston|M]]
[[Category:Soccer clubs in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:North American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams]]
[[Category:1974 establishments in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:1976 disestablishments in
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