USL Championship · USA · Round 1

North Carolina FC
2 - 3 Full time
Birmingham Legion FC

First Horizon Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park · Cary, North Carolina

Lineups

North Carolina FC3-4-2-1
JM1McGuire
BW27Washington
PC5Craig
FS66Sundstrom
RM14↓90'Mentzingen
CM17↓70'Martin
MM15Maldonado
PB11Burner
PD8⚽↓79'Dolabella
AA19↓70'Al-Qaq
OA9↓79'Anderson
FD57Delgado
SS43Suarez
JR13Rufe
AP20↓80'Paterson
ST2↓80'Turnbull
MM33Mensah
TP15Pasher
EM19↓90'Martinez
EL17Laszo
DT7⚽×2↓86'Trejo
RD9⚽↓87'Damus
Birmingham Legion FC5-4-1

North Carolina FC substitutes

13 Louis Perez 6.4 ↑70'
7 Evan Conway 7.1 ⚽↑70'
16 Rodrigo Da Costa 6.3 ↑79'
26 Adam Luckhurst 6.9 ↑79'
10 Jaden Servania ↑90'
24 Trevor Mulqueen
20 Conor Donovan
44 Raheem Sommersall

Coach: John Bradford

Birmingham Legion FC substitutes

27 Erik Centeno ↑80'
6 Samuel McIllhatton ↑80'
21 Sebastian Tregarthen ↑86'
10 Tabort Etaka Preston ↑87'
25 Roman Torres ↑90'
1 Matt Van Oekel
8 Kobe Hernandez-Foster

Coach: Mark Briggs

Match events

4'Stephen Turnbull
40'Pedro Dolabella assist: Rafael Mentzingen 1 - 0⚽
45'Ronaldo Damus assist: Enzo Martinez 1 - 1⚽
Second half
47'Enzo Martinez
50'Jake Rufe
56'Daniel Trejo assist: Tyler Pasher 1 - 2⚽
57'Collin Martin
63'Daniel Trejo assist: Ronaldo Damus 1 - 3⚽
70'↑ Louis Perez ↓ Collin Martin⇄
70'↑ Evan Conway ↓ Ahmad Al-Qaq⇄
79'↑ Adam Luckhurst ↓ Oalex Anderson⇄
79'↑ Rodrigo Da Costa ↓ Pedro Dolabella⇄
80'↑ Samuel McIllhatton ↓ AJ Paterson⇄
80'↑ Erik Centeno ↓ Stephen Turnbull⇄
85'Paco Craig
86'↑ Sebastian Tregarthen ↓ Daniel Trejo⇄
87'↑ Tabort Etaka Preston ↓ Ronaldo Damus⇄
90+3'Evan Conway
90+7'↑ Jaden Servania ↓ Rafael Mentzingen⇄
90+8'↑ Roman Torres ↓ Enzo Martinez⇄
90+9'Evan Conway 2 - 3⚽

Where to watch

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Match details

CompetitionUSL Championship
Kick-off (UTC)Friday, 11 July 2025, 23:30 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

4North Carolina FC wins3Draws3Birmingham Legion FC wins

10 past meetings on record. Biggest North Carolina FC win: North Carolina FC 1–0 Birmingham Legion FC (2020). Biggest Birmingham Legion FC win: North Carolina FC 0–2 Birmingham Legion FC (2020).

2 Oct 2025Birmingham Legion FC 1 - 1 North Carolina FCUSL Championship
6 Oct 2024Birmingham Legion FC 2 - 3 North Carolina FCUSL Championship
14 Apr 2024North Carolina FC 1 - 1 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship
26 Sep 2020Birmingham Legion FC 1 - 2 North Carolina FCUSL Championship
3 Sep 2020Birmingham Legion FC 1 - 2 North Carolina FCUSL Championship
15 Aug 2020North Carolina FC 0 - 2 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship
1 Aug 2020North Carolina FC 1 - 0 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship
23 Oct 2019North Carolina FC 2 - 3 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship Playoff
14 Jul 2019Birmingham Legion FC 1 - 0 North Carolina FCUSL Championship
18 May 2019North Carolina FC 0 - 0 Birmingham Legion FCUSL Championship