Add Another Failed Season to Austin FC’s Increasingly Pitiful History

The Austin FC experience was never supposed to be this. Marrying America’s growing pro soccer obsession with the burgeoning, hip city of Austin – at the time, the largest U.S. market without major pro sports – was supposed to be kismet. A no-brainer, can’t-screw-it-up, paradigm-shifting kind of deal. How wrong we were. Six years in, the norm for Austin FC isn’t harmonious success, it’s sputtering ineptitude. The novelty and trendiness of the club’s early seasons have been thoroughly replaced by apathy and embarrassment as the club wraps up another failed season. 2026 was, without question, Austin FC’s worst campaign yet. For the fourth time in six seasons, the club missed the playoffs, and this time it wasn’t particularly close. Austin’s eight wins marked its fewest in an MLS season and its 14th-place Western Conference finish represents a new low for the franchise.

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