The San Diego Nomads were a low-budget semi-pro/pro soccer club that competed during the late 1980’s, a period viewed as the Dark Ages for outdoor professional soccer in the United States. From 1986 to 1989, U.S. National Team players like Marcelo Balboa and Paul Caligiuri played for the Nomads alongside high school players and moonlighting San Diego Sockers indoor players such as Paul Dougherty and Paul Wright.
The San Diego Toros played one season in the North American Soccer League during the summer of 1968. Playing out of Balboa Stadium, the Toros finished 18-8-6 in 1968 and accumulated the highest point total (186) among the 17 NASL clubs in the league’s standings table. After losing to the Atlanta Chiefs in a two-leg final, the Toros went out of business at the end of the 1968 season.
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