The Xtreme Soccer League (XSL) is an indoor soccer league that began play in December 2008. Four teams from the former Major Indoor Soccer League are participating in the first XSL season. These teams are the Chicago Storm, Detroit Ignition, Milwaukee Wave, and New Jersey Ironmen. Other former MISL teams have joined the National Indoor Soccer League or Professional Arena Soccer League.The XSL officially launched on September 16, 2008 with a press conference in Milwaukee, WI. Brian Loftin is the XSL's first commissioner. Each team will play a 20 game schedule beginning in December and ending in late March. There will be no playoffs the first year.
On December 3, 2008 the XSL announced that Brine would supply the Triumph X 600 as the official match ball.
The New Jersey Ironmen are an indoor soccer team who plays in the Xtreme Soccer League. They originally joined the Major Indoor Soccer League for the 2007-08 season, although the MISL ceased operations a year later. They are now a part of the Xtreme Soccer League. The team plays at the Prudential Center, sharing the facility with the NHL's New Jersey Devils and the Seton Hall University men's basketball team. Omid Namazi, recognized twice as MISL Coach of the Year, is the coach of the team.
The Milwaukee Wave are the oldest continuously operating professional soccer team in North America. The team was founded on August 3, 1984 as a member of the American Indoor Soccer Association and has played in every season and incarnation of that league (see MISL). Milwaukee has hosted the 2003 and 2006 MISL All-Star Games. They are coached by Keith Tozer, who has coached them for 16 seasons and is the most successful coach in MISL history. He is assisted by Art Kramer. The Wave will play in the new XSL for the 2008/09 season
In April 2006, Greg Bibb, president of Hantz Group Sports and Entertainment, introduced the new Major Indoor Soccer League expansion team, the Detroit Ignition. The team plays at the Compuware Sports Arena in Plymouth Township, Michigan. The team began play in the 2006–2007 season. After the 2007–08 season, the MISL folded. Soon afterwards, the Ignition announced they were joining the new Xtreme Soccer League.
The Chicago Storm is a team in the Xtreme Soccer League that began play in the 2004-2005 season as a member of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The Storm played home games during its first two seasons at the UIC Pavilion on the west side of Chicago. The team moved its home games to the newly-built Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, a northwest suburb of Chicago, for the 2006-07 season. Former Chicago Sting and Chicago Fire soccer great Frank Klopas coached the team during its first two seasons, but he was replaced by Steve Morris for the 2006-07 season.