The San Jose Earthquakes are San Jose, California's Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise. The Earthquakes won the MLS Cup in 2001 and 2003. The Earthquakes play their home games at Spartan Stadium on the South Campus of San Jose State University. They were known as the San Jose Clash from 1994 to 1999.
The San Jose Earthquakes was also the name of a North American Soccer League (NASL) team from 1974 to 1982 and a Western Soccer Alliance team from 1985 to 1988. The NASL San Jose Earthquakes were known as the Golden Bay Earthquakes from 1983 to 1984. The team also played indoor soccer in the orginial MISL. The name Earthquakes originally came from a newspaper contest in the San Jose Mercury News.
The SanJose Earthquakes was a professional soccer club located in SanJose, California that participated in Major League Soccer from 1996 to 2005.
The last owner of the SanJose Earthquakes, Anschutz Entertainment Group, announced on December 15, 2005 that the team was moving to Houston for the 2006 season.
The SanJose Earthquakes logo and wordmark were created by Terry Smith Creations (official website), the same Sunnyvale, California based graphic design company that created the logos for the SanJose Sharks, the SanJose SaberCats and the SanJose Stealth, among many other clients.
The SanJose Earthquakes was a professional soccer club located in SanJose, California that participated in Major League Soccer from 1996-2005.
SanJose Earthquakes was also the name of the North American Soccer League (NASL) team that played from 1974 to 1984 (although the team was named the Golden Bay Earthquakes from 1983 to 1984) and in the Western Soccer Alliance from 1985 to 1988.
The MLS SanJose Earthquakes logo was created by Terry Smith Creations (official website), the same Sunnyvale, California based graphic design company that created the logos for the SanJose Sharks, the SanJose SaberCats and the SanJose Stealth, among many other clients.