The new team will be part of USL League Two, a “pre-professional” soccer league in the U.S. and Canada. Like the Pickles, it’s for college players to train and compete in the summer while maintaining their collegiate eligibility.

The Portland Pickles are bringing a new pre-professional soccer team to Portland this spring. The Pickles, a collegiate wood-bat baseball team, said the soccer team would play in USL League Two, a league that already has eight other teams dotted across the Northwest and more than 100 teams nationwide.

I don’t want to get into financial specifics, but we are confident and excited about taking Rain into WPSL PRO in 2026,” Casey Katofsky wrote in an email sent by Freemyer.

The Portland Pickles, a collegiate baseball team, will debut a new soccer team through the United Soccer League 2 in May 2025, with more information to be revealed in February.

A new soccer team will be making a home in Portland in 2025.The Portland Pickles announced the arrival of a new United Soccer League 2 team that will officially