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Lorain County Leviathan Football Club is a semi-professional men's soccer club based in Lorain County, Ohio. The team was founded in 2025 and is led by an ownership group headed by Andrew McDonnell with the infrastructure run by the staff of the Lake Erie Crushers, a minor league baseball team that plays in the Frontier League.
It is set to begin play in 2026 as a member of USL League Two, an amateur league in the United States soccer league system, and home games will be played at ForeFront Field in Avon, sharing a home with the Crushers.
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On August 23, 2025, it was reported that North Ridgeville resident Andrew McDonnell (an ownership partner in Akron City FC) was heading up an ownership group that was in talks to start a USL League Two franchise for Lorain County to begin playing at the then-Crushers Stadium for the 2026 season., with an agreement reportedly being reached two days later.
On November 12, 2025, USL League Two officially announced the new Lorain County team would be joining the league for the 2026 season as part of its Great Forest Division and play its home games at the now-ForeFront Field. On November 24, 2025, Oberlin College men's soccer head coach Blake New was announced as the new team's inaugural head coach.
A name-the-team contest was held between four finalists (with crests readily made for each option), those finalists being Lorain County Blast FC, Lorain County FC, Lorain County Leviathan FC and Lorain County Quarrymen FC. Fan voting was held until December 1, with the Leviathan name and crest announced as the winner on December 9.
In March 2026, Lorain County Leviathan entered a commercial affiliation partnership with Scottish League One side, Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
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