2025 Men’s Team
Roster TBA Spring 2025
USL League Two rosters feature many collegiate players, and rosters aren’t finalized until close to the start of the season.
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2024 Coaching Staff
Mike PayeHead Coach
Former Creighton University player and a two-time junior college national champion as both a player and a coaching staff member, Mike Paye has been named the third head coach in Peoria City’s young history.
Paye is preparing for his fourth year as the head coach at Clarke College, a NAIA school located in Dubuque, IA. Coming off a 3-12 campaign the previous year, Paye led the Pride to a 7-10-1 mark in his first season as a head coach in 2021, posting the team’s best record in seven years. Paye’s squads have continued to build on that foundation, posting back-to-back winning seasons in 2022 (9-4-3) and 2023 (7-5-4) for the first time in program history.
Success on the field is nothing new for Peoria City’s new coach. Paye won NJCAA national championships as a student-athlete (2012) and assistant coach (2016) at Tyler (Texas) Junior College. In between, he enjoyed a 2-year career at collegiate power Creighton, helping the Bluejays reach the NCAA Division I National Championship quarterfinals in 2014 and 2015.
Ryan WoodsideAssistant Coach
Eureka College head coach Ryan Woodside joins Peoria City in 2024.
Woodside is preparing for his third season as the head coach for the Red Devils. The Bloomington, Ill., native inherited a program that had been winless in each of the two seasons before his arrival. However, he has coached Eureka to 10 wins in the past two years, leading the Red Devils to the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament for the first time in the program’s history in 2022.
Following his high school career at Normal Community HS, Woodside played collegiately at NCAA Division III Hope College. After helping the Flying Dutchmen to a 14-3-1 record as a senior in 2018, he played professionally for one season in Sweden, helping Stöde IF earn promotion by winning the Swedish Division III Mellersta Norrland title.
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“Peoria will play home to future stars of American soccer.”
- Jim DeRose, Retired Bradley University Head Soccer Coach and Peoria City President
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