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Dynamo Reserves

The Houston Dynamo Reserves compete in Major League Soccer's Reserve Division, entering its fourth season in 2008.

The MLS Reserve Division allows teams to provide meaningful, competitive matches to players outside of the main lineup, giving them important, game experience. Each MLS team fields a reserve squad to compete in a 14-team single table, with the champion earning a $20,000 bonus. Reserve teams will play 12 games during the season, playing each conference opponent twice.

The Dynamo Reserves will play home games at the Carl Lewis Track and Field Complex on the campus of the University of Houston.

Coached by assistant coach John Spencer, the Dynamo Reserves finished third in 2006 and 11th in 2007.

MLS Reserve Division Format:

  • Each team will play 12 games (6 home and 6 away), two against each conference opponent.

  • A total of 20 eligible players for the home team and 20 players for the visiting team may be placed on a club's game roster for any Reserve Division game with each team permitted to make up to six (6) substitutions.

  • Suspensions attributable to yellow and red cards issued in Reserve Division games shall only be imposed for future Reserve Division matches and not for games during the MLS regular season. Conversely, suspensions attributable to yellow and red cards issued during MLS regular season games shall not apply to Reserve Division matches.

  • Any player who receives four yellow cards during the Reserve Division season shall be suspended from the next Reserve Division game in which he may appear.

  • No player shall play more than 120 minutes in a reserve team match and any preceding match(es) that occur within a 60-hour period. Injury time is not considered a part of a player's maximum number of minutes played (e.g., if a player enters a game at halftime and the referee adds two minutes of stoppage time to the end of the second half, the player will be considered to have played 45 minutes since the two minutes of stoppage time is essentially added to make up for 'lost' time).

  • A Reserve Division call-up or "guest player" with an MLS team may be eligible to appear in an MLS Reserve Division Game provided that he is properly registered with U.S. Soccer.

    • 2008 Dynamo Reserves Schedule & Results
    date opponenttime (CT) / result Location
    April
    04/20 - Sunday @ Los Angeles 2-1 W Home Depot Center
    May
    05/04 - Sunday Chivas USA 1-1 T Robertson Stadium
    05/11 - Sunday Colorado 4-0 W Robertson Stadium
    05/23 - Friday @ San Jose 3-1 W Stanton Field
    June
    06/22 - Sunday @ Colorado 3-2 W Dick's Sporting Goods Park
    July
    07/04 - Friday @ Real Salt Lake 9:30 a.m Quinn's Junction
    August
    08/17 - Sunday Real Salt Lake 10:00 a.m Carl Lewis T&F Complex
    September
    09/21 - Sunday San Jose 10:00 a.m Carl Lewis T&F Complex
    October
    10/19 - Sunday Los Angeles 10:00 a.m Carl Lewis T&F Complex
    10/26 - Sunday @ Chivas USA 12:00 p.m Home Depot Center
    TBD
    TBA @ FC Dallas TBA Pizza Hut Park
    TBA FC Dallas TBA Carl Lewis T&F Complex